I’ve been tagged by at least ten people on Facebook, so I thought I would post my 25 things here as well- since I haven’t posted anything in such a long time. So without further ado, here are my 25 things.
1. I LOVE, I mean absolutely love to laugh. The kind where you could easily spew coke or milk out your nose if you were drinking something. The kind that makes tears stream down your face. And I love getting the giggles when it is completely inappropriate too- like in church, or in college during a lecture, or something like that. I was definitely the one in school who got in trouble for laughing in class.
2. I was a horrible student in college. Not because of laughing in class, but because I hardly ever went. I didn’t have to study very much to get by, so I just didn’t see the point in going to class. I graduated after changing majors 5 times and somehow ended up with about 5.5 years worth of credits finished in 4.5 years.
3. One of my biggest pet peeves is mis-spelling words and poor grammar. It doesn’t annoy me, it just pains me because it makes people seem so much less intelligent than they really are. I’m not perfect at it either, and it drives me absolutely bonkers when I realize I have made a typo here or there. (Please don’t email me to tell me how many mistakes I’ve made here.)
4. While I didn’t love college for the classes, I absolutely had the time of my life in college with my friends and sorority. It was simply awesome.
5. I miss my mom for many reasons, but her big laugh and her ability to really enjoy a good time are two of the biggest things I miss. I miss my grandfather’s laugh too- they both could so easily laugh to the point of tears. Though I have healed in many ways from losing her, I will never fully get over living my life without my mom. It’s really hard sometimes.
6. I have no idea what my favorite color is. It used to be red and nothing even touched that as a close second. But then I had Amai and fell in love with pink for the first time ever. Asher opened up whole new world of color to me, and I still am at a loss as to what colors I love. I love lots of color and this is why I still haven’t decided on paint colors for most of our house.
7. I would rather spend an evening with my hubby than anyone else on the face of the earth. He can make me laugh harder than any man ever has, and I deeply and truly lucked out to have him as my best friend. I adore him.
8. I secretly want to become a pilot one day. Not commercial, just private- for fun. Don’t know if we’ll ever be able to afford that, but I dream about it quite a bit. Every time I see a small airplane flying by, I’m a little jealous.
9. Before I had kids, I had no idea how amazing it would be to become a mom. It’s the best thing ever. And yet, there’s nothing that has had the potential to drive me to drinking like a bad day with my kids. I’m eternally grateful for the good and the bad days with them though.
10. I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
11. Amai going to Kindergarten in the fall has hit me much harder than I ever thought it would. I’m ready, but then again, I’m just not ready for her to grow up this fast. The next thing I know, she’s going to be asking for the keys to my car so she can go meet her friends somewhere. Dang!!!
12. I’m still praying about whether or not to go to seminary for a counseling degree. On one hand I think it would be great, on the other hand I don’t know if I can handle everyone else’s crap- I have enough of my own.
13. Chris and I are both night owls. It kills me to get up so early with the kids because I usually stay up way too late. I’ve had to really force myself to grow up in this area. The minute they are more self-sufficient I know I will probably revert to staying up into the wee hours of the morning.
14. I consider myself to be a very creative person. I love to create things. I can sew really well, I love to build things, and I usually am the one that puts all the kids’ stuff together when it calls for assembly. Poor Chris- he loves to build stuff too, but I always beat him to it.
15. I can’t stand it when people make fun of our last name. Usually this happens in a checkout line when a clerk makes a snide comment about it. I’m shocked that someone would be so low class as to bring something so far in the past to light. And no- we are not related to those Bobbetts. They spell their name completely differently anyway. Even if we were related, is it really ever appropriate to make fun of someone?
16. When I am sick, I love to be fussed over. Being a good nurse is not one of Chris’s strong suits- so being sick is absolute torture.
17. While I love a good party, and being with lots of friends, for the most part I really like peace and quiet. That’s part of what is most challenging about having young kids. It gets so loud sometimes, I have to go stand in my closet and just close my eyes for a minute or two.
18. This third pregnancy is both the quickest and most tiring I’ve had yet. I’m not sure I could ever care for three kids while being pregnant. Good thing we’re going to be done with 3.
19. I love music and miss playing guitar more than I miss playing violin.
20. I want to take up running again. I ran a lot in college and have never been in such good shape. Of course, there were no children back then…
21. In general, I don’t like sitting at the computer. It feels like such a waste of time. I’d rather talk on the phone, or even better- in person, to catch up.
