I am going to attempt to….

...…Blog everyday for the month of August. The theme is Tomorrow and I think that is a pretty good one. Not every post has to relate to that theme but it is a good one to fall back on when I don’t have much to say ;)

I also want to try and post some candid pictures of Tae (or anything else I find interesting or entertaining) from my phone. I am not sure I will be keeping the fancy data service on my phone much longer. I initially wanted the phone to post instant images, just never got around to it; at this point I better do it while I have the chance. You’ll be able to tell which pictures are from my phone because it adds this stupid message “blah blah blah blackb3rry via T-M0bile” across the bottom of the post. Oh well, I might go back later and delete that message because yes I am that OCD.

I am T.I.R.E.D!!!! Tae has decided she fancies herself as a ROOSTER and wakes up earlier and earlier every day. Our record so far is 5 am, which wouldn’t be so bad if the night didn’t include a 3 am wake up because someone didn’t want to finish their dinner (or they ate everything they could…& by ‘they’ I mean Tae) and is now “STARVING” because they have hollow legs… It wouldn’t be so bad if I hadn’t been up late doing homework or absolutely nothing just to stay up and be defiant. I know you are thinking it can’t be that bad, I should be happy because now she will be tired early and bed time will be smooth sailing…sorry folks…SO not the case. It is like she has started some movement about NEVER sleeping. This girl can apparently go STRONG for 15 hours as N and I walk around like zombies with burning eyes wondering why we can’t go to bed at 6pm. INSANE. I have tried to get her to say “Hi, I’m Tae. I wake up at the crack of dawn” but she isn’t feelin’ it and just says all cute and sweet with a slight touch of ridicule “what??? I just like to wake up with the sun” …already looking forward to winter.

Thanks to Noni and Poppy, Tae and I have traded the heat of the desert for the cool breezes of Iowa…for the next 10 days. We almost missed our flight this morning because I was so tired last night I set the alarm but forgot to turn it ON (I am brilliant). Thank goodness for Tae’s rooster-ness or we would have definitely missed the flight. I am excited to slow down and give Tae some ‘country girl’ time. I never realized what ‘city girl ‘she is…she was shrieking every five minutes on the way home from the airport because she would see a cow, or a sheep, or a horse…which totally exposed her city girl identity.

I love coming back to my little town, always brings back a lot of memories of yesterdays, makes me feel surprisingly young yet extremely old, and I am always happy that it still feels like home. But the yesterdays will all have to wait till TOMORROW because I have to go to bed.