You know, things have just seemed so over whelming for me for so long and a good part of that is having absolutely no downtime. What little time I have off from work I am doing housework or running someone somewhere or doing something for someone else...Today I planned a me day. This is the only day off I have in 10 days so I was bound and determined to not do any more than really necessary.

I sat out on the patio and had breakfast.
I finished reading Lisa Gardner's Alone.
I sat and dreamed through my fabric and thread stash to find something pretty for the Biscornu I am making for the Needle and Thread Board.

Then I had to get ready to take DS#2 to a parade where he was in the color guard for the Civil Air Patrol squadron that he belongs too. I dropped him off and headed for the end of the parade route. I did a little shopping at Big Lots and got some great beads and buttons to use in my stitching and when I got outside I could hear the sirens from the start of the parade as it got toward where we were. I got to see my son march as a color guard for the first time. They looked so nice and straight and tall. I was once again over whelmed to the point that I was finding it hard to swallow. My father was a color guard for his American Legion Post and for the VFW he belonged to for more years than I can count. I took one look at my son and could tell that my father would have been so very, very proud of him too. And I felt another torch being passed too. There have been so many of them this year. This turned out to really be a me day. :-)

The pictures are of them marching, The guard with Governor Fletcher and his wife and of the squadron in front of their now dismantled float that won best of show!