of soccer games and a woeful postal tale...

So, at the beginning of this soccer season Caleb's team won tickets to the FC Dallas season opener. We were the only family that ended up going but we still had a great time. We arrived with fingers crossed HOPING the kids would hang in and enjoy the event (because previous professional sporting events with all the kids has proved to be not so pleasant...) and somehow, by the grace of God, they did...and as a bonus, Lynn was well behaved too. It was a Christmas miracle on March 30th. However, our end-of-March Christmas miracle came to an abrupt halt when it was time to head out to the parking lot...hot and tired makes for a pissy bunch of boys (both small AND big)...surprisingly Molly kept her wits about her and I managed to keep all my bitchy comments to myself (for the most part). Anyhoo, despite the parking lot melt downs, everyone had a really good time, so much so it has Lynn thinking about some season tickets.

Unfortunately my woeful postal tale is my own fault...remember back when I mentioned I was doing Regina's note card swap? Well I got my cards made and in the mail on the 29th. I forgot to take pictures or include return postage at the time, but I was considering it a victory since I even got the cards made and in the mail on time. Flash forward to last Friday when I opened my mailbox only to find said envelope returned to me because there was no postage affixed. That's right, no pictures, no return postage AND no regular postage. It was a trifecta of idiocy on my part! However, the silver lining in all of this is that I got to take my pictures after all:



They're not what I had originally intended to make but I think they turned out nicely nevertheless. The original plan was to use bits of maps as the base and carve a little car or truck stamp to emboss and color...well, that was the plan anyway. I soon discovered carving stamps (or most anything these days) can only be accomplished when Molly is unconscious or off-site because that little girl wants to be right in the middle of whatever her mother is doing (another fine example of karma coming back around). Ahem, my plan changed and instead I started digging through the Library of Congress' Flickr pages for old timey car photos. To my delight I found this happy little group. I printed them on transparencies, mounted them over map bits and attached them to the card based I made. I thought it would be cute to make little highway signs for the information on back. I should've taken more time making the signs edges uniform but time got away from me and well, they are what the are and they didn't make it to the swap anyway so I have five available are on their way to the swap (lucky for me there have been some international postal delays!).

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Completely unrelated, but how cute are these? And there's free UPS shipping too.