Thursday, June 08, 2006

1. I have always wanted to get married and be a mom

2. I really love coffee

3. Only my kids think I have a good singing voice

4. I really love to read

5. The beach is the most peacfull place to me

6. I have moved 9 times in the 6 years I have been married

7. I have almost always owned a cat

8. I am not much of a dog person

9. I have one sister

10. I am the oldest

11. I have close friends from the 4th grade

12. I love to travel

13. Mexican food is my favorite

14. I have a secret love of the singer Pink

15. I have a not so secret love of Gilmore Girls

16. I have had both of my babies at home in the water

17. I went to one year of Bible college

18. I love the library

19. I have a weird love of the post office

20. I chose to have my kids call me, mama, because I thought it was harder to whine.

21. I have a big extended family

22. I enjoy giving gifts

23. I love to have fresh flowers in the house

24. I don't like crossword puzzels and worry that I will grow old and be stupid because they are supposed to keep you smart

25. I am not a great cook but I am trying

26. I like to go on bike rides

27. I get a strange giddiness about farmers markets. I just love all the sights and smells of the fresh food

28. People think that I look like I am 16 when I am really 27

29. My kids make me laugh the most

30. I don't like being a tourist

31. I like cites

32. I am older than my husband by 2 and a half years

33. I like to be organized but it is hard with small children

34. I love to swim

35. I want my kids to love to swim

36. I read the paper every morning and I think that is very "old" of me

37. I don't like fancy restaurants

38. I don't like book studies very much

39. I am not very good at figuring out computer stuff but I am trying to learn

40. I think my husband is the cutest guy I have ever seen

41. I am getting over my fear of swimming in the ocean

42. I really love both of my parents

43. I think they are the greatest grandparents

44. I just developed motion sickness

45. I live in the city

46. I love living in the city

47. I absolutly have to read before going to sleep or it takes me forever to fall asleep

48. I like making new friends

49. I love watching kids interact and they way it just comes so naturally

50. I like to take naps

51. I got a hook stuck in my thumb when I was young and till this day I have an unnatural fear of hooks

52. I learned to drive on a stick shift car

53. My uncle used to let me drive when I was 12 ( back roads of course)

54. I have watch Reality Bites more times than I can count

55. I don't like scary movies with kids in them

56. My past jobs

57. Ikeda's ( hamburger joint)

58. Round Table

59. Cleaning houses

60. Nanny for 2 boys

61. Nanny for 1 baby

62. coffee shop

63. Nanny for my future sister in law ( four kids) and Trader Joe's in San Francisco

64.Trader Joe's in Sacramento

65. Stay at home mom

66. I have a secret love for magazines

67. I have never been in an accident

68. My grandma made my wedding dress

69. I am not good at sewing

70. I like to go to garage sales

71. I like to learn about other cultures

72. I look just like my mom and sister

73. I like to play board games

74. I wish I was more creative

75. I grew up in Auburn, Ca

76. I never thought I would end up in Sacramento but I love it here

77. I try not to take myself to seriously

78. I need to have some alone time or I go a bit crazy

79. I helped my husband open a coffee shop three months after having my first baby

80. I went to India on a Dicipleship Training School with YWAM

81. I have spent three summers in Mexico at an orphanage

82. I have been a Chistian my whole life ( or at least as much as I can remember)

83. I really enjoy holidays

84. I am a big fan of NPR ( National Public Radio

85. I do not know much about music but I like to listen to it

86. I think Northern California is the best place to live

87. I really like being a mom

88. People's toenails gross me out

89. I played vollyball and basketball in highschool and was not good at either of them

90. I think that we should all observe tea time and siestas. I think we would all be happier people

91. I like to have people at my house

92. My goal is that people would feel comfortable at my house and just stop by sometimes

93. I have a birth mark on my leg that is the exact same as my moms on her arm

94. I was know as a very talkative kid, just ask any of my family

95. One of my best childhood memories is working with my dad

96. I have a great-grandma that is alive and I named my daughter after her

97. I can make almost any car ride into a road trip with one stop at a gas station ( a big giant coke and some sunflower seeds)

98. I like to watch soccer and baseball

99. I am incredibly thankful for my life