Five Question Friday!

Happy Friday!  I hope yours is wonderful!




I thought I'd do Five Question Friday - I been busy lately and haven't done it in a while!

1. What is your current favorite tv show?  Since you said current, I’m going to go with something that is airing right now – White Collar.  Art, a hot and charming male lead, and tons of puzzles to solve – love it!   

2. What's the worst haircut you ever got?  Fortunately, for the most part I’ve kept my hair pretty plain – a little longer than shoulder length.  However, I think I did succumb to the dreadful 80’s perm once.  But I don’t have any pictures!! 

3. What was something that you did as a child that you thought you were so cool for doing?  I did my entire dance recital routine at a Captain D’s when I was little.  The whole place actually thought is was cute, I suppose, because they stood up and clapped when I was done!  Maybe they were just happy it was over! 

4. Do you have any GREAT frugal family fun tips?  Take advantage of your area resources!  I know around here we have a ton of free activities for children over the summer!

5. Would you drive across country if you had the money to fly?  If we had plenty of time to make lots of stops and enjoy things along the way, yes.  If we’re on a schedule, then I’d rather just fly.  

Five Question Friday!

TGIF!  I'm so glad it's Friday!


We don't have any real plans for the weekend, although I imagine we'll see my husband's parents at some point.  I liked the 5QFriday questions this week, so here they are!

1. Do you apologize to your kids?  

I do!  I think it's really important to let your children know that WE ALL make mistakes and WE ALL should apologize for them.    If you can't respect your children, how can you expect them to respect themselves?  

2. What color are your nails right now? 

The color they grow out - I don't paint my nails, they get chipped too easily.  

3. When you were growing up, how difficult was it for you to stay home from school 
sick? (As in, did you have to vomit or just say "I don't feel good".) 

I actually liked school, so I imagine if I said I was sick I could stay home.  I don't recall trying to "pull one over" on my parents, and I don't recall a time when I was sick but they forced me to go.  

4. When is the last time you bought a new comforter for your bed?  


Wow, it's been a long time.  Probably 7 years or so.  We bought a really nice one, and have a couple of different covers for it.  Plus, we don't use it in the summer, so I imagine we'll have it a while longer!

5. Favorite website(s)?  


There are so many!  Amazon, Woot, all of the different blogs, lots of vegan cooking sites - I'm a web junky!

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Five Question Friday!

It's time for some more Five Question Friday!  I haven't participated in a while - I love the questions this week!  I hope all of you mamas have a wonderful Mother's Day!   

1. Have you ever had roommates?  

I've had a lot of roommates!  All through college I had them, and even for a while after getting my "real" job.  I think it's a great way to learn about other people, save money, and make new friends!  

2. How many names do you/your children have? (i.e. Prince Charming William Phillip Arthur Louis John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt)  

Little Miss just has three names - first, middle, and last.  However, we called her Moon Geranium until she was born!

3. Did you watch the Royal Wedding?  

Not live, but I did watch it!  I kept it on the TV in the background most of that morning.  I LOVED her wedding gown!

4. What is the messiest room in your house?  

Our "closet room" (and yes, it is an actual room).  Thank goodness others can't really see it!

5. What is your ideal mothers day?  

Sleeping in, a yummy breakfast, and relaxing with my family.  Oh, and having the magic fairy come and clean the house for me!

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Five Question Friday!

Happy Friday!  I'm looking forward to seeing the husband again late tonight or early tomorrow!

1. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Wow!  I can think of about a million things I would change….if I had to narrow it down to one….Self-doubt.  If I’m not careful, I can freeze myself with self-doubt.  I know it’s all in my head, but I sometimes let it get the best of me. 

2. Write about a time when you got lost. 

Okay, I’m TERRIFIED of being lost, so it doesn’t happen often.  Once, when I was in Italy I wondered off by myself and managed to get lost.  I thought I was paying attention, but you know how that goes!  Anyway, there was a huge statue in the square where we were supposed to meet.  I kept trying to ask people where the statue was, but they all thought I was trying to get to some sort of station!  The people of Italy are very friendly, though, and I remembered I took a picture of it – problem solved!  I found my way back in time to meet up with my group!   

3. Camping or 5 star hotel?

I actually like both!  Now when we camp, we go in either our 5^th wheel or pop-up camper, so I guess that’s cheating.  I love the serene setting of campgrounds, and having an area to sit outside and enjoy while I’m travelling.  Now that Little Miss is running around she enjoys the outside space too.  When I was pregnant, we stayed at a Bed and Breakfast for a “Babymoon” and that was awesome though!  It also had plenty os places to enjoy outside as well.  A 5 star hotel?  I might enjoy it for a couple of nights, but in the long run it’s too impersonal for me. 

