College

We've had several discussions at our house this afternoon about going to college. Taylor received her "cow" check in the mail today. She was excited about it. She called her Papaw Donny to thank him for sending it to her and to tell him that she's putting it into her college fund. She also told him that she wanted to use part of it to buy herself a car when she turns 16. (I didn't tell you that it was a golden calf??) She wants a "purple car with no top on it." (ha!) Anyway, she's had lots of questions about college. Like, "will it be fun?" Maybe. "Do I go to college before I go to high school or after?" After. "Do you graduate from college?" Yes. "Then will I have two graduations?" Yes, one from high school and then one from college. "Will you be there when I graduate?" Yes. (I'm thinking gosh, I hope so. Life is so uncertain!) "Will Emma and Daddy watch me too?" Yes. "Will I get one of those rolled up pieces of paper?" You mean a diploma? "Yes." Yes, you will. "Will I read it when I get home?" Probably not. :)

By this time she was in bed tonight and I think she finally asked all that she could think of before my last kiss and goodnight.



On Monday mornings I find myself thinking "Oh my gosh, it's already Monday, where did the weekend go?" Then on Friday I'm thinking "Oh my gosh, it's already Friday, where did the week go?" I know that's what I'm going to be saying when she does graduate from high school and college; "Oh my gosh, it was just yesterday that she was 5 and asking me if she was going to get one of those rolled up pieces of paper! Where did the time go?" Sob...Sob... I think I feel like the time is flying by maybe because I'm not working right now (outside of the home anyway). Because when I was working I remember still feeling that way about the weekend but certainly not about the week! The week would drag on for a solid month it seemed.

I've been having a rough time the last couple months with Taylor growing up on me all of a sudden. First Kindergarten and I'm going "What am I supposed to do with myself now?" and then the front tooth falls out, next the "ALMOST" ear piercing saga and now we're discussing college and what it all means. Somebody needs to slow this truck down!! -huh, that sounded really redneck, didn't it? Occasionally I catch myself coming out with something like that. Doesn't bother me too much though, just lets me know I've not forgotten my roots. :) Like the other night at our friend's house when we were carving the pumpkin, we were talking about possums and I was telling them a story about one being on our back porch right after Nathan and I married and Nathan was going to kill it so I asked him if he wanted me to get his gun and he said no, you can't shoot a gun in the city limits. After saying this to them I come out with "I'd never lived in the city limits so I didn't know..." I didn't think anything of it but they thought it was a hoot. After hearing them laugh I realized...there come them roots again!



Emma had school today. I'm sure she enlightened them with something. On the way to school I looked back at her in the rear view mirror and she was picking her nose...(a favorite past time of hers these days)...and I asked her to stop. She says "You can pick your nose and you can pick your friends and you can pick your friends nose too!" ha! I said "I don't think that's quite how it goes and please don't try to pick your friend's nose too." She had to talk to Papaw Donny tonight too. Bless his heart, he never understands anything she says. When I got the phone back and said "did you know what she was..." "Not a word" he said. ha! Of course with her you sometimes have to put it together in your mind what she's saying. I think she was trying to tattle on me to him because she said "My mommy took my pwant (plant) away fwom me today because I not mind to her and I watuh it too much." She didn't mind me when I was telling her "DO NOT water that plant again, it's overflowing!" She just kept right on pouring. So her plant had to go outside and out of her reach. I'm sure her Papaw Donny was just saying "yeah, yeah, yeah" ha!

Did any of you see America's Funniest Home Videos last night? They were showing some different clips of people dancing and acting silly and there was this one clip of this girl on there that looked JUST LIKE Aunt Laura! I had to keep rewinding it and playing it over and over. I would have sworn that it was her. It was so weird! I used my cell phone to video the TV playing the clip and I emailed the video to Laura. I also took still pictures of the TV paused on her face to send to her too. She emailed me back today saying that it was freaky how much it looked like her but that she didn't remember doing that or recognize the surroundings so it probably wasn't her. I'll email some of you the video and pictures I took of it and see if you think it looks like her. The video is funny...the girl has her faded navy sweats stuffed with pillows to make huge breasts and a gigantic butt and she's dancing around with this serious look on her face. -sounds like Laura too! See why I thought it was her!? :) Here is one of the pictures I took of it. The clarity isn't good since the picture is of my tv screen but you can still kind of see it well enough to tell that it looks like Laura.



Laura makes her debut on AFV!!