My sister and my cousin posted 100 things about themselves on their blog. They did it so their posterity would know a little bit more about them. I decided to join the bandwagon. This was fun. It took me a couple of days. I would sit and just add 10-15 a day. So here it is:
1. I love to pluck my eyebrows. I can be so tired at night and still spend 15 minutes plucking my eyebrows. It relieves a little stress.
2. I love teaching my kids about something new. It is fun to watch their face as they comprehend it and it's exciting to know that I help their thought process.
3. I love feeling the Spirit bear witness to me about gospel truths.
4. I hate crumbs. I hate cleaning them up and I cringe at almost every meal with my children.
5. I love the smell of rain.
6. I want to be a country music singer in my next life.
7. I wish I would have played sports when I was younger.
8. I love fresh flowers.
9. I have a hard time turning my brain off. I dream in fabric swatches and scrapbook paper.
10. I hate doing laundry. It will sit in baskets for days.
11. I love to organize.
12. I love to shop on the internet. With three kids it is so much easier.
13. I have enjoyed moving away from home. I miss our family, but I have grown so much. It has been a great learning experience for me.
14. My favorite 'LOST' character is Sawyer. He is so handsome.
15. I read books about vampires.
16. My favorite pastime is body boarding.
17. I really miss the simple Caribbean life.
18. My favorite childhood memory is our fourth of July campouts at KOA!!
19. I wish I had a middle name.
20. You can never have too much produce in your house. I have panic attacks when we start to get low on fresh fruit and vegetables.
21. I recently started to enjoy vegetables.
22. I obsess about weight. It is always on my mind.
23. I love COOKIES!!
24. I love lazy days when Jonathan doesn't have to go to work.
25. I love falling asleep with my children. I get so relaxed.
26. I enjoy nursing my babies. It is one of my favorite parts about motherhood. It is never a burden to me.
27. I hate the mornings that my hair needs to be washed. I love "second day" hair.
28. I wish I was more fearless and tried more exciting things.
29. I love photography and I wish I had a great camera... and was naturally good at taking pictures.
30. I have the gift of gab. I love to talk to people, and get to know them. I feel comfort when I share something in common with someone.
31. Validation is a huge thing for me. I want my feelings to be validated even if whatever I'm upset about is silly.
32. My kids laughter is the best remedy for a bad day.
33. I love making breakfast for my kids.
34. My car is never clean, but my house always is.
35. I feel better about spending money at a consignment shop, thrift store, or a bargain store. I also tend to buy things if they are on sale. I probably spend more money this way just because I think I am getting a good deal, rather then just not buying it at all.
36. I love to go to lunch with Jonathan and the kids on a Saturday afternoon.
37. I go to my Weight Watchers meeting every month to be accountable to someone.
38. I used to do fingernails for a living, but I never paint my own.
39. It was hard for me to start driving a mini-van, but now I love it.
40. I could watch Sweet Home Alabama, Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have fun, and How to Lose a Guy In Ten Days over and over again.
41. I love to exercise.
42. My favorite store is Hobby Lobby.
43. I enjoy having friends over for dinner.
44. I love to bake. I enjoy baking anything and everything. I am getting good at bread.
45. House Hunters on HGTV is one of my favorite shows.
46. I also love the show 'Reba'. Van and Babby J (Barbara Jean) are hilarious. If you haven't seen this, you should tune in. It is good for your soul.
47. I am a control freak when it comes to movies and television that my children want to watch.
48. I don't want my kids to have sleepovers.
49. I won't let my kids have shoes that light up or have characters on the side. I know... I am a MEAN mom.
50. I enjoy buying clothes a season a head for my kids. Then when I pull them out the next season, I just grin when I see how cheap I got them.
51. I get car sick.
52. I want to be a Certified Nurse Midwife. I plan to go back to school when the kids are older.
53. I don't miss my long hair. I like having it short again, and don't know if I will grow it back out EVER.
54. I am very assertive. I rarely wait for Jonathan to help me with something. I usually just do things on my own timetable.
55. I love my memory foam pillow.
56. I enjoy reading about church history. I think that Joseph Smith is such a wonderful and interesting man. I want to know more about him and his life.
57. I don't enjoy being pregnant, but I love the labor and birth part. It is so empowering.
58. I can't leave the house with out making my bed.
59. I enjoy a good weekend with my close friend Krysta. We are special spirit sisters who completely understand one another.
