Still a Jersey Girl

The saying is normally "You can take the boy out of the city but you can't take the city out of the boy" or something like that. Many people have used it and altered the words to fit whatever the situation is at the time. This morning I realized you can take the girl out of Jersey but you can't take the Jersey out of the girl. The dogs were in the back yard and wanted to come in, so Jack went to open the door to let them in. I hear Ashley say to him "Wait Jack, you have to wipe Sugar's paws before you let her in." And although we have not lived in New Jersey for 3 1/2 years she still has a little accent at times and it's funny to hear. Instead of paws (sounding like pause) it came out more like "pwaws" with that extra w sound. I guess with all the transplants down here we won't be able to completely break her of it but she has started to pick up some native sayings. One night we went to Publix (our local grocery store) and they always have cookies for the kids. After the kids got their cookies from the lady at the bakery Ashley said "Thank you" but was looking at me. So I asked her, who were saying thank you to? In which she responded "Both of y'all". That made me giggle and of course have to share with Daddy after he got home from work that night.