A Little Bit About Me

I thought, starting a new blog, it would be an appropriate time to introduce myself a little bit. 

If you gathered from my Halloween post, I am a proud mother of two wonderful children.  

I probably should add they are also probably two of the silliest!

I also take care of two animals.  Neither are rightfully MY pet, but somehow I end up doing all of the poop-scooping.

This is Blue.  She is a bearded dragon. We adopted her as an adult from my son's old teacher who was going through a divorce and couldn't take all of her animals to her new place.  She is my daughter's pet.  They share the same room and she finally got my daughter to stop requesting a different pet-animal 3 times a week!

This is Trudeau.  Everyone that sees this picture thinks I got a new dog because he seems to look small.  But I haven't, this is the same 90 pound Bouvier.

Some of my Favorite Things:

TV Shows

 How am I so late on this one?  I've watched the first 7 episodes on Netflix, but that's all there is and I am craving more, more, more!!!

Obsessed since Season 1, Episode 1!  Awesome show and now it is rumored that I am obsessed with zombies...not really, but I'm obsessed with this show.

I also totally love Doctor Who, Big Bang Theory, Up All Night, and a couple other choice TV shows.

Books:

 Right now I'm reading The Duchess by Amanda Foreman.  I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'd rather read the book first anyway.  

I've never been one for history or biographies, but oddly enough one of my favorite books is also another historical biographies:  Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff.  I love smart and powerful women!

Another book that I just LOOOVED, but is a little more chick lit-y (not too much for my taste though, because I'm usually not a huge fan) is An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin.  Yes.  THAT Steve Martin.  I was so surprised too, and I was even more surprised by the quality of his writing and the great plot of this book.

I'm also quite a fan of Malcolm Gladwell books (other books within that genre) as well as classics.

Hobbies:

Obviously I love to read.  I also love to watch talks on TED and podcasts like The Stuff You Missed In History Class.  

I fall in and out of love with cooking cyclically.  I cook not only for my kids but for my parents.  My dad will not eat anything that is vegetarian and if he does he makes it very clear that he protests such a thought.  My son also eats only a handful of items so he is never thrilled with ANYTHING regardless of what it is, unless of course it's a form of pizza.  Right now I've tightened my belt significantly for Christmas so I can't even buy all of the ingredients that I want which also makes cooking that much less pleasurable.

I've only gone rock climbing a few times myself.  I never have someone to belay me, but I have fun belaying my daughter and plan on attempting to take my son fairly soon.  And I guess I could figure out how to go bouldering and do that on my own.

I also love trying to be sporty/outdoorsy and I love introducing my children to that kind of thing even if we all have our first time together.

Fishing

Hiking (our first time)

Our first and only time thus far.  This was almost two years ago now.  I can't wait to take her back and maybe even take my son one day.  He will be going on three and there are younger skiers out there.

We also just love hanging out in the backyard or at the park.  This winter is going to be hard.  During the summer, we spent every waking minute so much time outside that I don't know if the kids will cope with being cooped up indoors.

My Next (and New Favorite) Project:

I saw this on creativehomemaking.com and an just obsessed.  I just love it.  The white carnations are cheap enough yet it is so simple and so elegant.  I think I may even make it with different colors for my Thanksgiving or perhaps Christmas table.  All I need to know is I MUST make it!!!

http://www.creativehomemaking.com/home_decorating/diy-floral-arrangements.shtml

Well, that about wraps it up.  Okay, hopefully there's a lot more to me than can fit in one blog post.  But I'm sure you have had enough of me...even I have had enough of writing about me.  And seriously who gets sick of that?!?

It was nice to meet you!  Hope the feeling is mutual!