25 Random Things About Me

Okay, I've been tagged a bunch of times on Facebook to do this thing. So I finally gave in and thought I'd post my responses here too. Hopefully one day my children will find this list somewhat amusing.

25 Random Things About Me

1-My kids actually do have a mother who wore combat boots. (I served in the Air Force as an Intelligence analyst for 5 years prior to becoming my kids mom).

2-I used to be quite a prankster in middle school and even slipped Ex-Lax into my teachers coffee when I was in 7th grade.

3-When I first met my husband I told him to “give up” because he wasn’t good enough for me and I’d never date him. (Boy was I wrong).

4-I bought and rode a moped (1960 Honda 90cc) in high school because my parents wouldn’t buy me a car and wouldn’t pay for a bus pass to get to school.

5-I met my husband in Hawaii when my moped broke down. He was the cute guy on the motorcycle who stopped to help me fix it.

6-I get more excited than my kids do to go to the library and check out more picture books.

7-I want to write and illustrate my own children’s books.

8-I worked at Jack in the Box for almost 2 years when I was in High School and actually enjoyed it.

9-I once stuffed 3 huckleberries up my nose to impress a boy (I was 4) and my Dad had to use tweezers to get them out.

10-I ripped my lip off when I was 9 years old when I thought I could ride my bike with my eyes closed. I drove right into a barbed wire fence along our country road.

11-I married a guy who sold his motorcycle and took out a loan to buy me a ring at Tiffany’s.

12-When I was in 6th grade I was the only girl that the boys would let play football with them at recess, and I can still throw a pretty impressive spiral.

13-I didn’t get my first kiss until I was 17 years old.

14-I had a Level 3 Top Secret Clearance. Once I was involved in an incident at work that resulted in our flight chief having to use the "red phone" to contact the President of the U.S.)

15-I run marathons and did my first one without stopping once.

16- I can count on one hand the number of fast food hamburgers I’ve eaten in my life. Today, I will only eat my husband’s BBQ hamburgers, they are delicious.

17-When I was 16 my family took a trip to Temple Square in Salt Lake City. I promised myself then that I would come back there to be married one day. 5 years later we flew from Hawaii (where I was living at the time) to Utah to keep that promise.

18-I had my 4 children in 5 years.

19-When I was a little girl I thought that I wanted to have 6 kids (3 boys and 3 girls- like the Brady Bunch). My,.... how I’ve changed.

20-I’ve never drunk a cup of coffee in my life or tasted Pepsi or Coke. I've never drunk alcohol, smoked a cigarette, or used any kind of drug.

21-I was a cover model 2 times for a Hawaiian tourist magazine.

22-I gave birth to all of my children naturally. My third was a homebirth. My longest labor was 32 hours, my shortest was 1 hour and 45 minutes and all of my babies were over 9 pounds, one of them was almost 10!

23-I love vegetables and married a “meat and potatoes” man.

24-When I was 5 I had a habit of chewing and swallowing dental floss. That habit ended when one day I found a piece of string hanging out of my rear and my Dad had to try (unsuccessfully) to pull it out. It eventually "passed" on it's own.

25- When I was in labor with my first son, I bit my husband and threw up all over him. All of this after telling him prior to having natural childbirth that I felt sorry for husbands whose wives yelled at them when they were in labor.