How Did This Happen?????

How did you go from playing with toy keys...


and driving a Barbie Jeep...




to getting a drivers permit and using real keys and a real car???

This is the question I am asking myself as I prepare to take Taylor to get her learner's permit.
Now the fun begins...
we have to teach her to drive.

I took drivers training in the summer at my high school, with a parking lot driving center and a teacher who had his own brake on the passenger side of the car for when we went on the road.




Not so anymore...
In Florida, you take a 4 hour online safe drivers course, go to the DMV to take a vision and hearing test and you are good to go.

Mom and Dad get to teach you how to drive and we DO NOT have a brake on our side of the car:-)

We have one year to accomplish this. Should be interesting:-)


This is the car that Taylor wants...




So cute isn't it?
So small, too!!!

Here's another version...



at least everyone would know it is her.
(Hey Taylor, you wanted a mini cooper so...)


Now this is the car I want her to have...




A nice, shiny, Hummer!
She can even put a "Life is Good" tire cover on the back...


and tie a tiny pointe shoe to the mirror to customize it.
See...I'm reasonable!


I guess I could bend a little more and let her have a pink one...




or maybe she would like a purple Hummer. hee,hee



Actually, since she is my "green" child, maybe she would like this one...




Why can't she just be content to ride around in the backseat of my Mom Taxi forever...
I know...it's called growing up.
She's handling that just fine...
Me on the other hand...
I still have a lot of growing up to do:-)

Okay Taylor, if you must move on from the Barbie car, promise me you will at least use a Barbie key chain to remind you of your very first car:-)



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I Spy Something...Pink!

Of course I do, because it's time for another Pink Saturday,
thanks to Beverly at How Sweet The Sound.

Don't you love all of the retro pink toys out there these days?
My little princesses would have had these for sure!!!!! (Okay, so I couldn't resist throwing in a pink tutu and the piano was just so darned cute:-)

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit the other Pink Saturday hostesses!

But before I go, Beverly requested that us "Pink Saturday" ladies visit a new blog this week and share the blog with others. I mentioned this blog once already because I met her this week when she entered...and won my giveaway on Monday. Her name is Cynthia and her blog is Beauty and Blessings. Cynthia just discovered blogging and is very new, just beginning to post. She is a precious lady who, if you read her "about me" profile, has had the kind of 9 months you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. I don't know if the blogging bug will catch on or not but I do know she would appreciate all of the encouragement you can pass her way, so if you have an extra moment in your pink saturday, please stop by and introduce yourself and your blog to Cynthia. Thanks!

In a Shabby Chic kind of mood...

Don't get me wrong, I love my life. But I was thinking (actually, daydreaming) in an ideal world, where would I live, what would I drive...you get the picture. (Family and pets remain the same, of course:-) So here's my shabby Sunday daydream...

My house...
My Porch...

My Backyard...

My Bedroom...


My cars...



My Scooter...
Sigh...that's it for today. Cloudy Sunday afternoons
are perfect for daydreams, don't you think?