I've trained her well!

While Diamond and I were grocery shopping, she wanted to buy some sliced mozarella cheese to put in her sandwiches for camp. This was actually harder to find than I thought it would be. We ended up finding some deli sliced mozarella that looked good. They were 10 slices for $2.00.

As I'm unloading groceries, I notice there are holes in the cheese. I start freaking out because I do not remember grabbing swiss cheese and Diamond has never had it so I don't even know if she will like it. I guess she hears me in the kitchen mumbling and wondering how this swiss cheese ended up in our basket. She calmly comes to me and says, "Mom, I did that. I wanted us to get a deal because swiss comes with 14 slices instead of 10 for the same price."

All I could do was smile and say good job baby... I guess the holes in the swiss cheese make up for the extra slices.

On our own...

Today marks the first day without my parents. For all the years of my life, they have been there - just a knock away. My dad was offered a job in New Mexico right before spring break. He packed up some of his stuff and got a place there and now since summer is here, mom has joined him. When they got in their car, I wasn't really sad... it was when I saw their vehicle driving away and we were following behind them that it hit me that we were not going to be living in the same town anymore.

But on the positive side, we can talk to them on the webcam whenever we want and they will be back in 2 weeks to make sure we haven't burned their house down. (Not doing so well with that. I just burned a piece of salmon as I was blogging - I think this is what they might call "blackened salmon.")