1. I love my family more than anything in the world.
2. Without them, I wouldn’t be me.
3. I am insanely in love with my husband
4. He is 15 years my senior.
5. I have great plans, but lack follow through.
6. I love vintage music of all sorts.
7. After we were married, I thought I’d never get pregnant.
8. We did.
9. It seems that I’ve been perpetually pregnant for over two years.
10. When Kinsley was still a pregnant belly, we called her Pipsqueak.
11. Sophie was known as Twinkle.
12. I love them so much that it hurts.
13. But the can drive a person mad.
14. I want to be organized.
15. I even envision myself as organized.
16. I am not.
17. I have a fondness for junk food.
18. Especially McDonald’s.
19. I live for coffee.
20. I’d rather die young than eat health food that tastes bad.
21. I inherited my dad’s eyebrows.
22. They look better on him.
23. I have four brothers.
24. And two sisters.
25. I am the second child.
26. My older sister was adopted.
27. I am ten years younger than she.
28. So I still have oldest child syndrome.
29. I love photography.
30. I am addicted to sewing.
31. I’d rather sew than eat.
32. I used to be a florist.
33. I wish used my florist “skills” more often.
34. I am a home school alumni.
35. I was home schooled all my life.
36. I loved every minute of it.
37. My children will be home schooled.
38. I love Shakespeare.
39. I covet unique fabrics.
40. And vintage patterns.
41. I wish I lived in the 40s or 50s.
42. I once ate a peanut butter and Canadian bacon sandwich on an English muffin.
43. I regretted it very soon thereafter.
44. I love peach juice.
45. I can’t get enough sleep.
46. I love pizza.
47. Especially Casey’s Pizza.
48. Especially cold Casey’s Pizza for breakfast.
49. I hate bugs. Really, really hate bugs.
50. My husband has a Master’s in entomology
51. I wish all roaches, mosquitoes and spiders would die very long and painful deaths.
52. I cried the first time Kinsley was bitten by a mosquito.
53. I really don’t cry all that often.
54. I love it when Dan reads to me while I take a bath.
55. He does that pretty regularly.
56. I can type 80 WPM.
57. I love coffee.
58. I drink about two pots a day.
59. I hate coffee made in a drip pot.
60. My father accuses me of coffee snobbery.
61. He is the reason I love coffee.
62. I love heat and humidity.
63. I hate winter.
64. I don’t care for chocolate.
65. Or most sweets, for that matter.
66. Peaches give me hives.
67. I don’t like to talk on the phone.
68. I love Dr. Pepper.
69. I hate email forwards.
70. Stories and emails that are written to provide someone with a ’spine tingle’ irritate me.
70. People who love stories and emails that are written to provide someone with a ’spine tingle’ irritate me.
71. I love the smells of lavender, household cleaners, and babies.
72. I love swing and big band music.
73. I find that I can’t handle much more than three bluegrass songs in a row.
74. I love to listen to A Prairie Home Companion.
75. My favorite color is constantly changing.
76. At the moment I love a deep chocolate brown and grass green.
77. I am the only person I know who has made it to the America’s Most Wanted list for overdue library books.
78. It’s unbelievably difficult to manage a two year old, and a nine month old in a library.
79. I want a miniature dachshunds.
80. My husband does not.
81. I have a miniature dachshund.
82. I am married to a used car sales man.
83. Neither he, nor I ever dreamed he’d be a used car sales man.
84. I LOVE to photograph anything and everything.
85. As a result, we’ve had to purchase another hard drive.
86. We also need to purchase more Ram
87. I am going to be a delegate to our district, with my husband and father.
88. My parents and my husband will be delegates to our state caucus.
89. I will not.
90. I’ve repented of my ways, and would now love to drive a minivan.
91. I haven’t had a whole night’s sleep in 2.5 years.
92. That has not been my choice.
93. I hate cleaning rice up off of the floor.
94. I love Sophie’s stiff little wave.
95. Now we drive a minivan.
96. It’s wonderful!
97. I no longer have a miniature dachshund.
98. I’m quite relieved.
99. I can’t sleep if the pillows are backwards on the bed. Backwards is when the opening of the pillowcase is facing in, toward the center of the bed, instead of toward the outer edges of the bed.
100. I recently had the pleasure of getting my hand stuck in a toilet. This has a long story behind it…
101. Every time I cook anything, my kitchen fills with smoke. It’s a law of nature.