The post in which I dig up an old draft that was mostly written, and finish it. :)

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Beautiful Blogger Award

Thanks, Rebecca!

Terms of this award: must list 10 things about yourself, thank the person who gave you this award and pass it on to 10 wonderful bloggers.
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Well, since it's Mother's Day {Ironic I chose to start this post on Mother's Day and actually post it the day before Father's Day}, why not have a post revolve around me for a moment? I mean, who doesn't like to talk about themselves? {Clearly I do, because I am taking the time to finish this!}

1. I am 25 weeks Pregnant!  {Note, I am now further, much further, than 25 weeks pregnant. I don't know how far along I am. I just know I will be 40 weeks on Aug 21st. I welcome someone else to do the math for me. Please, anyone!?}  I've stopped keeping track (lets face it, I've been pregnant forever!) so I went to an online due date calculator to figure it out.  My health has improved dramatically the last few weeks. This may not be the last child after all. :) {BTW, my health is still in check and it has been a long while since I tossed my cookies! Contracting a lot- the Braxton Hicks kind--i think--, tired all the time, lots of heart burn, not much energy, sleeping terribly at night.... all of which translates into me being a totally normal pregnant lady!}

2. Winder Farms milk has been delivered to our home the last few weeks and I quite like it. It's nice knowing that is one trip to the store I won't have to make. We had cereal for dinner tonight (Happy Mother's Day to me!) and finished off the milk but no worries. We'll have oatmeal tomorrow morning and by Tuesday morning, it will be waiting for us on our doorstep. No grocery shopping for me! The milk is absolutely delicious. {I miss this. I have to go to the store tomorrow. Mostly for milk...I look forward to returning home to have delivered milk again. I swear I save money on groceries by doing this. How often do you go to the store just to pick up milk and 64 dollars later you are unloading all sorts of things from your trunk into the house?}
 
3. I just returned from a weekend trip to Las Vegas with the little ones (hence the cereal for dinner. It was a win-win. I could feed the kids quickly and ship them off to bed sooner and they were totally thrilled since they didn't get cereal for breakfast this morning) and I continue to be amazed at what great travelers Cade and Savvy are. We went down there to welcome home my cousin from his LDS mission to Russia where he has served the last two years. We stopped once the entire 6 hour drive, and that was just to get gas because I didn't want to chance running out on the side of the freeway with like 3 miles to go. That would be my luck. It really is enjoyable traveling with my munchkins. Ideally I wouldn't be doing it solo, but they make it pretty easy on me so I don't let life pass me by when there are opportunities to go visit family for special occasions. I'm a lucky Mama.
 
4. I am looking forward to getting a Swagger Wagon someday. Hopefully soon. Kyle is in charge of purchasing our family vehicles, so we'll see when he is able to spend some time to hunt for a deal. Usually we go the E-bay route, but Kyle found our most recent vehicle purcase locally.  I call it my anniversary gift to him. I'm such an awesome wife. :) I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with shruck.

5. I LOVE getting lost in a book. It is a great escape and I feel really out of sorts when I'm not in the middle of a great read, like something is missing in my life. I quite enjoy historical fiction. My next goal is to somehow get my little sister to fall in love with literature....she claims she doesn't enjoy reading ...fiction anyways, but I think she just hasn't reached a point in her life in which it even seems possible so sit and read, much less enjoy it. Once her daughter starts taking her three 2-hour naps a day, I think I might be able to hook her. :)

6. I'm growing my hair out until the baby is about 6 months old (or until my face is no longer chubby from incubating and I have decided I am tired of having long hair) and then I want to get it all whacked off in a bob. I've never had a bob hair-cut before, and I'd like to give it a try because everyone I've seen with one looks absolutely adorable. And who wouldn't want to look absolutely adorable?  While I've never had super short hair, it has been quite a long time since I've had really long hair. My hair has maintained a very "medium-ish" length for a very long time now...so the goal now is to go for "cascading long hair," longer than I've ever had it....we'll see how long I can make it!

7. There are many things I feel like I am on the verge of discovering the fine art of doing, and maybe even being good at it.  I swear, there's a burning desire in my heart  but for some reason, none of those desires have reached the next level. Cooking is one of them. I still envision myself over the stove dicing and slicing and spicing and loving it. Loving to cook is something I struggle with loving. Baking, yes. Cooking? Not too many dishes.  Another is art, in many forms.... be it oil painting, quilting, sewing, or just something you create with your hands that is beautiful--music even!  I've so often come across women who discover they love something and are actually quite good at it--- and it all just came about by trying something new and giving it an honest go.  I SO want to find that something, discover a love for it, and become good at it. I really do.  I just haven't given something a good enough chance to win over my heart. In the mean time, I remain mediocre at best in most things domestic, athletic, and artistic and have yet to claim something as "mine."  But it's out there.... I can feel it!  With unpacking, settling in our home and baby nesting on the schedule when I return to Utah and then baby-having shortly after, it may be a few (or several?) months before I find my groove and find myself in talent discovery mode...

8. Along with being on the cusp of a talent discovery breakthrough, I also feel like I am heading toward a health and wellness breakthrough. I've contemplated a number of times what it would be like to eliminate sugar from my diet altogether.  Then there's the other desires of mine to grow a substantial garden, bake my own bread on a regular basis, make my own baby food, and live off my own produce as much as possible while only consuming whole and healthful foods. These thoughts have ever so slowly crept into my brain the more I read and the more I experience life.  I almost shed a tear when I think of the day that may come in which I do give up my Oreos and chocolate cake and I (GASP!) discover how much better I feel without them.  The desire to give that lifestyle a chance at some point in the future is there....but we'll see if that would ever, ever happen.  You never know. Stranger things have happened.

9. Speaking of food, I really love grilled cheese sandwiches with a bowl of Brunswick Stew, an incredibly tasty stew you can only get in Central Virginia grocery stores as it originated in the rural locale of Brunswick County, Va.  Grilled cheese and Brunswick Stew are my ultimate comfort combination. If you were to add chocolate milk, it would send me to the moon. That would be a glass of chocolate milk to drink, not chocolate milk to add to the stew. Ew. That would be gross.

10. In the 7th grade I mastered with my girlfriend Jessica Hughes how to speak just like a native New Yorker. I still can. Haven't done it since probably 11th grade, but I think I've still got it. You never know when a skill such as this will come in handy, so I just thought I'd let you know about it.

Here are the Bloggers I look forward to learning more about. No pressure, gals, take your time. :)
Megan, Stefanie, Hilary, Lyndsey, Alicia, Bethany, Lauren, Kelli, Susan, and Jeri Lyn