The angels cried....
The new leaves on the trees even drooped sadly....
The dog is sad....
Even the boy is really sad today....(okay, so the dog always looks like that and the boy was faking it for the camera, but it helps the point)
But for a Texas girl who has been removed from "the homeland", days like today are extremely sad ones.....
The reason for all the tears you ask.....
Can you see it...can you tell....its hard to see.
We just put (oh i can hardly bring myself to say it...) MISSOURI PLATES ON MY CAR!!!!!!! SOB SOB SOB SOB
(my husband, Mr. Smarty pants, asked me to black out the actual plate number. I'm impressed I was able to figure out how to do it...I'm not the most computer literate person I know)
So very very sad that I can no longer say I live in Texas. Now I know I haven't lived in Texas for a very long time (anything over 2 weeks out of state is a very very long time) but having to admit that I'm "from" somewhere other than Texas is heartbreaking. Luckily for me, I can always claim to be a Texan, as I was born and raised there. For the last 30.5 years of my life, I have called Texas, and only Texas, home. To be uprooted at this stage has traumatic side effects. I have coped well. I have missed blue bonnets, sea food and Tex-Mex, but I have learned to love from afar. My truly Texas friends have tried "therapy". Sending me pictures of fields of bluebonnets, making sure I ate real Tex-Mex when I came home for a visit, etc etc. And I have coped. I have griped about the driving here, citing Texas drivers as the only ones who know, truly know, how to navigate the highways. I have complained about the "hillbillies", stating that in Texas, we may be rednecks, but we are high class rednecks. And now...I must finally give up the fight, roll over and admit to the world....that I too am from hillbilly land. I can no longer drive down the highway and have the world know that I am from the best place on Earth. Texas, my Texas....oh how I miss you....
When we moved back to TX from Iowa, I started jumping up and down when I got my Texas license back. They thought I was a loon, but it was like coming back to my homeland from a different country. Hope you make it back to God's country someday! :)
ReplyDeleteLOL ok I thought someone had really died!!! That's funny though.....
ReplyDeleteoh my that was hysterical! I knew those heart shaped texas stickers would come in handy. I hope to never go through the trauma of removing my texas plates. My sister was so excited when they finally got theirs back after getting out of the Navy! Miss you guys!
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This is great...my aunt in Vegas as her plates saying...TEXNN, so she said no matter what state she lives in people will always know where her heart is and where she belongs...Miss ya!
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