Clown Cars...

So...

Why are we talking about clown cars?

Which, by the way, were first used in the Cole Brothers Circus in 1950.

Well, we are talking about them because I realized a couple days ago that my purse is like a clown car.

Actually, it's not 'like' a clown car it IS a clown car.  

No matter how much stuff I put in, there's always more room. 

Kinda like Hermione's special bag in the Harry Potter series. 

It's just a normal red purse. Look, you can use my foot for a frame of reference...

Wait! Rabbit Trail! 

My friend Liz has big feet. 

It's adorable. 

That is all.

Whew! I feel better.

I noticed it was getting a bit heavy so tonight I decided to do a clean out. 

Wow. She blogs about cleaning out her purse? This is thrilling stuff!

When I unloaded the purse I could not believe the amount of stuff that came out of it. 

Let's look, shall we?

Two big books:

And yes, I do see the irony in having Jo Beverly's A Scandalous Countess and The Duggar's A Love That Multiplies in the same purse.

Whatever.

Next:

Now, this a little ridiculous...

One bag teddy grahams

The chocolate kind - dip them in peanut butter...Yum!

One bag vanilla sugar wafers

One juice box

Two boxes of raisins

and

One fruit roll up.

Have I mentioned that my minions attend a school that's 30 minutes away and I have a disgruntled toddler?

Next: 

A plethora of random items:

Two packs of matches, five hair clips, two sweaty bands, headphones, a PSP, two checkbooks and some mismatched jewelry, a Red Box movie...

And don't think I'm being all uber Tiger Mom with the Brain Quest Quizzes. My kids love those things. 

I don't know why.

Four pens, one pencil and a Sharpie.

Well, really, you never know when you are going to need to write excessive amounts!

And the proverbial (proverbial? word usage?) pile of trash.

Ooh! But look what was in the trash:

The six year old brought this worksheet home from Kindergarten and I wondered why he had missed so many.

But, he actually had pretty dang good excuses for his mistakes.

He guessed F for flake. 

He was supposed to write S for snow.

Close, kid.

And this one?

He wrote S for space! Anyone could have made that mistake. 

Of course, it was supposed to be A for astronaut.

This one though...

At first I thought:

'Wow! That's great that he knows the word kid for a baby goat!"

But no, he thought it was a cow.

Or kow as he would say.

We had to have a little talk about taking the time to think of what the very best answer to these questions would be.

Goat, Cow, Kow...

Tomato/Tomatoe I say!

Too much stuff in the purse I definitely say.

The goat would agree with me.