Celebrating 100 Posts!

In celebration of my 100^th post, here are 100 things about THE Mommy.  Hopefully you will learn something new.

1. Mother to 5 year old Princess and 2 year old BamBam
2. Currently live in THAT, Rochester, NH
3. Would love to move to Charleston, SC or Dallas, TX
4. Been married to THE Daddy for 6 ½ years, together for 10 ½ years…time flies
5. Love the word and the movie “Serendipity”
6. Addicted to Starbucks since they moved to town a couple of months ago.
7. I got gel nails put on for my friend wedding in September and have kept them ever since.
8. I like my in-laws…apparently that is abnormal
9. Actually built a house in Aruba with my in-laws
10. Lived in their basement apartment at the time
11. BamBam’s middle name is our Aruban best friend’s last name
12. Will be spending 3 weeks in Aruba around Christmas and New Years this year
13. I never used to get anxious before flying, until 9/11
14. Love living in NH for 8 ½ months of the year
15. Hate winter…cold, snow, ice all suck.
16. Driving my car into a tree during a small snow storm reinforced my hate for winter
17. Coach high school softball at my old high school
18. Won the State Championship in 2007
19. Donated Stem Cells to a 21 year old stranger with leukemia
20. Swear the process has made my own immune system stronger
21. Got food poisoning from Ethiopian food in France the night before being the Matron of Honor in my cousin’s wedding
22. Got e-coli in Aruba after eating their traditional goat soup on New Years Day
23. (my favorite number)
24. Not so adventurous with food these days
25. Love to cook and entertain
26. Have a full-sized bar in our basement
27. We even have beer on tap
28. I don’t drink beer
29. I promised God when I was 16 that I would never drink beer again
30. Apparently she was listening and has forced me to keep my promise
31. Was in a sorority in college (Kappa Delta)
32. Left just 3 classes shy of my degree
33. I kept getting sick…they said I had “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”. I thought that was a BS diagnosis.
34. Never lived in the sorority. I hate how catty girls can be.
35. I get along much better with guys.
36. My favorite t-shirt when I was little read Anything boys can do, girls can do better
37. I wish I still had that shirt
38. On that note, LOVED the movie Gracie.  She reminds me of myself in the 70's...all attitude.
    
39. I’m still friends with a lot of the guys from my high school days.
40. I defy their theory that men and woman cannot be just friends.
41. It pisses one of them off, but makes me laugh
42. Most of them have cool wives now
43. Spent 9 weeks on bed rest when pregnant with BamBam
44. Gestational diabetes saved me from gaining 100lbs while stuck in bed
45. Being forced to stay in bed would be fun for a day or two now
46. Anything good loses it’s appeal when you’re forced to do it for 9 weeks
47. Met Bill and Hilary Clinton in 1995 while working at Ted Danson’s wedding rehearsal dinner on Martha’s Vineyard
48. I found Bill Clinton to be very charismatic and that surprised me because I thought his personal choices made him a scum bag.
49. Have seen BNL live at least 8 times
50. First concert was Bon Jovi with Skid Row when I was 14
    
51. Still think that Jon Bon Jovi is one of the only men still able to pull off leather pants...meow.
52. If Jon Bon Jovi runs for governor of NJ, I might have to move there
53. Princess can pick out Bon Jovi on the radio in a split second
54. She’s my mini-me…with brown eyes
55. My eyes are blue
56. I have a sister one year older than me and a 13 year old step-sister
57. The step-sister is “Auntie Em” to my kids
58. My older sister just married our high school biology teacher
59. He was my favorite teacher
60. That was her third marriage
61. My mom said, in front of my husband, at my sister’s 2^nd wedding that she would give me money for my 2^nd wedding too
62. He’s never forgiven her for that
63. I’m not friends with any of my ex-boyfriends
64. Especially not the one I lived with just before meeting my husband
65. He’s the one I caught calling phone porn numbers… before the days of internet porn
66. He spoke with a phone whore for 30 minutes on my birthday
67. While I was sleeping in the next room
68. I moved in with my best friend and only looked back once
69. I slept with him the night before he left on a 6 week safari in Africa
70. To this day, I’m not sure why
71. I waited for him to come home before really starting to date my husband
72. I fell in love with my husband while waiting for the ex-boyfriend to come home
73. We spent a lot of that time emailing and hanging out with mutual friends
74. I firmly believe that communication is the most important thing in any relationship
75. We have 2 dogs: Jasper the Australian Cattle Dog and Chester, the Australian Shepard
76. Jasper had a bad reaction to a Lyme Disease vaccine and almost died
77. We had to amputate his front toes in order to save him
78. We have had success with chiropractic, homeopathic and herbal remedies for both our dogs and our children.
79. We do not vaccinate our children
80. We aren’t militant anti-vaccination parents
81. We believe in freedom of choice
82. We use a religious exemption for both Princess and BamBam’s schools
83. Princess attends a Catholic school
84. I held my breath when I submitted her exemption form…but was prepared to say, “Doesn’t your God believe in freedom of choice?”
85. I went to 12 years of Catholic School, starting with the same school Princess attends
86. Too many years to count of Sunday School at a Baptist and then a Congregational Church
87. I was never baptized
88. I consider myself more of a Deitist than anything else
89. My political views are complex as well
90. I lean more towards being a Democrat, although I’ll never fully declare allegiance to one party
91. I’ve watched “Days of Our Lives” since I was 2 and my Grammy babysat us
92. I still turn it on for background noise while I work from home
93. I hate how the man who plays Roman was the old Chris Costacheck…and the woman who plays Bonnie Lockhart is the old Adrianne…and they recently brought her back as Adrianne. Gimme a break!  I love Stephano though...and EJ is yummy in a bad boy kind of way
    
94. The actress who plays Hope used to babysit my ex-boyfriend
95. I have a horrible potty mouth and have all I can do not to swear in front of the kids sometimes.
96. I don’t have any tattoos
97. I once said I would get a tramp stamp on my lower back if I could get back into a size 6
98. I’m stuck at a size 8 and doubt I’ll ever see 6 again
99. I have always been, um, well endowed, but my breasts are ridiculous after having and breastfeeding 2 kids. I’m a solid D cup now…on a 5’4”, size 8 frame.
100. When I get frustrated about my post-baby body, I try to remember how sick my little size 4 body was back in college. At least I’m healthy now.

Any surprises?

I'll try not to get all sentimental on you...wouldn't want to scare you away by being uncharacteristically mushy...BUT, thank you for reading and commenting.  I really feel as if I have a forum where I can be myself, completely unfiltered.  I love being a Mom and a Wife, but I get tired of having to be the adult all the time.  The one who has to think before they speak.  I try not to do that here, in case you hadn't noticed.  It's refreshing.  The fact that you keep coming back to read what I have to say is flattering.  I love that I've met parents from all over the world...and we're all trying to accomplish the same thing...raise our kids in a crazy world without becoming one of the crazies ourselves.

Comments

[joeinvegas]

Wow, I am impressed that you can sit down and come up with 100 things. They all are good though.

[BusyDad]

You rock n roll! (thank you thank you thank you!)