60. I enjoy watching Jonathan play sports. It gives me that "butterflies in the tummy" feeling that I got when we were dating.
61. I am grateful for prescription drugs and vaccinations that help make it possible for people to be whole. I know that this is just one of the great gifts given from God through the hands of man.
62. I am grateful for the medication 'Zofran' that made it possible for me to keep food down during my last pregnancy.
63. I love flip flops.
64. I use a self-tanner, and always use sunscreen. I am afraid of the effects of the sun. I wish I had been a little more cautious in my younger years.
65. I love the smell of astringent, and I will wash my face with it a couple of times a day just to smell it.
66. I hate when my feet are cold.
67. I never use overhead light. I always have lamps on.
68. I want to go on a mission with Jonathan someday. I think it would be fun to go to Nauvoo.
69. I don't really love animals. I am not cruel to them in any way, but I don't really ever care to have any pets.
70. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is open the blinds. I love natural light.
71. I check my email 5-10 times a day.
72. I forget to check the answering machine.
73. I love to bath in the winter, and also when I don't feel well.
74. I wish I would have taken more dance classes, and tried to dance with a company.
75. I am a very scheduled mother, and I think that is why my babies sleep through the night at such a young age.
76. I worry that I am going to mess up my kids somehow and do something wrong.
77. I don't like to run. It just hurts all around.
78. I love to lift wieghts, and enjoy every part of my muscles aching the day after.
79. One of my favorite hobbies is taking things off the wall and finding a new spot for them.
80. I don't like the way my kids smell when they have been playing outside.
81. I enjoy a nice, cold, Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper everyday. (sometimes 2)
82. I love to cook with garlic, it makes everything taste better.
83. I love wrestling and tickling my kids. We do it at least three times a day. I even love to tickle and be crazy with Isaac. This is how I show my love.
84. I love when Jonathan calls me in the middle of the day, just to say Hi.
85. I love the smell of Coffee, but have never tasted it.
86. I don't miss high school at all, but I long to have some of those college days back.
87. A place for everything, and everything in it's place. This describes me well.
88. I love to make things for my house, and I am pretty good at using up things that I have to make something look new again.
89. I love antiques and old used up furniture. The more beat-up the better.
90. I love a good pork salad from Cafe Rio. It will last me three meals, and sometimes I will eat the leftovers for breakfast.
91. I wish I could fiddle, and would even like to play the electric fiddle.
92. Soft cookies! (need I say more?)
93. I want to take lots of family vacations.
94. I would love to have my own store someday. It would be full of items that creative people came up with out of their own house. A sort of "creative boutique."
95. I didn't like teaching preschool to Jex and his friends. It was too stressful for me.
96. I don't miss cutting hair.
97. I love wearing contacts.
98. I hope my children think I am a wonderful mother, and that they will love me despite my faults.
99. I hope Jonathan and I can always have a strong marriage.
100. I can't believe that I had that much to say about myself!! What kind of self-absorbed person am I?
I encourage everyone to try this. It really helps you think about the person that you are. It made me think about things that I do everyday, and never realize. It was really FUN!!
I loved reading all of those things about you Andrea! We have a lot in common!
ReplyDeleteI loved that! I checked your blog right before bed and I was tired, so I thought "I'll read half now and then have something to look forward to tomorrow morning and finish it then." But I couldn't stop reading it...too fun! I think you inspired me and I might have to try this for myself. We'll see how long it takes me to think of 100 things! :)
ReplyDeleteLove it! I need to do this.. I have been going through a 'refinding' of myself for a while, and I think this would help me remember who I was/am. Thanks for sharing. It'll probably take a couple days to think it all up though!
ReplyDeleteIt is quite amazing that you can think of that many things huh? It is weird that as I read yours, I thought of so many more that I could add to my list.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to read & learn more about you! I will definitely have to do this--great idea!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun thing to do! Thanks for the great idea Andrea! It was also SO fun to learn more about you! I just think that you are so stinkin wonderful!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun to read this about you. You are really a great daughter and mother to my grandchildren and a super wife to love and support and take care of my son! I love you. Lorene
ReplyDeleteWow that was fun to read, sorry about the middle name lol!! And I hope I didn't mess you up to bad and that you love me anyway too!!
ReplyDeleteI just found your blog! I didn't know you had one! I enjoyed seeing pictures of your family and learning more about you guys!
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