100 things you might want to know about me (or not!)

1. I love being a mommy.
2. I love being able to stay at home every day with Lawton.
3. I love the one day a week that he goes to Mother's Day Out.
4. I love that Chad wants me to stay home and works so hard to make sure it is a possibility.
5. I have married the most wonderful, kind-hearted, calm man.
6. I am an extreme extrovert.
7. Chad is an extreme introvert.
8. Since marrying, I have become more introverted and he has become more extroverted.
9. I love things to be organized and for things to have their place.
10. I hate to clean, especially the bathrooms!
11. I don't mind vacuuming.
12. I love chocolate, especially dark chocolate!
13. My all time favorite ice cream is Haagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream.
14. I love Sonic.
15. I used to be a Cracker Barrel waitress.
16. I still like to eat there - especially their cornbread with blackberry jelly.
17. I haven't had a caffienated beverage since May of 2004.
18. I can be hyper enough without it!
19. I like to decorate . . . I just wish I had an endless budget! :)
20. I'm a scrapbooker, but have to be in the mood.
21. I like to sew.
22. I like to paint, but again have to be in the mood.
23. I hate for my feet to be dirty - I am never barefooted, even in my house!
24. My toenails are always painted, my fingernails are never painted!
25. You will never catch me out of the house without at least mascara and earrings - never!
26. I played basketball in high school - don't worry if you didn't know this - I was TERRIBLE!
27. My specialty was fouling at the end of the game because I USED TO BE very fast!
28. Everyone used to call me LB, and some still do.
29. Chad will never call me LB because someone unnamed used to call me that.
30. Chad and I both agree that we never would have dated if we met early in college.
31. I'm glad the timing worked out where we could meet and fall in love!
32. I am certified to teach Pre-K through 8th grade.
33. I hope I never have to use the upper end of my certification!
34. I am thankful there are people out there who love middle-schoolers!
35. I was a nursing major until my junior year in college.
36. I finally realized that I would never get over my queasiness of blood and guts.
37. When I see people with bandages that might look like they may have serious injuries, I almost throw up.
38. However, for some strange reason, Anatomy and Physiology (for an entire year) was my favorite class in college.
39. I didn't know the cadavers, they were experiencing no pain, and there was no blood.
40. This is my only explanation for #38.
41. I am glad that my parents didn't freak out for too long after I changed my major.
42. I have the greatest parents - they have always believed in me and told me I could achieve anything.
43. I have the greatest sister!
44. She is pregnant with her first and due in March.
45. We are all excited!
46. I have the best in-laws ever, too.
47. I truly feel as if I am their daughter.
48. I feel as if my sister-in-law, Emily, is my sister.
49. Oh yeah, my three brother-in-laws are great too. :)
50. Chad and I are do-it-yourselfers (with a lot of help from our dads).
51. Sometimes we shouldn't be do-it-yourselfers.
52. We redid our bathroom this summer.
53. I will have to post picture to show you why. Auggghhh!
54. Chad and I did all the tiling ourselves and it was very satisfying . . . in the end!
55. Sometimes on Sunday nights, and only Sunday nights, I will have a coke and popcorn for dinner.
56. My mom used to do this growing up.
57. We went on some fun trips growing up. I hope we will be able to do the same with our family and create some great memories like I have.
58. One favorite was our "Wild West" two week trip.
59. Another was our trip to New England, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
60. Our first trip (besides our honeymoon) was seriously a Chevy Chase National Lampoon's disaster vacation.
61. It's funny now, but wasn't then.
62. Ask me about it sometime, it's too long to blog.
63. Chad and I love NYC and have been there so many times.
64. Camp Shiloh is near and dear to our hearts.
65. I was very close to moving to NYC, but I met Chad.
66. I don't regret my decision to stay! :)
67. I know that God has a plan for my life - and that thought is so exciting!
68. My biggest fear in life is that something will happen to Chad or Lawton.
69. I don't consider myself a worrier.
70. Unfortunately, I can be pretty anal about certain things.
71. I have loosened up a lot.
72. I also consider myself pretty laid back in certain aspects.
73. Is that a possibility?
74. I like to bake, especially for other people.
75. I never bake for us, because I am the only one who would eat it. (Chad does not eat desserts). Therefore, I cannot blame the whole pie disappearing on anyone else. Lawton??? No.
76. I taught at a Montessori school for three years and loved it.
77. I felt like people think Montessori methods are strange, and therefore thought I was strange.
78. It is excellent for early childhood education.
79. I would send Lawton to a Montessori school when he turns three, but 1) they are so expensive and 2) I couldn't bear to send him to school five days a week yet.
80. I like to dip Wendy's fries into a Frosty. You should try it!
81. I have a newly found taste for turnip greens. . . but have no idea how to cook them. I just order them from Cracker Barrel.
82. I love to watch the Yankees play, espcially in the playoffs.
83. Green is my favorite color.
84. I have only "owned" two cars in my life.
85. My first car was a "tin can" black '88 Chevy Nova.
86. I gave it back to my parents when I bought my '00 gold Honda Accord which I still drive.
87. Cars are not important to me.
88. I only know what a handful of my friends drive, I just don't pay attention. Sorry!
89. I am very intuitive about other things and notice details that most people wouldn't.
90. I can't wait to take Lawton to Disney for the fist time.
91. We don't have a trip planned.
92. My favorite movie was, and I guess still is, Annie.
93. My favorite book growing up was Little Women. I still remember where I was when I read about Beth. (I won't give it away if you haven't read it.)
94. I love to take pictures and looking back at old ones.
95. We are probably the only people we know that doesn't have a digital camera.
96. I love my film camera!
97. I am so ready for cool weather!
98. I have gotten too addicted to blogging in the past month and a half.
99. I am glad that I started, though, because I have been able to catch up with so many friends!
100. Hopefully you haven't been too bored by my writing!

I tag Candie, Kristy, April and Karie!