20 Questions for CafeMoms

10 Questions on Motherhood!

1. How old are your children? – 5
2. How old were you when you had your first child? – 21
3. Did you know the sex before you gave birth? – No, but was 85% sure it was a boy
4. Did you and your SO fight over names? Who won? – Actually, no, we both fought with the grandparents…. and they kinda won….
5. What did you crave most while pregnant? – Nothing actually…. No, I take that back, Fazoli’s. But there are non in Alaska….
6. How many diapers do you think you’ve changed? – All, but maybe 2 lol
7. How did you react the first time you left your children with someone else? – Nerves as all hell, still am.
8. What’s the best part of being a mom? – The hugs.
9. What’s the hardest thing about being a mom? – Dealing with kid drama….
10. How many times a day do you hear the word “Mom”? – A lot!

10 Questions Just for Fun!

1. Where were you born? Do you still live there? – Sioux City, Ia., Nope, actually have spent very little time there…
2. Are you an only child? – I was until I was 14, then I started to gain step-siblings… But technically, I am an only child again.
3. What’s your favorite book/TV show/movie/song/color? – Oh that is a very long list…. not one I will post for now.
4. Who do you most admire? – My grandma.
5. What word or phrase do you say constantly? – no clue.
6. Where is the furthest place that you’ve ever been from home? – That is a bit hard of a question… due to the military life, home is everywhere.
7. How many pairs of shoes do you own? – 4. Two tennis shoes and two boots.
8. Are you are an early bird or a night owl? – Night owl.
9. If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? – oh, tough choice. The few foods I like, I like alot.
10. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done? – Besides move to Alaska (from Arizona), leaving family and friends behind while I get married to a man I hardly knew (in person) that had just divorced and has custody of three kids? Not sure.

Friday Fun: The Blog Edition

1. What different blog formats have you used (i.e. Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress, your own HTML, etc.? Which did you like the best?
I started out in regular HTML and a Notepad. Then I found Blogger, heard that it could go into a website, but found it worth more trouble then not. Went back to HTML/Notepad until Greymatter. I loved it, but it had a simple problem of not stopping spam. I hated dealing with the spam comments. I moved over to OpenDiary.com and stayed with them for a couple years, then found wordpress. I have been with wordpress pretty much ever since. I did try out LiveJournal and liked them, but I hated writing in so many places… I have tried many different blogging places trying to find a “safe” place to blog.

2. How did you get into blogging? How long have you had a blog?
I started blogging when I got pregnant with my little man to keep family involved. I also had a family “blog” to let Jen know how the kids were, but that got taken down because she never went to it, instead lurked on mine. I really got into blogging when Kevin got deployed and he was able to read, and that was March of 2003.

3. Why do you blog?
I blog because it is what I enjoy. I enjoy writing and what better thing to write about, then my life. I blog to vent, to keep family involved, to clear my mind.

4. Do you have theme blog (i.e. crafting, cooking, deployment, pregnancy, etc.) or is it all in one?
My blog is a combination of everything… I will blog about being a step-family, I will be a “mommy” blog, I will blog about military, or anything else that comes to mind when I sit to write… That is why I have sooo many different categories.

5. Do you let it all hang out on your blog, or do you keep it light?
For public viewing, I lighten it a little… I let loose a little more in the “membership” section, and I really vent in totally private sections. Sometimes I let more hang out then normal when I really get into a writing mood, but normally, I try to keep things leveled.

6. What is your favorite thing about your blog? What has it given you?
That my friends visit me here. Even thou they hardly venture from the OpenDiary site where we all met, they have ventured out and have connected with me here… What has it given me, their love…..

1. Intimidated ::New
2. Brush ::Teeth
3. Masquerade ::Truth
4. Procedure ::Change
5. Tattoos ::Art
6. Square ::Shape
7. Tuck ::Hide
8. Boyfriend :: Husband
9. Badass:: Scared
10. Thousand :: Thoughts

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Why is it every time I try to do the domestic house wife thing, something always comes along to ruin a good thing? Today I planned to scrub the kitchen down so I could put raw chicken out for dinner. I planned on making a huge pan of Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo with garlic bread sticks and a glass of wine. The full plan was to:

• take the Robots dvd back to the shoppette
• look for the cork stopper for the wine bottle
• Pick up pool supplies at the BX
• Pick up fettuccine and bread sticks from the commissary
• head off base to Sam’s Club for the wine

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