Classic Texas

A list of experiences we'll just call "Classic Texas"

Funny: Miranda often comes home from school with a puzzled look on her face. Normally, she has an issue with being made fun of for her "northern" pronunciation of words such as "tag," "bag," "caramel," "almond," "crayon," and "route." It's as if the poor girl has to relearn to prounounce new words every day. Then there are words such as "sliver" that classmates and teachers don't even recognize. The "classic" moment was when she came home from school on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. With that familiar, puzzled look on her face she said, "Mama, was the first Thanksgiving in Texas?" You guessed it - that's what her Social Studies teacher taught the kids and quoted a web site professing the same. Of course, the only site I could find to cooberate her story is www.texasalmanac.com, but I guess history's different here as well.

Love it: within one week of living in our new home, I was invited to the monthly neighborhood "Girls' Night In" where women in the neighborhood get together to drink wine and play Bunco together. It was a blast! A week later it was the monthly "Couple's Night Out" where we went to what is now one of our favorite dinner and wine spots in Austin.