7 Random Things

I usually don't do these things, but was tagged by my mother-in-law. So just this once :)

1. "please don't make the nice girl grouchy". This is one of my favorite t-shirts. Too bad it shrunk after I washed it the first time.

2. My first non-classical music concert I went to was to see Weird Al Yankovic when he played at the Arizona State Fair in 1999. It was kinda lame, although I think he has some great talent.

3. I *love* bacon. However, not in the sense that I crave it, like some people do ice cream or sweets. And it's not a food that I can sit down and just eat a lot of. But I just love the flavor. If you bring over a dish to Sunday dinner and it includes bacon, you can betcha I'm gonna be having some of it! One of my new favorite salads includes the following:

• 6oz fresh spinach, washed & dried
  
• 6 hard boiled eggs, sliced
• red grapes
• sliced mushrooms
• 1 pound crumbled bacon
• served with Lite Raspberry Pomegranate dressing - YUM!

4. During a friend's sleepover birthday party, her older sister drove us to a neighborhood to go t.p.ing. We thought we were "decorating" a boy's house from school, but apparently we had the wrong house. A man opened his front door and swore at us! We all took off running, and he tried chasing after us in his car. It was scary, but we hid in bushes and escaped safely back home! I think were about 12 years old at the time. And I'm almost certain we never went out doing this again :)

5. I never went to any high school proms. And I'm not sad about it. I didn't even get asked, so it's not like I had to turn some down some dorky guy who I didn't want to go with anyway. I also didn't see the point in spending a lot of money and time trying to find a dress and shoes, and then get your hair done, and makeup, and then stand in line forever to get pictures, which would never see the light of day after you get married to a completely different man! I'm a practical person. Oh, and my hubby never went to any either. What can you say... we were meant for each other :)

6. I took one of my younger sister's camping so she could have a reason to turn down a prom date she didn't want to go with. The two of us had a fabulous time! Now that's not really being mean, is it? She was just saving both of them a lot of time and money really.

7. I would love to be a librarian. In the past few years, I've recently found a love of reading and think it would be so fun to help children discover a love of reading books as well. I remember my elementary school librarian, Mrs. Bond, reading stories out loud to our class, and how she would show excitement and use different voices to make if more fun. I still remember some of those stories today.



Now I tag: whoever is in the mood and wants to share!

Time for a funnier post after that somber 1 hour 44 min one :)

Some updated pictures of Carson. He's 3 months old in this set and loves sitting in the bath water. Mommy gets credit for making him laugh.







(don't worry, I made sure these were rated-G pictures)




Oh and this video will make any dad laugh that's gone through or is going through life with children:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Oh and we haven't had a repeat of the 1:44 episode

One hour and forty-four minutes

Yup. That's how long I endured Carson's crying this evening before he finally went to sleep. Don't worry - I didn't just ignore him. I checked on him every 10-15 minutes and tryed soothing him by giving back his pacifier he'd spit out and humming two verses of "I Am A Child of God." Let's just say he wasn't interested in either of those, and just screamed even louder! Now I'm exhausted and ready to sleep myself! I am quite surprised I didn't give in by picking him up and rocking him to sleep (which is what we've been doing for several weeks now, and even that method is met with resistance). But I told myself that we have to have a better sleep schedule so that I can actually function better each day. For the past 3 months now, I dread every morning because while Danny is leaving for work about 8:20am, I'm usually crawling back into bed trying to get some more sleep after dealing with Carson all through the night...okay, and from all the day before too...and the day before that :) Then when the Little Man wakes up, I anxiously await for an hour or two to pass for when he'll fall asleep again so I can go back to bed too! I'll be honest and say I'm not very productive before 1pm. Unfortunately, Carson's daytime naps tend to be only 30 minutes long (although all the books say they should be about 1-2 hours!), which doesn't give me anytime to get things done around the house. And then by the time I do actually lay down, it's only a brief 10 minutes later he's crying and awake and we start all over again! So it's time to kick things in gear, and start off the New Year with some good habits :) Hopefully tomorrow night will be less crying.