More musings

Getting your car titled here is a ridiculous experience. And after three separate trips, only my car has been done successfully. We are just gonna roll the dice on D's car as his lease is up in a few months. This is the first state we've lived in where you only have a tag in the back. As the lady told me "you can put whatever you want in the front honey." Which really means you can put an LSU plate on your car.

Totally unrelated: We just bought this for all our arts and crafts in our den and I LOVE it

The whole time we were in VA I lamented 'why can't the parking spots be angled. I'm such a better parker on the angle.' So of course here the spots are angled. Turns out, that is super annoying cause I am ALWAYS going the wrong way. Perhaps I should learn to be content with what I have....though I wish I had straight spots.

Not that I am a huge drinker, but it totally cracks me up that you can buy liquor everywhere here.  Target. Wal-Mart. Walgreens. 

 The girls enjoying strawberry daiquiris (clearly without alcohol)

It is hot here. I realize that it is hot almost everywhere but I just want to re-emphasize it. Again. Temps in the 90's with heat index over 100 everyday is too darn hot. And I am such a sweaty person. I am way past sticking to my leather seats. I am sliding around on them. So so sweaty. So so gross.

Speaking of blazing hot. The girls are taking swim lessons right now. They have finished their first week and have one more to go. They LOVE it. Mr. Eric is their teacher and he is super good with them. As an aside I think that he looks like Ludacris. The only downside is that it is outside and I may have mentioned that it is so hot. Especially just sitting there with no breeze and lots of concrete around.

At swim lessons

Oh how I miss being just minutes from a Target and Bed Bath and Beyond. Sigh. I miss my weekly (or more) trips.  I have only been to Target twice here. Such a sad situation.

I recently looked up the school calendar and was SHOCKED to see that school starts August 9/10. (The pre-K divides the first two days up by only the girls go one day and boys the other. ) Dude. That is so early. We basically have a month of summer left. Which is a weird feeling. Cause by Friday the girls and I are definitely tired of just hanging out with each other. August seems far away then. But this year they are going to be going 5 days a week from 8 to 3:30. Wearing uniforms and riding the bus!  When I think about that, August seems way too close. Where did my babies go?

Brooke at the library.  She looks so cute in this picture!

I have made a new friend! Hooray for me! We have had one outing, but it seemed successful.  She is super nice.  Like so nice that I think I may need to improve myself a tad.  I am trying to be much more proactive in the friend making area (Amber I tam taking tips from you!)....which is totally not my thing as I like to wait to be invited to stuff. But as it is a small town,  I am for sure going to have to worm my way in.  Fortunately, our weekends have been busy between our "old" Exxon friends and our very nice neighbors. I think we have hit babysitter jackpot as our neighbors have a daughter about to be in tenth grade and she is awesome w the girls and they have already requested that we go out so they can stay w Kelsey.

Audrey at the library.  She always wants to go sit with the big bear and this day there was this green alligator and a little butterfly.  She was in heaven,

One advantage of hanging out all day together is I get to hear the funniest conversations between the girls. Here is a little snippet that just cracked me up for some reason.  I am sure it will lose something in translation and with all my parentheticals, but I'll try to do it justice:

In the car driving we pass a prison group out picking up trash. Brooke says "oooh. Audrey don't you want to do that one day?" (as an aside, the two worst things are being a litterbug or being a smoker, so those guys in their spiffy orange jumpsuits seem like heroes to the girls). Audrey replies "no Brooke. Remember we are going to be up front and run the state" (last week we went to the state Capitol and saw where the house and senate work and the girls decided that that was going to be their job and that they wanted to have the good seats at the front where the speaker and others that I don't know sit).  To which Brooke replies "no Audrey we can do both!"

In the aforementioned chambers at the state capitol.