Funny story.

Tonight was our friend Ed's Eagle Court of Honor. Brian went early as he is the Scoutmaster and had some getting ready to do. Me and the boys went later.

I was running late. I HATE to be late for things. It's totally unacceptable to me. So I was speeding on this one stretch of road in the neighborhood. I rarely speed.

I knew he was going to pull me over as soon as the cop car turned a corner in front of me. The lights came on and I was already pulling over. He pulled his car up to me and we both rolled down windows. Stephen asked if I was going to jail and if he would live with just Daddy. The cop said, "Two beautiful children in the car and going 10 over the speed limit?" I apologized. I mean I WAS speeding. In a neighborhood no less! MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I felt terrible. I tend to feel terrible. He was very nice to me though, did not give me a ticket and told me to have a good day but slow down.

We got to the Court of Honor in plenty of time, of course. Our friend Ed is pretty cool. Cool enough that the Mayor of our city was at the Court of Honor. I got to meet him, he's related to my friend and his family. My boys and the Mayor's kids played. Fun stuff. We also got to meet Mark, the police officer who travels with the mayor. He was introduced as "works in my office and travels with me". I think that means "security". He had the security look to him. But was super friendly.

Mark was friendly enough that when he was in our row (seated right behind the mayor of course) my boys wanted to sit right next to him. I had to get up to hand out some programs. (I made the programs, they were cool looking, I just got Publisher.) As I walk by I hear my kids grilling Mark, "Are you the policeman who pulled Mommy over?" "No, I'm not, I would not pull your mommy over" "will she go to jail?" "No she will not go to jail" And then Ethan, "You DID put us mommy in jail!" "Nope, your mommy will not be going to jail"

Oh children! I do love them so.

Mark was concerned, being a super cool officer type. He wanted to make sure I didn't get a ticket and that the officer who pulled me over was nice. He told me that it was probably my attitude that kept me from a ticket. Apparently lots of people are rude to the cops. That totally confuses me. But my cop didn't look like he was ever planning on giving me a ticket. It did make me wonder though, could the mayor get me out of a ticket?


In other news:
We saw Ponyo today. It was crazy good. The artwork was stunning. Interestingly my favorite art was in the opening credits. But it was all really good. I highly recomend it. It's not like other Disney movies.

Stephen starts school next week. Everyone else went back this week. He's very confused about that, why he didn't start with all his friends. It's going to be fine of course.