30 Day Challenge -- Day 16

30 Day Challenge -- Day 16 -- A song that makes you cry (or nearly) -- "Christmas Shoes"

And this is a challenge to get on my blog and post everyday!

30 Day Challenge -- Day 15

30 Day Challenge -- Day 15 -- Your Dream House -- Click HERE to see a really neat house. It wouldn't let me copy the image!

30 Day Challenge - Day 14

30 Day Challenge - Day 14 -- A non-fictional book -- As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto. I would highly recommend reading this book. It's the true life story of a boy who suffered from a botched circumcision, so bad that his penis was so badly injured, that he was raised as a girl. It was absolutely fascinating, and I read the whole thing in one sitting (before kids of course).

30 Day Challenge: Day 13

30 Day Challenge: Day 13 - Is a fictional book. My favorite fictional book is The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. Click on that link to read more about it.

30 Day Challenge: Day 7

Wow! An entire week of posts featuring ME rather than just my kiddies! Impressive! Day 7 is a photo that makes me happy!

Oh wait! It is my kids that make me happy! This is Claire and Alex chilling outside. Claire is on my phone talking to probably Holly or my Mom!

30 Day Challenge: Day 6

Day 6 of the 30 Day Challenge is making a list of 20 of my favorite things!

Favorite Smells:
1. The smell of cookies or bread baking. YUM!
2. The smell of freshly cut lawns. SUMMER!
3. The way the air smells when it's ready to rain. FRESH!
4. The way sheets/bedding smells the day it's freshly out of the dryer. CLEAN!
5. The way my babies smell after a bath and lotion. MAGIC!

Favorite things to touch:
6. The feel of velvet
7. The feel of baby soft skin
8. The way bars of soap feel when they are wet....slimy, yet clean!
9. The feel of warm pavement on cool feet
10. The feel of silk!

Favorite things to eat (I am a choco-holic.)
11. Milk Chocolate bars
12. Chocolate Ice cream
13. Chocolate Pudding (homemade of course)
14. Oreos
15. Coconut MnMs (Do not try them. Highly addictive.)

Other Favorites:
16. Lake Michigan
17. Sleep
18. Computer time
19. Adult conversation with no interruptions
20. Hot baths

If you haven't already started doing the 30 day blog challenge, here is the list of things to post about. I look forward to reading your posts.

30 Day Challenge: Day 4

Day 4 is my Favorite Book!

It's hard to pick a favorite of any one "thing" in this culture of overload, but I am going to limit myself to just sharing one favorite each day of this blog challenge. I would have to say my favorite book of all time is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Why? Because I hated it in high school, but reread it after and loved it. :) It just goes to show that time and experience change everything, and it goes to prove "You can never read the same book twice!" I loved teaching it to my juniors even more. It's really cool to see what others get out of it.

30 Day Challenge: Day 3

Day 3 Challenge - Your Favorite Television Program -
Mine would have to be GLEE currently. Watch a quick video clip here see a taste of all the fun drama. I also love the musical feel of the show!

30 Day Challenge: Day 2

Day 2 is my favorite movie -- It would have to be The Sound of Music and you can watch a trailer of it by clicking here. Super catchy songs, and I am named after the main character! How do you solve a problem like Maria?

30 Day Challenge: Day 1

My favorite song was/is the song that Josh and I danced to at our wedding 9 (!!!!!!!!!) years ago called "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden. I am going to embed it here, so click on the play button to watch it or if you use a feedreader, click here to watch the lyrics. It's also a super-relaxing song.

Getting to know me

Welcome to the new 2008 edition of getting to know your family and friends. Here is what you are supposed to do, and try not to be lame and spoil the fun. Change all the answers so that they apply to you.. Then send this to a bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you. Have fun and be truthful!

1. What is your occupation right now? SAHM
2. What color are your socks right now? bare feet. then i don't have to wash socks :)
3. What are you listening to right now? Claire playing. Ahh! Eee! Oooh! BANG! Ahh!
4. What was the last thing that you ate? Trader Joe's Everything Bagel with Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam. Yummiest breakfast evah!
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Not very well
6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? my mom
7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yup
8. How old are you today? 28
9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? anything with babies/kids
10. What is your favorite drink? water
11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Sadly, yes. NEVER AGAIN!
12. Favorite food? Sketti
13. What is the last movie you watched? I can't remember
14. Favorite day of the year? Xmas Eve
15.. How do you vent anger? cry
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? Barbies
17. What is your favorite season? Summer
18. Cherries or Blueberries? Blueberries
19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? Yup
20. Who is the most likely to respond? whomever is most bored/procrastinating
21. Who is least likely to respond? opposite of 20
22. Living arrangements? Husband and Baby in a house
23. When was the last time you cried? The night before last when Claire had been up from 2-4, and she wouldn't stop fussing, despite me trying everything. I decided to change her jammies in her room in case she was uncomfortable in that pair and stepped on a hard toy. Yikes!
24. What is on the floor of your closet? Junk
25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to? not sending forwards as much anymore, posting them to the blog
26. What did you do last night? I had Josh watch Claire while I got my car washed, went to Walmart to pick up the 2 bags of groceries I had left there earlier. Stupid Cashier!
27. What are you most afraid of? A slow and painful death...fires...entrapment
28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheese, Cheese, Cheese…
29. Favorite dog breed? I hate dogs. Hate their smell and slobber and hair and neediness and all the poop that winds up in our yard even though we don't HAVE ONE! I'd rather pet a slithery snake.
30. Favorite day of the week? Saturday
31. How many states have you lived in? 2
32. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds!!
33. What is your favorite flower? Roses, Tulips, or Daisies