2. Raisin Bran. I cannot control myself when it comes to this great cereal. After Liam was born, it was all I ate for a good two weeks. No lie. I went through about 6 of those super huge jumbo boxes of Raisin Bran. I then put myself into Raisin Bran Detox and quit it cold turkey for about 4 months. Long story short, I fell off the wagon and am back on the Bran. I can't help myself.
3. I have a problem with thinking we have too little or none of certain things in our household and continually buy these items until one day realising that no one on earth really needs 25 boxes of cereal in their pantry. Or 300 rolls of toilet paper...or almost 100 children's movies when really the only time they're watched is on long car rides...Or boxes of Kleenex. I don't know what it is, but those are the things that you can be guaranteed are in my shopping cart if I'm at Wal*Mart.
4. Wrapping paper is another weakness of mine. I currently have roughly 60+ rolls of Christmas Wrapping paper. I love this stuff. I love the colours and patterns and the glitter and sparkle! Every year I buy rediculous amounts of the stuff. This year we weren't actually able to use every single roll. Too much paper, too few gifts.
5. I really really really REALLY love my kids. Really. But I often find myself dreaming of the days before babies. Before sleepless nights, before incredible responsibility. I wouldn't change having my children for anything, but on the days where it's really stressfull and nothing is going right, I do think about the childless days. If for nothing else, than the fact that every weekend my husband and I slept in until ELEVEN in the morning. Can you believe that?
6. I love to read. I find an author I love and then read every single book they've ever written, and then get sad when I'm done and have to go searching for a new author. I'm anal about the treatment of my books and often won't lend them to anyone for fear of them being bent or having the cover cracked. I also never fully open my book when reading. You can hardly tell that any books on my bookshelf have ever been read because there's no creases or bends or anything saying they've ever been handled. My books are sacred!
7. I don't regret not going to post secondary school. My dream was always to get married and have babies. I saw no need then, nor do I now to have gone to school to learn how to birth and raise children. Maybe when my babes are older (and we close down the Thackeray baby factory) will I rethink my decision, but for now, I'm 1000% happy with the way my life has turned out!
8. I hate cleaning my kitchen. I will clean every bathroom, bedroom, and living room if I just don't have to clean the kitchen. On that note, I also hate having a messy kitchen, so that leaves me in a bit of a pickle.
9. I could sit all night and watch my babes sleep. I'm always sneaking into their rooms at night to take pictures and just drink them in. They look so peaceful and calm and perfect. Not to say that when they're awake they're not perfect, but there's something about a sleeping babe that takes my breath away.
10. I have very few friends, but the ones I have, I love to death. They mean the world to me. Most of my friends are people I grew up with. I don't make friends easily, but I hold on for dearlife to the friendships I have. I can count the number of friends I have on one hand, and that doesn't bother me one bit.
11. I hate being pregnant. I love babies, hate the incubation stage. I'm miserable from the time I find out I'm pregnant until the time I deliver. I hate being stretched out and uncomfortable. I hate the morning/noon/night sickness I get for the entire pregnancy. That being said, I do love feeling the little peanut move in my belly. Up until a certain point and then it just hurts and I go back to being annoyed! There really is no pleasing me. Period.
12. The smell of a newborn is my drug of choice. I could just breathe in their scent all day everyday. I get sad when they start to lose the 'newborn smell'.
13. Keeping with the baby theme...my favourtie part of a newborn baby is their ankles! I LOOOVE the scrawny little chicken ankles that babies have! I love the little folds of skin that gather and how big baby feet look on baby ankles!
14. I'm dying to have another baby...can you tell?
15. I'm terrified of Global Warming. It scares me to death to think that this earth is in jeopardy. I've become obsessed with recycling and reducing my 'carbon footprint'. I'm doing everything I can to make sure that my children are able to raise their children.
16. I have to syke myself up to take a shower. I hate it. I don't like getting wet, especially when it's cold out. I don't like standing there in the water. Showers aren't for me. Baths are all right, except that I can't wash my hair in a bathtub without half drowning myself. So again, in a pickle.
17. I need things to match. Or at least 'go together'. The furniture in my bedroom right now is mismatched, and it almost makes me twitch. I often lay in bed and imagine all my matching furniture and where I'd put it and what i'd fill it up with. I'm a bit of a loser.
18. I try to be frugal, or Cheap...it never seems to work out. I hardly ever buy name brand stuff. I try to buy what's on sale, and still my grocery bill, for example, is never under 200 dollars! Do we really eat that much?
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