white knuckle driving

Cindy, you were right, it wasn't a mutant grapefruit we found in our yard on Sunday.  It was, in fact, a pomelo  .  You win the "Name that Mystery Fruit" game - bet you all didn't even know you were playing, did ya?  :P

Tomorrow morning, Angel #1 goes in for his road test for his driver's license.  He was all nervous about it this morning and totally obsessed about failing until we found out his doofus driver's ed teacher told the kids that if they failed the test, the state made them wait until they were 18 before they could retake it.  I wish she would get her facts straight before terrifying a bunch of teenagers.  After I made the appointment for him, I asked how long he had to wait to retake it if he failed...it was 1 week.  Much better than the 1 1/2 years he thought he was facing.  I think that relaxed him about the whole test-taking thing.

Book Review Tuesday:  Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fanny Flagg  - Fanny Flagg writes good old fashioned feel-good books.  Can't Wait to Get to Heaven starts out with Elner Shimfissle getting attacked by wasps and falling out of the fig tree in her front yard to her death.  Throughout the book, we follow both her family and friends reaction to her death as well as Elner's journey after death.  We find out secrets Elner kept for others as well as the monumental changes she made in peoples lives both during her life and after her death.  Sweet and touching, it also has many laugh out loud moments as Elner, in her blunt, matter-of-fact way makes everyone's lives more meaningful.  I want to read this one again and again, just because it was so darn sweet.  After reading it, I've started to look at life in a different way.