Tagged!

Okay, Kari tagged me so I'm going to try and get this over with. It goes something like this - there's a list of things that I am supposed to answer about myself and then continue to tag other people to get them to answer the same things.

1. Something about what I was doing ten years ago. That would have been January 1998. I know exactly what Andy was doing in January 2008 - I went to his farewell and he left on his mission. I was in college at the time working on my degree in child development. I graduated the next year in 1999.

2. 5 things on my to-do list today. I'm laughing out loud. They must mean besides all the permanent things on my to-do list that I have to do EVERY day such as laundry, dishes, making Christian's lunch for school, making breakfast, lunches, and dinner for everyone in the family, constant feeding/burping/diapering of Jessica (as well as diapering Declan), bathing and dressing three separate children, trying to squeeze in a shower myself, reading my scriptures, family prayers, having Christian practice his piano both before and after school, etc, etc. I think you get the idea. I had a bazillion 'extra' things on my to-do list yesterday which would have made answering this question much easier. It's also the main reason I didn't get around to posting on my blog. So the 'extra' things for today are...
*Sign up for a yoga class
*Tell Andy that I love him
*Take Christian to Aroet's birthday party after school
*Report my visiting teaching for the month
*Try to accomplish the miracle of having both Declan and Jessica asleep at the same time so I can actually take a ten minute nap myself before one of them gets up. (update - the miracle actually happened and I had exactly ten minutes of blissful sleep)
*One thing I didn't plan on today was picking up my friend's son from school. He had a raging fever, they couldn't reach her, and I am the emergency contact. It's good to know that emergency contacts work. This same friend is the emergency contact for my kids too and I know she'd do the same thing for me in a heartbeat.

3. Snacks I enjoy:
*Chocolate
*Carrot sticks with plain Ruffles potato chips
*Quesadillas made with Tillamook cheese
*cold, crispy red delicious apples (I will throw the whole thing away if it's mushy - and once when I was really tired after Jessica was born I accidentally put a whole bag of apples in the freezer instead of the fridge. whoops. they were definitely cold, but once they thawed they were really, really, mushy)

4. What would I do/buy if I was a billionaire? Buy Andy a truck. A really nice one. Whatever kind he wants. Of course, it will be red. Of course, it will be a Chevy. He deserves it. He sold his really nice red Chevy truck back in 2001 to buy us a house. I owe him. :) Then I would buy him his own trucking company so he could be his own boss. I would also buy a bigger house and have more children. Lots more. My own or adopted. I'd probably also buy every book at Deseret Book even though I couldn't possibly read them all in my lifetime while raising such a large family. Of course, I would also be philanthropic and donate to lots of charities, but lets face it, these are the things I would do first.

5. 3 bad habits I have - We all have bad habits, some that we know we have and others we don't. Most of the ones I know I have (and there's a lot, such as talking way too loud, especially when I'm on the phone) I am actively trying to change. The ones I don't know I have must be the really bad ones that I really should change. Definite food for thought.

6. 5 places I have lived (I can name at least 5 places in the valley alone)
*California
*Oregon
*Nevada
*Utah
*Arizona

7. 5 jobs I have had
*A nanny specializing in families with triplets
*Joann ETC as a crafts specialist
*a filing clerk at Tielberg, Sanders and Park (law firm in downtown Phoenix - I did this at night during college when I was not in class or at another job)
*staging homes for sale
*preschool teacher

8. 5 things people don't know about me
*I am pigeon-toed - I had casts on both of my feet as an infant because of this
*I used to speak spanish fluently and even took a college literature class in spanish (not a single word of english was spoken or read - nothing but spanish) nowadays if I hear someone speaking spanish I usually don't say anything so I can hear if they say anything about me (aha! moment - that is probably a bad habit)
*I collect nativity sets
*I have seen an airbag up close and personal when a semi-truck (doing at least 65) crossed a double yellow line and smashed into the car I was in with my Grandma. We both walked away (her injuries were more serious - the car landed on the drivers side after flipping several times.) Ever since that day I think the Lincoln Continental must be the safest car on the planet by virtue of the fact that we simply survived the accident.
*I had my first kiss as a senior in high school at seventeen. The incredibly lucky guy? My husband, Andy. And I'm an incredibly lucky lady to be married to him.