So, I'll let you in on the interesting day that I have had.

First, I managed to get through all of my grocery shopping with my little magpie, who never has a quiet moment in her life. Yes, I mean that. She still makes noises when she sleeps, including the sucking noise that I find so disturbing, because it means that she still won't stop sucking her thumb even though her tooth is crooked. God was with me today, because there became a point in time when I really wanted a roll of duct tape and a volume control button. *chuckles* Worse yet? She's just like me. The only difference is that my mom called me "motor-mouth". Vroom-vroom.

After getting the groceries into the house and searching madly for all of the frozen/cold stuff, I remembered that ........oh yeah, the new rules say that you have to have your new license plate tabs on the first of the month, or you are late. It used to go by the date of your birth. So, I stuffed the food into the fridge, made DD a peanut butter sandwich on a hotdog bun, and we ran for the car.

I don't know how mom's with multiple children ever make it through Secretary of State. Honestly, I spent most of my waiting time wishing that I had though to bring DD's old stroller. Aside from the fact that it is a portable seat (since there was only one chair open), it also has straps that I can use to force her to stay in one place! lol Instead, she sat on my lap and showed no sign of stopping the quirming, wriggling, and begging. She wanted to get up and run around the room like a nut, not understanding that the dour-faced ladies behind the counter would happily ask us to leave if I didn't keep her quietly contained. Did I mention that we had a terribly long wait, and that multiple people would have loved a convenient excuse to explode in bad manners? Oy.

We did make it through our visit with the grumpy ladies though, and without much incident. After a couple firm words to DD, she seemed to settle down, and we played a version of I-Spy, recited the alphabet, and worked on counting. That was so much better, and at least I had something to do other than staring at the ugly panelling in the room, and wondering if the older lady in front of us knew that the top of her stockings was showing through the slit in her skirt. *twitches* I am a pretty patient person, but that was a LONG wait.

So, we get to the counter, and DD thinks that it is time to start acting up. You know, she tried to hide underneath my skirt?!? Really, she lifted up my dress and tried to slip between my legs. It's a good thing that I'm so scarred from an unintended flashing incident as a child that I wear leggings under my skirts. lol Do you know what it does to a girl to fall down and have the neighbor boys teasing her about having seen her nickers? Oy. *shakes head, laughing* So, I shooed DD out of there, and made her hold onto my sweater while I signed all of my papers. Thankfully she even sat still while I was having my picture taken for my new license.