Before I start tho, I need to ask a question about blog commenting ettiquette. When someone comments on your blog, are you supposed to aswer them on yours or theirs? B/c how do you know they'll check back on yours for an answer? I mean I do...but does everyone?
OK lets get this started...
1. I was born a yankee(PA)
2. I moved to FL at 24.
3. I am an only child...spoiled as the day is long!
4. I say "y'all" all the time. "all y'all" too, and if I'm really mad I'll say "I'm fixin' to___"
5. I love having 5 kids. 
Dec2002
6. I am so proud of all of them (even if they all make me crazy at some point)
7.When I go somewhere w/our oldest, they think we're bro/sis.
8. When I go somewhere w/son#2, they think we are married...(he hates that and makes sure he calls me mama very loudly several times)
9. I could not possibly survive w/out our 1st daughter! I love to hangout w/her and talk. She is the absolute BEST!
10. Our 2nd daughter is the biggest drama queen that ever walked the face of the earth! She is secretly at least 25...(she's 5)...and can belt out any pop song. 
11. I call our youngest son 'mama's sweet boy' b/c he is so sweet you could just eat him up!
12. I love my husband and he does love me but we live in separate houses. Its complicated. I miss him...
13. We have been together for about 20 yrs.
14. I had surgery on my kidney/bladder area when I was 5 or 6.
15. I am a gemini thru and thru.
16. I had a german shepherd named Athena that my husband gave me for my 27th bday.
17. We had a kennel that bred them and also sold young adult k9s to police and the private sector.
18. I had her all of her life until she died 1-5-04. She was 13, I think. I miss her so bad. She followed me everywhere. She was fully trained and could do some damage!
19. I have a maltese named Kiwi now. I feel guilty b/c I know I don't love him like I do Athena...
20. I am a Christian but I haven't found a church to go to since we moved to this town 8 yrs ago...
21. Despite #20, I have a very big potty mouth. I try to stop....they just fly out.
22. My very bestfriend lives about 2000 miles away in CO. We are so totally opposite, but our hearts and souls are the same.
23. I love Pepsi. Coke is just plain yucky! I wish I liked diet anything, but I just can't do it.
24. We do drink allot of water tho since we have a watercooler. The kids like water...and gatorade.
25. I love love love seafood!
26. and asparagus, brussel sprouts, spinach, squash, zucchini.
27. and of course Starbucks! I even have corrupted Britt(15) and she is addicted too. But there are none near here so we usually only get one when we go to the airport to p-up someone or fly out. :(
28. Cannot live w/out chocolate! M&Ms, Hershey kisses, Hershey bars, plain good ole chocolate!
29. Tostitos too for crunchy-salty. plain. or in bean dip. No salsa.
30. I used to like red meat, but the older I get, I just can't eat it. Meatballs sometimes...sloppy joes sometimes, but thats about it.
31. And the thing w/ chicken/turkey is there can be no bones...it's actually not a concious activist thing...it makes me physically ill to eat meat off of bones.
32. I'm trying to think about what I'm gonna do about this T-giving...I love turkey. Its been bugging me for yrs. Someone else is gonna have to make it and carve it and THEN I can eat it! Hey! This gets me out of cooking the main dish too! ;)
33. My drink of choice used to be Jack and Coke. That was back in the caveman days LOL!
34. I never liked beer. Or mtn dew.
35. I still like Rumrunners, bahama mamas, stuff like that occasionally. But my meds can't mix w/it so I have to plan it well and know that I'm gonna suffer one way or another.
36. Pinot Grigio is yummy too.
37. I love flowers...bird of paraidise which I am fortunate to have in my yard and down by the dock. any kind of lilies, tulips, lilacs.
38. NOT carnations. They remind me of funerals and I have told my kids that no one better send them to my memorial service if there is one b/c I *will* haunt that person!
39. We have lived on the water for yrs. There are tons of canals here on the Cape. They say as many as in Venice Italy! I've never counted so who knows...
40. I like to watch the boats go by my house every day.
41. I love Burt's Bees products...Britt and I keep 2 beeswax lipbalms at all times(one in our purses and 1 in our bathrooms.
42. My fav. face/body scrub is Oatmeal and Honey by earth essentials(I think). I'm out tho b/c Publix used to sell it and now they don't so I'm gonna have to buy it online and I'm lazy.
