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June 16, 2007

Tagged/Interview

I was sent the following questions, from my friend Lori, as an "Interview Tag" and here are my answers!!!
1. How is your adult life different than you would have imagined it as a teenager?
First of all, as a teenager, I had my eyes set on stardom in the theater, television, or as a movie star. Nothing at all like I turned out! I closed in my last performance of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and the next day moved to Oklahoma. I was in two beauty pageants the next year. I taught dancing for a few years and performed one year on stage dancing. THE END of my stardom days! I'm a married, stay at home mom of 3 little ones and 2 older ones. Still the "star" of my home, but in a much different way!
2. What book(s) have you read lately that you would recommend to others?
I have read a lot of "Amish fiction" which I wouldn't recommend unless you are interested in a "plain life," and a lot of nonfiction Amish. I am also currently reading books about Mary Todd Lincoln which are interesting to me, but might not be to someone else. The whole period around the turn of the last century is of interest to me.
3. Who would you be if you weren't you?
If that were even possible . . . I would be my dad's mother and maybe Madonna. No, no, no!!!! Just kidding! Dad's mom, my grandmother!
4. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
I think I live in a pretty good place - Oklahoma USA. Visiting other places doesn't interest me, much. I'm not a big traveler; but, I might enjoy a trip (for a brief time) to Germany where my ancestors were born.
5. What is your favorite color? - periwinkle blue
Favorite ice cream? - chocolaty chocolate
Favorite flower? - peony, magnolia, & hydrangea
Favorite fancy meal? - prime rib with horseradish sauce
Favorite plain meal? - chicken fried chicken with white, cream gravy & mashed potatoes
Favorite salad ingredient - pickled beets
6. Your house is afire. Your whole family is outside and you have time to grab one thing. What will it be?
A laundry basket to clear the house of all my precious pictures and memorabilia (I'm VERY greedy!)
7. What do you think is important to learn for a female who is going to be a professional wife and mother?
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!! So much is not worth carrying on over. Stuff happens in marriages and with your children that just needs to be left alone and forgotten. Find out what you believe (you AND your husband together) and teach those things to your children by verbal instruction and YOUR ACTIONS! Watch your children carefully and be consistent.
8. Name your 5 favorite things about Jesse.
1) His sense of humor - the best I've ever been around.
2) His compassionate and kind nature.
3) His commitment to being a Christian man, husband, & father.
4) His dependability and consideration of calling me when he'll be late.
5) His generous spirit and joy (like mine) in having company in our home.
6) His warm body on a cold night. No matter how tired, he never minds waking up and throwing his arm around me when I'm freezing (or have had a nightmare).
7) Okay, I'll stop!
9. Name your 5 favorite things about yourself.
1) My sense of humor.
2) My Pollyanna spirit - the ability to find SOMETHING to be glad about.
3) My cooking and entertaining skills.
4) My eye for decorating and the enjoyment it brings me.
5) This should have been #1. My commitment to my Christian values.

Now it's your turn to play if you wish!

Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me." I will respond by asking you five, six, ten or a dozen (why be limited?) questions. I get to pick the questions, and I will message you with them and these directions. Just update your blog with the answers to the questions and include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five or however many questions.