True Confessions

Today when I was waiting in a long line to drop my kids off at school I saw a window of opportunity and drove in to the school parking lot through the exit without considering the social repercussions this would bring.  

25 Things About Me

This has been stolen from Facebook but I wanted to put it on my blog.

1. Although I often go skiing with my family it absolutely terrifies me. I fear for my life the whole time I'm there.
2. I like to go on outings more than anyone. I don't care what it is. If it gets me out of the house then I'm there.
3. I love having a giant dog.
4. I love pilates because I like being able to rest and meditate while I exercise. It's like killing 2 birds with one stone.
5. I often get sad thinking about how my kids will some day grow up and move away.
6. I sometimes get excited thinking about how my kids will some day grow up and move away.
7. I almost never cry. My husband still brings up to me the time that I cried when we first got married because he wanted to leave me to go play basketball. That was 11 years ago. He's had nothing on me since.
8. I am so accustomed to having kids that when I am alone and I turn on the television my first instinct is to leave it on the first cartoon that I come too.
9. I mentally and physically can not be in the house if the outside temperature is between 60 and 80 degrees.
10. I check my email way too often.
11. I did a sprint triathlon in September and didn't come in last.
12. I give up sweets every year on Ash Wednesday for 6 weeks for non-religious reasons.
13. When I was 16 I was the honored queen in Jobs Daughters.
14. I am pulmonarily challenged. (I made that word up.)
15. As soon as I have a birthday I start thinking of myself as how old I'll be on my next birthday. I am 37 now so I consider myself 38. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to prepare myself mentally for getting older.
16. A few weeks ago as I was putting my kids to bed, all 4 of them were calling my name at the same time. For the first time I felt a wave of panic that maybe I was in over my head. It's never happened before and hasn't happened since.
17. I served a church mission in Brazil and can speak Portuguese.
18. When I was pregnant I never got sick but loved the smell of comet and wet dirt.
19. Before I had my first child I taught 6th grade social studies.
20. I have almost no sense of smell therefore I can't taste things as well as I should. John gave me a taste test using chocolate, vanilla and strawberry Breyers ice cream yesterday and I answered wrong every time.
21. I hate getting my kids up and getting them ready for and to school every day. Let's see. I have 6 years down and only about 19 years to go.
22. Sometimes I go into fits of laughter where I can't stop and tears will stream down my face. That probably makes up for #7.
23. I am extremely hopeful and optimistic and will always look for a silver lining rather than dwell on the negative.
24. My husband and I were MFEO.
25. I force my children to learn piano even though I never did.