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Miss South Carolina
Not sure I can comment on this as she was my state’s representative:
Question:
Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?
Miss South Carolina’s Answer:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.
Generation to generation
There were two pictures taken today that had some sentimental value to me.
The first is a picture of three generations of sisters. The eldest is my mom and her sister. The second is myself and my sister and the third set is of course my two girls. From left to right it is Lexi, me, Emma, Heather, my aunt and my mom. As you can see, it was at the end of the day and my girls are quite tired but I’m sure we will cherish this picture for awhile. I think it’s quite possible one day we could do a picture of four generations of sisters…that would definitely be unique.
The second picture is from us leaving the birthday party today. Emma really didn’t want to leave S, her cousin that is one year younger than her. So S ran out to say one last bye. The picture is of them talking at the door right before we left. This completely reminds me of my cousin and I. The two of us were only 6 days apart and until we were in our “mid-teens”, we were quite inseparable when we were together. We live 8 hours apart and always spent every minute together at my great-grandmother’s when my family travelled up there twice a year. What really made this one bring up the memory is this is at Scott’s grandmother’s house and that old metal screen door was very similar to my great-grandmother’s. It makes me smile every time I see that picture.
Mommy Talk addition
Tonight I have a picture to back up this one. We were on the way to a birthday party and Lexi pipes up, “Daddy, it’s ok, Daddy’s, it’s ok.” We look back and Lexi has taken a bite out of the birthday card which led to me saying:
“Lexi, you ate the birthday card! You don’t eat birthday cards, that’s not nice!”
August 28, 1992 – September 14, 1992
OK, this is going to be a “series” of journal entries. There are several posts on one or two guys that need to be posted together. So here goes…this is REALLY long so you’ll have to “read more” to get the whole thing.
Nice Day
We had a nice day today. FIL came and got the kids and I headed to get my aunt. We went clothes shopping for about 5 hours in 3 different stores. She got a lot of really good deals for my cousin’s girlfriend and I had a great time picking out stuff and not spending money on it! I couldn’t leave empty handed of course and ended up with stuff for the house. I got new bath rugs, shower curtain, vase for the dining room, picture for Emma’s room, a pillow…oh, and a new purse. I actually had a really, really good time with her.
I never thought her and I had much in common but I found out we both like shopping yet are quite indecisive, hence the long shopping trip, we both are weight-conscious and don’t find it extremely hard to moderate what we eat (unlike my mom, sister and grandmother), and we both love peanut butter. Small, random facts, but I think they count.
We got done shopping about the same time Scott woke up from working last night so I drove my aunt to meet up with my mom and I went home. Scott and I headed to get the girls. Scott had slept so long though, he was back off to work about an hour later. Mom, Dad, Heather and my aunt all came over this evening and cooked steaks on the grill, went swimming and then we all went out for ice cream.
Speaking of moderating my food, the past two days with my aunt her has sacrificed any idea of a diet. I had been down 1/2 lb below goal at one point this week so let myself have more than I have been lately but I think today put me over the edge. All ending with a peanut butter and hot fudge sundae at the ice cream place. Ice cream is definitely my Achilles’ heel. So hopefully I’ll get back on track on Monday.
I don’t think I have much to report on besides that. After preparing for Sunday School tomorrow morning, I’ve been trying to pick some more “Vintage Amy” posts this evening and I literally have been laughing out loud to myself. At 14 it was simply boys, boys, boys. Geesh.
Playtime Conversations
These are all taken while Emma and I are playing doctor with Polly Pocket characters. She was the dr and I was the nurse.
Emma: The dolls are falling down! This is a silly situation!
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Emma: Put these high heels on. She’s going to look so high-heely.
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Me: OK, dr, we’ve seen all our patients. What should we do?
Emma: I don’t know
Me: I think we should go shopping.
Emma (coming out of character): Uh, mommy, doctors don’t go shopping.
Me: Well then what should I do?
Emma: You should go arrange stickers. Do you know what arrange means? It means to put stuff out.
Me: Is that what nurses are supposed to do?
Emma: Yes
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Me: What is wrong with Polly, doctor?
Emma (out of character): um, mommy, what is wrong with her?
Me (out of character and with my hand on my chin): the flu
Emma: duhflu?
Me (laughing): No, the flu.
Emma: Can we just call it duhflu?
Me: Yes, that’s fine.
Emma (back in character): Ok, Polly has duhflu
It’s the weekend!
Last night we ended up going out to eat with my Mom, aunt and sister. It was sort of girls night out thing. The local restaurant was extremely busy and we ended up ordering while we were still waiting for a table. Our food came out right before we sat down so it actually worked out pretty nicely. Sit down and there’s your food. Lexi fell asleep after she ate though. Which was nice for the restaurant but then she woke up at home right after 9 and didn’t want to go back to sleep until 11:30 or so. I had planned to touch up my hair and finish cleaning the house but I had to lay down with her in my bed to convince her to go back to sleep and I didn’t wake up until 3:30 this morning. So now I’m sitting here doing my hair, trying to get ready before FIL picks up the girls for the day.
Then my orders are to take my aunt shopping for my cousin’s girlfriend who apparently doesn’t have much support from her family so my aunt tries to fill in the gaps. Me, go shopping? Why, yes, I can help! So today should be fun. The only bad part is my aunt is extremely meticulous. She’s one of those that looks at every. single. thing. She was in Garden Ridge yesterday for like 5 hours. No lie.
Alrighty, Emma is calling me to play and since she’ll be gone for the day, I’m going to go sit and play Polly Pocket for a moment….by the way, I did this last night with her and wrote down some things she said. I’ll have to post that later…