ABC MEME

When our living room was so torn up and life was so chaotic, I just didn't have the emotional energy to blog. But some people (!) keep asking me when I'm going to get back to it and this is the kind of jumpstart I need. So here's my contribution to the ABC dialogue.

ACCENT: I was born and raised in Texas and sounded City Texan rather than Country Texan. Then we spent 14 years in New Jersey and I lost a lot of my accent and learned to talk WAY too fast for my husband who tells me to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n on a regular basis.
BIBLE BOOK THAT I LIKE: Isaiah and James
CHORE I DON'T CARE FOR: Dealing with clutter. Stuff that piles up overwhelms me.
DOG OR CAT: Uh...that would be someone else's dog or someone else's cat. My poor children pined for a pet but they never had one. (Oh, except Daughter#1 had a guinea pig once that she left with a friend when we went on vacation. It died while we were gone and her friend's mom didn't want to dispose of the body without letting our child say goodbye, so she put it in the freezer and returned the corpse-cicle to us when we came home. Gee, thanks!!)
ESSENTIAL ELECTRONICS: We have only the very most elementary--TV, VCR, DVD. I have a iPod which I like to use when I remember and a Palm Pilot that has my lists of gluten free foods. But I'm on my computer multiple times a day.
FAVORITE COLOGNE: I like Bath and Body Works "Moonlight Path"
GOLD OR SILVER: Yes. My wedding ring is gold but I wear my silver James Avery charm bracelet all the time (until the clasp broke and now I can't remember where it is).
HANDBAG I CARRY MOST OFTEN: Old, old black one that is so faded it looks navy, too, so I carry it with everything. Pretty pathetic, but no one has EVER suggested that I have any fashion sense.
INSOMNIA: Either not at all or half the night. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason cause that I can pinpoint.
JOB TITLE: Wife, mom, grammie, hyperfocused bulldog, researcher of whatever I find interesting.
KIDS: Two wonderful daughters, each married to a wonderful husband; each is a wonderful mother.
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Me and my sweetie of almost 35 years, with our younger daughter's family currently living with us til their new house is finished.
MOST ADMIRABLE TRAIT: That's a hard one. Some of the qualities that I happen to think are a gift from G-d are a little difficult for my family to put up with, like seeing things very black and white.
NAUGHTIEST CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR: Refusing to take naps. My mother told me once that I would be sorry someday that I wasn't willing to take my naps and when I was a sleepy young mother with babies who wouldn't sleep, I was SO sorry!
OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: Childbirth 1975, 1981
PHOBIAS: I won't sleep in our trailer in the country because it has critters.
QUOTE: "Worry slanders every promise in the Word of G-d"
RELIGION: Raised Methodist. Out of the clear blue sky, the L-rd dropped a hunger into my heart to reconnect with the Jewish roots of our faith, so now I'm also a Messianic Gentile.
SIBLINGS: Three brothers
TIME I WAKE UP: 5:30 am
UNUSUAL TALENT OR SKILL: I'm told that the ability to work in a roomful of crying babies and not be frazzled is unusual.
VEGETABLE I REFUSE TO EAT: I like a lot of vegetables, even the slimy okra and the dreaded spinach and broccoli, but there are some that shouldn't be allowed to take up space in the produce department-- eggplant, brussels sprouts,
WORST HABIT: I fall off the healthy eating wagon far too often. I eat healthy for months and then I'll wipe out a six-pack of Hershey bars in one day, along with a bag of Mission Tortilla Chips and a pint of Haagen Daz Coffee Ice Cream.
X-RAYS: Broken arm (had to be set by an orthopedic surgeon), regular dental stuff and chiropractic x-rays
YUMMY STUFF I COOK: Lasagna, Brownies, Creole chicken--all gluten free
ZOO ANIMAL I LIKE MOST: Haven't been to the zoo for my own pleasure in years. It's the most fun to take a child you love and see what a good time THEY have.