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Giveaway over at The Paper Mama for a $50 Hallmark gift certificate. Go there, participate, and you might win!! Or don't ~ the rest of us will have a better chance! Ha! ;)

Wee Bit of Me Wednesday ~ November 17th

I've never done Wee Bit of Me Wednesdays. And it's Thursday, technically. But I'm awake. And I feel like writing. So here goes!

{one} what time do you normally wake up?
6:30am. it starts with a rustle. my eyes are closed but i'm awake. i mildly panic & start to worry that i won't be able to fall back asleep (anxiety issues i cannot explain, it really stinks!). then i have to pee. so i creep into the hallway and into the bathroom, praying to the Lord that my children aren't roused because of my getting up, and i creep back into bed and I try desperately (never succeeding) to fall back asleep... inevitably, someone is yelling through their door by 7am "Mommy Daddy I awake!" {bang, kick, bang, banging on the door until we come and get them}. it's really lovely waking up in the morning around here. ;) Sometimes though, Hubby & I will switch off waking up early/sleeping in. We're good like that.

{two} do you have a go-to song for karaoke?
i do not karaoke. if i did, it would be led zeppelin.

okay. okay. i can remember karaoke-ing one time. on a cruise ship. we sang 'seasons of love' from RENT. and i rocked the **** out the high notes. i did.

{three} if you could only see black and white except for one color, what color would you choose to see?
green. my favorite.

{four} what color best matches your personality? green!

{five} if you could choose one meal to cook better than anyone else, what would it be?
thanksgiving meal.


{six} how many keys do you have on your key ring?
too many!

{seven} do you give your pets birthday/christmas gifts?
not always. i try to remember to buy extra treats or some catnip.

{eight} when your plate has different foods on it, do you mix or not?
sure! it all ends up in the same place! And while we're talking about eating habits ~ i have a very strange habit of arranging a "last bite" from my plate. it is normally comprised of the yummiest looking bits of the meal/salad/dish, etc ... and it's totally a really weird habit that my husband & bestest-friend-ever noticed long before i even knew i was doing it. I am also a very slow eater.

{nine} if you could hire someone to do one thing for you all the time, what would it be?
laundry/wrangling our clothes issue in the house! between all of my clothes and all the little girls clothes in the house... it's really getting to be a problem cleaning & storing & organizing everything!

{ten} when flying, do you prefer the window or aisle seat?
any seat in which i can swallow large amounts of heavy sedatives to calm my nerves. i lost TEN POUNDS (!!!!) from anxiety caused over being nervous about flying to FLA*** for a weekend trip i was taking with my mom & sisters last month. TEN. at this rate, i oughta book at trip to europe and be done with this residual baby weight forever! ;)

Link up your Wee Bit of Me Wednesday here!

*** I totally dig the days of yore, when state abbreviations were three letters. Just sayin'! ***

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I Heart Faces Photo Challenge ~ Silhouette

My My, it's been a while! I'm posting tonight for the I Heart Faces "Silhouette" challenge. I'm excited because I already have a photo. It's from Halloween, so it's current enough that I don't feel like I'm pulling from the archives. Lord, it's still on my camera! All the Room Moms for our preschool class wore witch hats to the class party. It was unintentional on all our parts to be matching and I was able to snap a great shot of the group leaving the church basement. I think it totally looks like we're leaving our underground lair and heading out for a broom ride. :)

(this looks fuzzy on my Edit Post page... hope it doesn't when i post it!)

Share your Silhouette pictures at I Heart Faces. Hopefully I'll be doing some more posting this week and getting back into the swing of things! :)

Why, hello there!

Sorry I've been amiss this week! We just decided we're finally super-serious about listing our house. There is this house we found that is for sale. And the yard is like... a dream! And it's a five minute walk to the girls' school ~ through backyards. We don't even have to get on a sidewalk! The house isn't perfect (it would need lots of work). This probably isn't the house for us, but we've been inspired to sell our house so we can really start looking for a new one. (We're strict on adhereing to a one-mortgage-policy.) So we've been packing things up all week to remove any clutter (we've still got so much to get out of here!) and cleaning things, etc. Needless to say I've been busy. And tired by the time the kids are in bed.

I just wanted to say thanks to those of you who read and keep up on following this here little blog. I hope to find time this week to play catch-up on some photo challenges and contests... and of course, check out everything you all have been up to! :)