25 Random Things

My list from FB when I couldn't sleep the other night.

25. Given the choice between spending money on stuff or an experience I would rather spend the money on making a memory.

24. I have hiked the Grand Canyon 7 times.

23. I shot a hole in one while golfing with my husband and parents.

22. I practiced hypnobirthing and had two relatively short and painless births without medicine.

21. You would never guess if you tasted my prime rib, but I was a vegetarian for 9 years and gave it up when I got married.

20. I am a closet Trekkie. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is one of my all time favorite movies.

19. After ten years of wanting to learn how to sew Roman Shades, I took a class and made them for three windows last summer.

18. I love the library and usually read three books at once- one in the car and two on my nightstand. I usually finish one a week.

17. I spent a semester dissecting a human cadaver in college. I learned that while I will donate my organs, I will not donate my body to science and I want to be cremated.

16. I majored in anthropology as an undergrad. I loved field work and went on archaeology digs and traveled up and down the Baja of Mexico doing ethnography.

15. I earned a MBA. Considering I was an archaeologist working at a museum and had never taken a business class in college, I figured the admitting committee was going to laugh at me, so I beat them to it and titled my personal statement "Indiana Jones and the Quest for the MBA".

14. My husband would meet me before economics class to help me with my homework in grad school. This was before we started dating and he has definitely proved to be a wonderful helpmate.

13. I enjoy public speaking and used to give presentations at conferences.

12. I have anxiety over buying gifts for people. My dad is the exception because he always wants a box of golf balls.

11. My first job was cleaning mobile homes for my parent's business. It was a good way to "learn the value of an education" especially in the summer when there was no air conditioning.

10. We live two streets away from my brother in law and his family. We have extended family dinners three times a week on average between Marc's and my family.

9. We know all of our neighbors on our street.

8. I actually listened to the American Academy of Pediatrics about not letting kids watch TV and we have a not TV rule during the day. So when Marc comes home to a house of mayhem, at least he knows I wasn't sitting on the couch watching tv and eating bon-bons all day.

7. I had a friend in college who got married and had a decent inheritance from her grandmother. When they divorced a couple of years later, they split the debt, so when I was dating to get married my non-negotiable weed out question was "Do you pay off your credit card every month?"

6. I would be a terrible wife and mother if I didn't have the friends and support of the other mothers I know and talk to both online and in real life.

5. I love "hand me downs" and dread the day my kids are "too cool" to wear them.

4. My daughter is deathly allergic to sesame seeds and we carry an epi pen everywhere we go. You would not believe the vigilance I have towards those little seeds.

3. My daughter has a zest for life that is contagious. She enriches our lives so much.

2. My son is the child I always pictured when I thought of having kids. His laugh is my favorite sound in the whole world.

1. I believe in the power of prayer.