22. I wish I could travel much more than we get to.
23. The only regret I have about college is that I didn’t go to Italy for the semester I had planned on going. Even though I didn’t finish up my architecture degree, it would have been totally worth it.
24. I absolutely love reading a good book. I read very fast and can easily zip through a few books in a week if they are good. I love the library and go there quite often.
25. Now I’m going to put my kids in bed, go to home depot for paint samples, and come home to finish upholstering the headboard we made for Amai’s bed over the weekend. Maybe I’ll stop at the library while I’m out, too.
Well, I tried my best to find a way to save Asher’s tooth from being pulled. But it had to go. It was abscessed and in case your child ever has an abscessed tooth, they pull ‘em no matter what. For an adult, a dentist would try a root canal and other procedures to save your tooth. But for a child who will lose said tooth in a few years, and who wouldn’t possibly be able to go through a root canal even if you would want to spend that money on a tooth that is eventually doomed anyway- they pull ‘em.
We had to be there at 7:50 this morning. It was a mad dash to get us all dressed, fed, and out the door by 7:30 (kindergarten is going to be a rough adjustment in the fall.) We got there and after having all weekend to gather my nerves I had come to the conclusion that I would go in with him no matter how horrible it was. I would rather be with him than sitting in the waiting room listening to him scream. But the hygenist looked at my pregnant belly and said, “I think it might actually be better if his daddy comes back so he can hold him down.” So I waited in the waiting room with Amai.
By God’s grace, she had to go to the bathroom right about the time he would probably start screaming. And she took forever, so all I could do was pray for my “baby” who was surely enduring hell in the dentist’s chair. I thanked Him the whole time I was waiting for Amai to finish that I wasn’t sitting in the waiting room, listening helplessly to Asher scream.
We came out of the bathroom and had not even gotten back into our seats in the waiting room when I heard them open the door and bring my crying son out. I rushed to him, but he looked furious and wouldn’t let me hold him. His upper lip was swolen from the shot and I could see just a little blood on his lower lip, but mainly I saw that he wasn’t sad- he was throwing a temper tantrum. “This is strange” I thought.
Then I looked at the dentist and hygenist. The hygenist said, “That was just amazing. He didn’t cry once during the whole procedure. He let me put the numbing ointment on his gums without even moving. Then he let the dentist give him two shots without crying or fighting. And the tooth pulling was the same- no tears.”
“Well, what made him cry?” I asked.
“We took the toy that we let him hold away from him after it was all over.”
Figures. I’m so relieved it’s over. So sad to see that hole in his mouth. But so glad he wasn’t in pain. Just for the record- I cried when we got in the car anyway. I’m pregnant, I can’t help it!
I’ll post a picture later if I can get him to smile for me. Who knew that the tooth fairy would visit our second child first?
I’m back from MOPS Convention, and I’m going to have to write another post to capture all my thoughts on it. It was incredible though. Just an awesome time where I got to get away and have some alone time, some girlfriend time, some God time. I had a lot of fun, and thought I’d go ahead and post some pictures of it.
Sitting in one of the general sessions. From left: Karen, me, Amy, Kimberly, Farrel
Moms really do rock! Back row, left to right: Amy, Janet, Me, Kimberly. Front row: Farrel, Tina, Karen.
Plumb performed- she is one of my all time favorite Christian artists.
Lynn Spears actually showed up! You should have seen how many flashes were going off while she spoke.
Avalon was the final performance before the convention ended.
My sister-in-law also got to come, but had to leave early due to all three of her kids getting hit with the awful stomach virus that’s going around. Karen had to leave one night early as well, and it turns out that her son Mason had to go to the hospital with a very bad case of pneumonia. Our friend Steph actually had her son in the same hospital the night Mason was admitted, due to him having an episode where he stopped breathing while he was asleep. All that to say- there are lots of moms needing prayer.
I apologize for this post not being more meaty- I installed a completely new closet shelving system in Amai’s closet today and I’m wiped out. I will definitely post more on Convention later. Look for “Moms Rock, part 2.”
And in case you want to see how tired I am, we took our weekly pregnancy pic tonight. I’ve missed several weeks because we’ve been so busy and there really hasn’t been any change yet. Check it out though- once Chris puts it in the slideshow you can see what I look like when I get really tired.
ps- sorry the pics are so dark. My camera is not the best. One day…
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