Wild To Child

Since our big move to Eastern Washington and back again, we have downsized considerably in space. So much in fact, that it is impossible to go anywhere in our town home and not hear a crying child...three out of five times they aren't even my kids! It's been really tough going from a 1500 square foot home into a 900 square foot town home in a complex.

The biggest mistake we made in choosing a place was not getting one with three bedrooms. I figured putting the girls together was the obvious answer, because they are both girls and we could save money at the same time. Needless to say, the girls each occupy a bedroom and Evan and I have been sleeping downstairs in the living room! I miss, miss, MISS having a garage, and a big yard, and the luxury of not hearing your neighbors walk up and down their stairs. The upside to our home now is that it does have a TINY (I mean super small...like a 10 foot square) yard, rent is pretty cheap, and they let us move in immediately. Now I know why.....

The moral of the story is...I will never try to get a one year old and a three year old to share bedroom again. Never. Ever. EVER.

Here it is......the post you have all been waiting for! 25 things entirely about me!!!! ENJOY!

1. The best day of my life was the day that I became a mother. I had experienced love before, but the love you have for your child extends beyond what you can even imagine.

2. My first child was conceived pre-wedlock(shock! gasp!) and Evan and I "made it official" when I was 8.5 months pregnant.....romantic, I know.

3. The man that my husband INSISTED on having speak at our wedding started by saying "We are gathered here today not only out of love.....but also of sin...." and continued on to mention our "consolation prize" for our sins being our unborn child. I was so angry and busy glaring at him that I didn't hear a lot of what else was said. Looking back now, it's rather funny to me. He sure knows how to make an entrance.

4. Humor is a defense mechanism for me. If something really bothers me, I will laugh and make jokes about it. I also do that if I think something is funny so....you're left to decipher which is which.

5. I had my first bout of kidney stones when I was six months pregnant with Scarlet. It was so painfully scary, I thought for sure that I was dying. My doctor couldn't decide between kidney stones or appendicitis, so they removed my appendix "just in case" (survival percentages are terrible if it bursts and you're pregnant!). Thinking that they had solved the problem because my appendix was inflamed upon removal, I felt much better...only to have the debilitating pain and sickness return when the spinal wore off. To this day I honestly believe I had both.

6. I grew up in a very small town and attended the same school from pre-school to graduation. 12 other people out of my graduating class (there were around 25 people altogether) did the same thing. I said I hated it there growing up, but I actually loved every minute of it.

7. It irritates the hell out of me when people say they don't vote because their vote doesn't make a difference. It does. And if you don't vote...I don't want to hear you whine about the way things are....you didn't even TRY to make it different.

8. My first love is and always will be....sunflower seeds (Frito Lay brand only). I can't help it....it's an addiction.

9. I honestly don't know what my favorite song is. My dad has influenced me in so many different genre's that for me, picking a favorite song is like picking which of your children is your favorite.....you just can't do it.

10. I want to be filthy rich and buy an obnoxious house and a luxury car to flaunt my wealth. Not at the world in general, just to people I don't like. Yes, I am very petty like that.

11. I look forward to my "Drunken Sunday" with a friend of mine in Seattle. We do it every year when the weather is nice. Starting around 11 in the morning, we buy a fountain soda in a gas station, fill it half way up and walk to the liquor store on Capitol Hill (open on Sunday). Fill the rest of the soda with whiskey and walk around the city gettin drunk. Last time I got so drunk I stopped in the middle of a park and cried because I didn't want to walk anymore. FYI...white capri's are a bad idea for this activity.

12. I think people who use chopsticks in Chinese restaurants are pretentious....but only because no matter how hard I try, I just can't use them.

13. My little sister is one of my best friends. She's like a thinner, younger, replica of me....I didn't even know I was that cool. Plus, she shares my passion for gambling.

14. I have an unjustified hatred toward George Clooney. He just seems like the most pretentious man alive. I bet he eats Chinese food with chopsticks. Sexiest Man Alive??? I think not.

15. There's nowhere I'd rather be than near a body of water (ocean, river, lake...doesn't matter) with my family, laying in the sun, eating sunflower seeds, and playing in the water or reading a good book.

16. I'm amazed at the number of college graduates from my high school that move home and get menial jobs that have nothing to do with their major.

17. I can be quite reserved when you first meet me, almost perceived as shy. Mostly because I'm trying to gauge how much of my personality a person can take before they think I'm too sarcastic or "negative".

18. It was absolutely shocking to me that when I first moved to Seattle, people were amazed that I was 21 years old and had never done drugs.

19. In the past I have compromised who I am, what I want and what I stand for in order to be loved. It wasn't worth it, ended in heartache, and hurt a lot of people.

20. I think I'm a moderately funny person. A lot of people think it's weird that I laugh at my own jokes. I'm told if you have to explain why you're laughing....it's not funny. I beg to differ.

21. I hate the words weiner and titties. They aren't sexy and sound extremely juvenile. Don't use them, you'll sound like a perv....there are plenty of alternatives that glorify the anatomy instead of degrade them. The only acceptable users are 12 year old boys followed hysterical giggles.

22. My first kiss was attributed to a game of truth of dare. I regret whom it was with because I always had a gut feeling that he was a bad person. He has caused a lot of people a lot of pain since then...

23. I only played spin the bottle once at a birthday party in the sixth grade. The only time I spun the bottle, it landed on the birthday girls boyfriend. Of course she was mad at me for a week afterward, as if I calculated the speed and angle to spin it at in order to have it land on him.

24. The only goal I ever scored in soccer (I played on an all boys team in a league dominated by boys), my father was the substitute coach for one game. Within the first 20 seconds of the game I took the ball all the way up the field and scored a goal without anybody else touching the ball (except for the kickoff). Turns out my father put 10 kids on the field, and had the choice of letting them take a penalty kick or starting the game over. He chose to start the game over...and then took me out. I will NEVER forgive him for that.

25. I have never had a one night stand....or premarital sex.......joking! But only about the premarital sex. I seriously have never had a one night stand.