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Five Question Friday!

Happy Friday!  I'm looking forward to the weekend, since the husband will be home!  This constant time away has really been getting to me lately.  A good quality weekend and I'll be ready to face everything again!

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Five Question Friday

Good Morning!  It’s time for Five Question Friday – which means it’s almost time for the weekend!  I’m still trying to think of some fun activities for the weekend – if you have any ideas let me know!

1.  Do you know what your REAL hair color is?  I don’t dye my hair, so yes I know what color it is!  Unfortunately there is some gray coming through these days, but I’m still holding off on the dying!

2.  Do you plan ahead for summer, or fly by the seat of your pants?  We don’t have children in school yet, so it’s all the same to us.

3.  What is your favorite meal to cook?  I love cooking just about anything, so this is a hard one.  I guess curries, because I love eating them so much : )

4.  Do you get offended by not receiving thank yous?  No, sadly I think the days of thank you are coming to an end.  I teach my daughter to say please and thank you, and we need to get better at writing thank you notes, but I do my best not to expect much out of others.

5.  How did you meet your best friend?  My husband is my best friend.  I met him at a friend’s birthday party.  We went on a boating adventure (it wasn’t officially a date) a few days later, and we’ve been together ever since!  

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Five Question Friday

It's Friday again!  Hurray!  My husband is coming home today after being gone for two weeks, so that makes it an especially good Friday.  So here are the 5 questions to learn a little about me.

1. Can you drive a stick shift?  

Yes!  I actually prefer driving a standard, although my present car is an automatic.  First one I've had since college that wasn't a stick.  I really do miss it!   

2. What are two foods you just can't eat?  

Cow in any form - I haven't eaten red meat since high school sometime.  Although I can tolerate taking a bite of chicken every now and then, red meat just totally grosses me out.

Southern style greens - For years, I thought I hated greens.  And then one day I discovered that it's the cooking method that turned them into a mushy slimy smelly mess that I hated.  Now I eat greens all of the time - quickly sauteed in garlic and EVOO, or thrown into soups and chilis.  I never knew what I was missing!  

3. Do you buy Girl Scout Cookies? What is your favorite kind?

Even though I once was a Girl Scout, I don't buy the cookies very often.  We aren't big sweet eaters in this house, so they'd end up lost and forgotten, so I leave them for the people who have genuine love for them.  I used to love samosas, but they changed the recipe on me and they aren't the same!  

4. How do you pamper yourself?  I don't.  I should, but I don't.  My husband is gone a lot, which leaves me with the munchkin most of the time - and on my days off I tend to spend them cleaning and catching up on my blog and stuff like that.  So other than a glass of wine at night after the munchkin is in bed, there isn't much pampering!

5. What is your nickname and how did you get it?  When I was in high school a lot of people called me Little O - that's the only nickname I've ever had! My best friend gave it to me because I was pretty tiny in high school and my last name started with an "O".  I think I'm just not a nickname kind of person!  

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Five Question Friday

I thought some of you might like to know a little bit more about me, so I think I'm going to start participating in 5 Question Friday!  I hope you enjoy this glimpse into my life!

1. Have you worn the same outfit more than one day in a row?  I hate to admit it, but I have.  Often I’ll throw on clothes from the day before first thing in the morning, then change later after I’ve had a chance to take a shower.  Before I had a child this rarely happened, but now it’s a lot more frequent!

2. If you had to choose any LARGE city to live in, which would it be?  Wow!  I’m not sure – I’ve never thought of myself as a big city sort of gal.  Maybe London?  I loved London when I went there, and it was the first big city I felt comfortable in.  There are so many that I’ve never been to, though, so who knows?   

3. Fly or drive with the kids on vacation?  Definitely drive.  I think I’d lose my mind trying to get Little Miss through an airport, especially if there were transfers involved!  When we travel we do the wake up in the middle of the night to leave and get a good head start before Little Miss wakes up – that works pretty well for us! 

4. What is your idea of "spring cleaning"?  What’s spring cleaning??  Unless my Mom comes over and says we need to clean, it pretty much doesn’t get done.  Which reminds me, I need to get her to come over soon : ).  I’ll sometimes tackle small problem areas, but I have to do very small sections at a time – I’ve just never been much of a cleaner!

5. What is the best book you have ever read?  This is a hard one!  I have a ton of books I loved while I was reading them, but most don’t stick with me.  I guess it would have to be Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes, by Mark Bittman.  It’s like the Omnivores Delimma, but a lot easier to read.  His ideas have stuck with me, and it’s the book I most frequently recommend to others. 

 HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!