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100 things about me part 3

51. I love music
52. I rock out with my kids in the car, doing dishes, doing yard work, ok anytime they have music on.
52. I love all kinds of music. country, classical, jazz, big band, kids rock music, you get the point.
52. I played the piano for 11 years give or take a couple.
53. I can't sight read very well and only have a handful of songs that I know after all of those years of lessons.
54. I played the violin for a short period of time. My mom said I had and incredible amount of talent for playing but all I can remember is the e string squeaking and it drove me nuts. I quit to go play the piano.
55. I love to sing and wish I was better at it.
56. Mark and I were both in the top auditioned choir our senior year of high school
57. I think my favorite kind of music is big band. I love Frank Sinatra! Michael Buble has a lot of big band as well and I love his music too!
58. I have a simple sense of humor.
59. The muppets still make me laugh!
60. Yesterday I watched the dentist skit from the Carol Burnett show twice and laughed harder the second time than I did the first time I watched it.
61. I want to visit Italy sometime in my life before I am to old to enjoy it.
62. I have a really hard time justifying traveling. I keep thinking there other things more sensible that I should be spending my money on. (I get that from my dad who didn't believe in family vacations, and I hate that I do the same thing)
63. I love decorative stars and have for a long time even before they were popular.
64. I have loved Winnie the Pooh since before it was popular as well.
65. I collect Santas at Christmas. I am really particular about what they look like though. Santa reminds me of my dad who plays santa every year and is really good at it. My kids are convinced that he is THE real thing and, darn it, he is in my book.
66. I love to play games, especially card games like uno and phase 10
67. I love the parenting with Love and Logic approach
68. I am a strong proponent of natural consequences for my children's actions.
69. I think I am a better teenager mom than a toddler mom.
70. I think potty training is the worst part of motherhood.
71. I love Giving Birth and hate pregnancy.
72. I am happy to be done with the baby rearing years of my life and at the same time wish we were having another baby.
73. I struggle with yelling at my kids but I am much better than I used to be. (thank goodness my older kids can't remember those early days)
74. Prayer and the Lord's help is the reason I am a better mom than I used to be.
75. Noise is the number 1 thing that puts me over the edge as a mom.

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Marci said…
Don't stop at 100! I love reading all of these things about you.
4/16/2008 10:46 PM
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