Victoria’s test, multiple trips, airports

I took the day off yesterday to take Victoria to her test in Ft Worth. She was not due at the testing site until noon but we left the farm at 9 a.m. just to make sure. Mama wanted to leave much later but Victoria is more like me in liking to get to a destination early rather than just in time. Since I felt like she would be under a pretty fair amount of pressure with the test looming over her, we left early.

We made it to the test site about an hour before Victoria was required to report but on the way we spotted a couple of places where Mama and I could hang out while we were waiting on Victoria. Since we were so early we all went to a nursery that was only a few blocks from the test site. Mama found her yellow tomato plants there so we had to buy a couple. If they are heirloom plants we will save the seeds and try to grow them ourselves next year; if they are not, I will have to go back to this nursery to get more.

About twenty minutes before her scheduled time we drive to the building where Victoria was to report. Victoria and I went to the test site and I was promptly run out of the room – I was promptly informed that it was for persons taking the test only. I prayed with her and left. As Victoria was getting out of the car to go up for her test Mama remarked at how spoiled she was that her daddy would take a day off from work to take her to her test. Victoria was pretty quick to point out that she asked Mama to make the drive with her, not daddy. “So who is really the spoiled one?” she quipped. Good point.

Mama and I went to several stores to look around and eventually ended up at a Chick-fil-A near the building Victoria was in. It was a little over an hour later that Victoria called to say that she was done and that she had passed the test. She was ecstatic. That has been hanging over her for about a year and now it is done. Lunch at Chipotle was a celebratory time.

We were a long time in getting back to the farm. We stopped at a furniture store and at the tractor dealer before we even got back to Bowie where we stopped at the feed store to pick up more baby chicks. Whoever is going to be coming to the farm in our absence is going to have their hands full. The only “bright” spot is that, at this time, Mama and Victoria are planning on taking the piglets with us to Florida. Oh, joy!

Maggie and Aaron will arrive in DFW this evening so Mama and I are making the trip back to Dallas to pick them up. Next week we will be returning twice more to pick up Brittany and Joshua. The following week we will be making the drop off trips. Fortunately these are not difficult trips but Mama and I certainly miss the airport in Amarillo. It was only ten minutes from the house.

We are quickly getting very familiar with this airport also.