This is how to fix disappointment

So I disappointed D by not having everything together to register his scooter ... the scooter that he worked SO hard to get ... spending weekend after weekend redoing some assholes basement as a barter to get it ... labored over it for hours and hours to get it in working order ... multiple trips to the DMV ... only to disappoint once again for not having the right stuff ... thinking everything was in order and sending him and Curly Top to spend 4 hours at the DMV to be turned away yet again ... and God bless him that he spent 4 hours there with a VERY unhappy 2 year old ...

I woke up this morning after sleeping 12 hours and still terribly sick to my stomach ... but my goal was to come home with tags so he could "ride free" as he so often professed ...

I sat on those cold steel benches watching the flashing news board just waiting for them to call E70 ... I knew everything was together this time and I knew I wasn't going to walk out of there without tags ... it was my purpose of the day ...

I've never made a happier call (well it was pretty great calling people to tell them we were getting married ... or that we were having a baby) but on this blazing hot Monday morning as D was about to go into a very important job interview I couldn't have been happier to call and say, "Sweetie ... you can ride free now ... you have tags for your scooter!!"

It took him all of 6 minutes to have his helmet on and get those babies on the bike once I got home ... and even though all I wanted to do was get back in bed ... I was more than happy to snap a few photos of his freedom ride!!