101 Random things about me.

Okay so Staci, Danielle, and Leslie all did their lists recently and I laughed pretty hard and learned somethings about these women that I didn’t know before.

Here’s my list:

#1. My drink of choice is COLD Pepsi – No ice.

#2. I love children’s art.

#3. I display my children’s artwork on a wall in my office.

#4. I volunteer two mornings a month in the Art room at my kid’s school.

#5. The Art teacher wishes I had my teaching degree because I would have been a better sub then some of the subs she had last year!

#6. The Art teacher is one of my best friends!

#7. The Art teacher’s dd is the youngest person I know that is fighting Breast Cancer at the age of 22.  She was diagnosed two years ago, was in remission but the cancer came back last October.

#8. I volunteer at least 15 hours a week during the school year, between my kids’ school and the community work I do.

#9. I LOVE kindergarten.  I volunteered in kindergarten at least 2 hours a week last year and will again this year and I don’t even have a kindergartener anymore!

#10. My eldest is 14 years old and a freshmen this fall.

#11. He has a girlfriend named Danika.

#12. He volunteers at the zoo every summer.  He just finished a two week stint on the Z-team for a total of 40 hours.

#13. He is happy to be home after spending two weeks at a friend’s house that was closer to the zoo and was a great help as I didn’t have to drive him there and pick him up every day.

#14. My eldest daughter is a photography diva and a jr, girl scout.

#15. She is also an amazing baker! You have got to try her peanut butter chocolate chip cookies!

#16. She also reads incessentaly.

#17. She is 10 and a half (that half is IMPORTANT) and entering the 5th grade.

#18. My third child, my 9 year old son, is my favorite 9 year old in the world!

#19. He is my athlete.  He plays soccer, golf, and basketball.

#20. He is also a Cub Scout.

#21. He will be entering 4th grade in 3 1/2 weeks.

#22. He plays a MEAN guitar on Guitar Hero!

#23. He has beautiful blue eyes and gorgeous blond hair!

#24. My baby is 7 1/2 years old and in 2nd grade.

#25. She is a bundle of uncontrollable energy and sometimes can be VERY bossy.

#26. and that bossiness does not endear her to her siblings some days!

#27. But she is a little cutie and a brownie girl scout.

#28. We are all avid readers!

#29. We have have so many books in this house that we’ve been accused of owning a small library!

#30. My library card is the most used card in my wallet.

#31. I’ve had a library card since I was 6 years old.

#32. My children get their first library cards on their 5th birthdays.

#34. I hate folding laundry.

#35. I love to try new recipes!

#36. unfortunately my children are not all that keen on trying new foods and meals.

#37. I LOVE cheesecake – any kind.  My favorite tho is Carmel Apple Cheescake.

#38. I fell in love with the property we built our home on because of the mature trees, lilac bushes and apple trees.  It helped a lot that it was a real steal financially too!

#39. I love dogs – we have a pug named Shadow who is approaching her 10th birthday.

#40. Shadow is my hero and my youngest daughter’s best friend.

#41. Ask me someday about WHY Shadow is my hero.

#42. I don’t like cats – we have an American short hair named Meepo who is roughly 3 years old.

#43. He is my husband’s cat.

#44. But WHO cleans the litter box when it’s needed?

#45. My favorite flowers are lilies of any sort.  Thus the header on this blog.  Those are my tiger lilies.

#46. I love the theatre and acting.  I don’t do much of it anymore but I do love helping out with the productions at my kids’ schools.

#47. I LOVE Grey’s Anatomy.

#48. I watch religiously even in the off season!

#49. I’m the eldest of 6 children.

#50. I have 2 sisters

#51. and 3 brothers.

#52. I also have 5 foster siblings.  2 boys and 3 girls.  All of these foster siblings are also my cousins.

#53. I haven’t worked outside my home in 13+ years.

#54. I’m applying for jobs at the elementary school my children attend.

#55. I’ve been scrapbooking for over 15 years.

#56. I talk to my eldest sister almost everyday.

#57. She is a “gypsy” so to speak.  She works for a company that travels around the country fixing storm damage to cars, vans, trucks and such.

#58. I talk to my baby brother at least once a week.

#59. He is 13 years younger then me.

#60.  I talk to my mom and dad almost everyday.

#61. I LOVE chocolate.

#62. Especially DeBrand’s Chocolate.

#63. I graduated college 17 years ago with a degree in Communications and a minor in English.

#64.  I SHOULD have gotten my teaching degree.

#65.  I know quite a bit of Sign language. I taught myself.

#66.  I don’t know ANY other foreign language.  It wasn’t required when I was in highschool.

#67. However, from growing up in the midst of a big Finnish community I can cuss in Finn if I wanted too.

#68. I homeschooled my eldest child from preschool through 2nd grade.

#69. None of my children had any preschool before kindergarten, beyond what I did at home with them.

#70. I’m extremely thrifty.  Okay I’m cheap.  I revel in the challenge to find the best deals!

#71. Oh more pets – We also have two gerbils named Judy and Annie after two of my eldest daughters favorite book characters, Judy Moody and Annie in the Magic Treehouse Series.

#72. I’ve picked 15 zucchini of my 6 plants so far this summer!

#73. My tomatoes have not produced anything ripe yet.

#74. My husband brought me home roses last night.  For no reason whatsoever.

#75. My hubby won’t believe this but he truly is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

#76. I have trouble sleeping alone.

#77. On those nights I tend to sit up either on the computer or scrapbooking.

#78. I think my dog has fleas.  —YUCK!!!

#79. I’ve only been consistently blogging for about a week.

#80. I LOVE making the gifts we give.  I feel it’s so much more personal.

#81. My grandmother, rest her soul, picked out my wedding dress.

#82. I was devastated when she died, knowing that my children would not get to meet their great grandmother.

#83. I don’t like cleaning.  I do it but I don’t like it.  Ah to hire a housekeeper!

#84. I love working outside tho.  I love mowing the lawn and taking care of the gardens and trees.

#85. I love birds – especially birds of prey like hawks, eagles, and owls.

#86. I would rather wear mittens then gloves.

#87. The only jewelry I wear all the time are my wedding and engagement rings.

#88.  I have a 3 ring zippered binder that my kids call “Mom’s Brain.”

#89. It has a calendar, and a separate section for each of my children as well as sections for the kindergarten literacy program that I’m in charge of at school.  If it doesn’t get put on the calendar in my “brain” it doesn’t happen.

#90. I love playing games with my family.

#91.  I hate visiting the doctor.

#92. I hate going to the dentist

#93. I love genealogy and that’s what excited me about scrapbooking to begin with.

#94. My aunt has traced my mom’s side of the family back to President Nixon, and back to Europe.

#95. I love listening to church congregations sing from hymnals – especially the old hymns.

#96. My computer desk top is a disaster zone.

#97. My scrapping corner however is quite neat and tidy.

#98. I love fresh veggies right out of the garden – especially sweet corn and zucchini.

#99. I love strawberries and apples picked fresh.

#100. I believe the true hero of The Lord of the Rings is Sam – Not Frodo.

#101. Right now I have 112 items checked out from the public library!

Okay I should stop now – I could go on, but I did say just 101 random things, not 201.

Blessings,

Garsy