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OH MY GAWD Y'ALL.

Tomorrow is the first day of school in this steaming swampland we fondly call South Carolina.

Meredith is starting 3rd grade. She's all like, you know, like, whatever. Been there, done that (twice), bought the T-shirt. MANY T-shirts, for that matter.

Meredith got dragged into a store this morning so her sister could buy her jammin' new back to school clothes. She has a new T-shirt, a new bling necklace, some tennis shoes, and some worn denim shorts. Couple that with zillions of dollars of school supplies (baby wipes, hand sanitizers, Kleenex, glue sticks, notebooks, Post-It notes, binders, dry erase markers, highlighters, rulers, crayons, colored pencils, pens, pencils, and a partridge in a pear tree) and she's good to go.

I can't get blogger to move my pictures around so I'm going to have to break this up into two posts.

Anyway, there's Meredith. She's 8. She'll be 9 on September 28. She's my little girl. At least I have one left. (sob, sniff).

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growing + up
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Yay Me! Tweenager Alert!!!!!

So then there is Madeleine.

Madeleine is starting a big, brand new school just for 6th graders this year.

She brought home her first SCHEDULE on Monday. That kind of startled me. I mean, it looked like the schedules she'll bring home for the rest of her academic career. You know, like middle school, high school, college, grad school, whatever.

No more elementary school with the same old classroom all day long.

She was assigned her very first locker.

She has a pile of schoolbooks that look like the pile I had my first semester in college.

They are huge.

They are heavy.

She will catch the bus tomorrow for the first time at 6:52 AM. (gasps for breath). My night owl is in for a shock. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

She has always gone to school in a uniform. For the first few years, it was a school uniform, and for the last 2 years it's been jeans and a T-shirt. Every day. Worn? Torn? No problem.

We've been working on the new "6th grade look" for awhile. She's let her hair grow and it looks beautiful, and I suggested that she pierce her ears in June. So I wasn't totally surprised, just a little dizzy and faint when I walked through the door after work today. You know, kind of like if I had caught Roger trying on one of my ball gowns or mink stole or something.

She asked today if she could go shopping with some of her allowance money. Her Dad took her (I know he just loved it/sarcasm off) and I walked through the door today to see someone I didn't know.

London Tipton

That's the actress Brenda Song, who plays a ravishingly gorgeous and wealthy teenager named London Tipton on the Disney Channel. Her favorite saying is "Yay me!" Then she jumps up and down and claps for herself. (I like it. I've adopted it for my own personal mantra).

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"London" is always dressed in the latest SOOPER GROOVY clothes with perfectly styled hair, gorgeous bling, and makeup. Madeleine didn't have on any makeup, but she had on one of those adorable tweenager outfits and looked about fourteen. SHE LOOKED LIKE LONDON TIPTON.

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Note: I would have taken pictures, but she has to wash her hair with some megawatt conditioner after a summer in the pool. It looks kind of messy right now. She's laying out her new clothes and hopping in the shower right now.

I'll spare you the sap sap sap mah babee's growing up oh where is that tiny 14 lb bundle they handed me ten minutes ago blah blah blah and just say this...

the times, they are a'changin.

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6th + grade

There Ain't No Cure For The Summertime Blues

Or is there?

It's the week between summer school and fall semester and court isn't demanding at the moment (even judges go on vacations) so we decided two things:

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1. We'd vacation.

2. At home.

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Thing about it is--we have a pool. We have a nice house. We love our waterbed (yeah I know, but it's so comfortable!)

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Why spend $180/night in a crowded, sandy hotel room just to watch the waves? I don't like to swim in the ocean and the pool at our favorite dive is teensy.

So! We're swimming, sleeping late, treating ourselves to fancy dinners, and having a ball.

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At the same time I decided I would do ONE hideously horrible errand every day. So far:

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MONDAY. I took an old cross stitch out of its frame, washed it, ironed it, and took it in to be reframed. Updated Blogger picture.

TUESDAY. Cleaned out email.

WEDNESDAY: Change house & auto insurance to AARP.

THURSDAY: Get roots touched up & perhaps an eye exam.

FRIDAY: Take kids to water park. Now that might be fun, or not. I'm tempted to fill an innocent looking thermos with some lethal punch just in case.

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And we will have some fun company on Saturday to look forward to.

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Well, hope everybody else is enjoying the rest of the summer, and I will cyaltr.