WE'RE ADOPTING...

She's 12 years old, but still very small. A black Asian who has lived in Florida her entire life, soon moving in with us in Iowa.

Seriously, have you ever seen anything more cute? As most of my readers will remember, I used to have one just like her. Mine was red and a 1994. I still regret the day I sold it.

You can just imagine my shock when Andrew instant messaged me at work a few days ago and told me that he bought it and that he had to fly to Florida to pick it up next week. It's a 22 hour drive to West Palm Beach, Florida to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has his one way ticket purchased and has to leave home Thursday morning the 19th at 3:30am to catch his flight. As soon as he gets to West Palm Beach, the dealership will pick him up, finalize paperwork and he'll be on the road back to Iowa. This is where the problem lies. I don't really like the idea of him driving by himself for 9 or 10 hours after having been up since 3:00am. I would go with him so we could split the driving, but I have no additional vacation time from work with our trip to Seattle coming up in August and we already have too many people off this week anyway. So, it looks like he'll be making the trip himself. He already checked into having the car shipped here, but that turned out to be cost prohibitive. It's less than half to fly there and drive it back.

So, now the discussions of the "baby's" room have begun. The garage is only big enough for two cars so this one will have to sleep outside. We have discussed adding an additional concrete parking space next to the driveway on one side. Of course we'll need to shop for some nice, warm P.J.'s so she won't get too cold during those typical Iowa winter nights.