Snap!

Maggie was starting to fuss in her swing a few minutes ago. I wanted to keep playing on the computer (selfish mommy!), and nothing was expressly wrong with my offspring, so I raised my left hand in the air and snapped my fingers.

The baby laughed! She grinned and gurgled appreciatively as if to say, “Gee my mom knows me. She just knew that nothing in the world would make me happier right this very instant than to see snapping fingers!”

I stopped and about a minute later she yelled in boredom again. “I want to get out of this confounded swing! Once again, I raised my hand and snapped.

“What’s that you say? Fingers, huh. And they snap. That is so cool. Wait! What was I fussing about? Oh. . . I can’t remember. . .but look- fingers!”

Five minutes go by. Child fusses. Mother snaps. Problem solved.

In the words of Paul Reiser, “Congratulations, you have momentarily outwitted an infant!”

100 Things

100 things. . .because everybody’s doing it!

1. I am five foot three and 3/4th inches tall.

2. My favorite thing that I own is my Canon Digital Rebel It rocks!

3. I have two children.

4. I hate being pregnant.

5. I spend a lot of time at Barnes & Noble.

6. I love lefse.

7. My Gramma makes the world’s best lefse.

8. I am 51% Norwegian.

9. I have been happily married for almost four years.

10. I am originally from North Dakota.

11. I was an English major.

12. I used to sing and dance in a show choir. I’ve performed at Disney World.

13. I am a published scrapbooker.

14. I have been scrapbooking for 13 years.

15. I am LDS.

16. I am an oldest child.

17. I attended four years of seminary and two years of religious institute.

18. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.

19. I love Easter candy the best.

20. I am an Air Force wife.

21. I am not a patient person. Not even a little bit.

22. I love to garden.

23. I love to eat; but I don’t enjoy cooking.

24. I rolled in a car 3.5 times and walked away unscathed ( I was not driving).

25. I have never been pulled over (even though I deserve it).

26. I played the guitar before my son was born.

27. I am a Scorpio.

28. I take a lot of pictures.

29. I love Diet Coke w/ Lime.

30. I would prefer to eat at Burger King, but McDonald’s has better Happy Meal toys.

31. I adore Mexican food. I would eat it every day if I could.

32. I need a lot of me time or I’m not a very good mother.

33. I worked at a Balloon store. We decorated events. My boss would drink on the job.

34. I got married when I was 19.

35. No regrets.

36. I volunteered at a nursing home for 6 years.

37. I love elderly people.

38. I have very vivid dreams.

39. I enjoy sewing, but I’m not very good at it.

40. I don’t like ice in my drinks.

41. I frequently escape to the bathtub and take long hot baths.

42. I read in the bathtub.

43. I used to tutor English.

44. I had an epidural with Jonas.

45. The epidural didn’t work at all with Maggie so that was natural.

46. Labor wasn’t so bad. Delivery was horrid.

47. I breastfed both kids.

48. I think co-sleeping is a good thing.

49. I do not believe in abortion as a means of birth control. But I think there are circumstances where it is ok (rape, incest, life of mother in danger.)

50. I believe in being responsible.

51. Flies gross me out.

52. I like cows.

53. I can drive an automatic or a clutch.

54. I drove 100 mph once. I drive 80mph frequently.

55. I get more nervous driving in rain than in snow.

56. I think guacamole is wonderful.

57. I love old movies.

58. I have very eclectic taste in music.

59. I scare easily.

60. I don’t watch scary movies for that reason.

61. I have a working knowldege of how to find my way around San Francisco.

62. I have no sense of direction.

63. I hate it when people whistle.

64. I also hate it when people are late or when I am late. That is my biggest pet peeve.

65. I like to go camping, but I don’t get to very often.

66. Whenever I move somewhere I try to learn the names of the local flora.

67. It makes me feel at home.

68. The only place that I have disliked living or visiting is Texas.

69. I get along better with people much older than me than with my peers.

70. I was married in Manti, UT. Here.

71. Horses are beautiful, but they make me nervous.

72. I had a 4-wheeler flip over on top of me.

73. I got 5 scholarships when I went to college.

74. I played Chava in Fiddler on the Roof.

75. I hated the dating scene.

76. I have been in the ocean surrounded by jellyfish.

77. I didn’t get stung because I was clinging to life on top of a boogie board.

78. Both of my children were planned pregnancies.

79. I had a barracuda swim so close to me he brushed by my belly.

80. I don’t go swimming in the ocean much because weird stuff seems to happen to me.

81. I like the color green because it goes with everything.

82. I like purply periwinkle the best though.

83. I have a lot of Pampered Chef stuff.

84. I hate math.

85. I think most of the stuff you learn in High School is useless.

86. I love to read, but I don’t get to very often.

87. I really enjoy Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston. And Harry Potter books.

88. I think Alan Rickman is hot.

89. I like Oscar the Grouch.

90. Elmo bugs me.

91. My daughter looks just like me. My son looks like my husband.

92. I have a younger brother and sister. They don’t update much.

93. I like to talk.

94. I spent 7 weeks in the hospital when I was expecting my son.

95. Both my babies were preemies, but healthy.

96. I can’t carry a baby past 30 weeks w/o medical intervention.

97. I love chocolate and eat it every day.

98. I wear contacts. I’m just about blind w/o them.

99. I never feel my age. I always feel about fourty something or about twelve.

100. This list took me an hour and a half!

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