43. Body by Victoria is my fav perfume, body gel and body lotion.
44. But I love Vanilla Brown Sugar Body Butter too!
45. I love the beach! Sounds of the ocean, seagulls, feel of sand, smell of salt air and coconut sunscreen, the blue-green color of the ocean. 
46. For several yrs in a row we spent summers in a house right on the beach. It was the next best place to heaven. I wouldn't care if I never left that property again in my life...
47. Those were the best family yrs ever. 
48. I also love to see the leaves change. Reds, orange-yellow. We spent 6 mo up north recently during fall and winter. Our house was the best! Brick 2 story, firplace, PLAYROOM off of the den!
49. I love a fireplace and the smell of wood burning. We always had one burning in that house.
50. I am amazed by our oldest sons Devin and Shane. I can't believe they are 20 and 19. They were 3 and 4 just yesterday...they are men now. They are responsible, bill paying, job-holding, college-going, apartment-sharing men. Way taller than me. They *shave*. (God they're gonna kill me for that)(and yes they've been shaving for yrs...you know what I mean, all you mamas). They have girlfriends...sometimes LOL! OMG!!! what if they get married soon or have babies!?! I just thought of that omg omg.
BTW, I started this list @ 1:30 and its now ummm 6:45? And yes I have been up and away from here but still this is HARD! SO I'm gonna talk about my kids too.
51. Devin's major is aerospace engineering. He's 20. And tall, I mean, I look up and I'm 5'8.5". He loves anything Irish. He has a 4 leaf clover right below his neck and it has Ireland's colors. He started rock clibing in CO and went to the Uof CO for a yr. He rode a bullout there too! He is silly and intelligent and has a great sense of humor and is sarcastic (like me). He loves hard and also holds a grudge(again like me).
52. Shane's major is international business. He's 19. Tall too. about 6'. Loves boats and flying. His tatoo is on his arm from top to elbow and has the buddist(altho he's christian) mantra about doing unto others etc. He stopped public school in 11th gr to finish his credits at home and start college early. He is independent and smart and take charge and goes head first into love. He is not a grudge-holder.
53. Britt has been homeschooled/unschooled since 6th grade. (4 yrs ago) We call her Baby Rae as a nick name.(middle name is Rae) She is beautiful inside and out. SHe is wise beyond her yrs and most of the time I think she's the mama and I am the teenager. She is interested in modeling and interior design and fashion and shopping and music and traveling. She is "legally blind" but wears contacts and can see 20/30 w/them. She cannot wait to get lasik etc surgery! I will die when she moves out. I want her to have the best life ever, and won't hold her back, I never have, I just enjoy being around her so much.
This is Britt w/my niece Syd.
54. Kallee(cow-lee)(not Kay-lee) is so not from Earth! She is our firecracker of the family and we also call her Baby Faith(Her middle name). She does everything by extremes. The child LOVES music. Can sing the words to any song on the radio but also knows praise and worship. She does harmonies. Sings in harmony. She's 5. She likes keyboards too. You just never know what the child is going to say next!
55. And yes Dallas was named after the Cowboys. Last baby, last boy of our family named after Daddy's team for better or worse. The sweetest boy. He is 4 and likes to be upside down, climb, computer games, leapster, basketball, legos, trucks. 
56. I hate to clean but like the smell of bleach. (this doesn't mean I *don't* clean-I just hate to)
57. I clean best when I am mad mad MAD!
58. I was in a dance company when I was a teenager.
59. I danced 7 days a week, went to school for half days and dance studio the rest.
60. I loved every minute of it.
61. I thought I would dance forever.
62. But I chose not to stay in NY.
63. I guess I chickened out.
64. I got married and had my kids. I'm not sorry I did.
65. One show we did on Christmas eve and I was the Angel. My friend was "Mary" and when she went to follow "Joseph" out the door, he brought his staff down and bonked her on the head! I had to stay on stage dancing and not laugh! I thought I would burst!
66. We had weigh ins every day and when our measurements were taken for costumes, if the head thought we needed to lose some weight/inches, he would order the costume to be made in a smaller size so you would have to lose weight or not dance.
67. One yr he did that to me and I lost so much that the costume had to be taken in allot!
68. One yr a close friend's sister was getting married and I was invited to the bachelorette party. I went after dance class and figured I'd go to the party, sleep at my friend's and be back for company practice @ 9am the next morning. OK, see here's the thing...we stopped drinking around 5:30am...it was really really a bad thing for me. I got there around 10:30 and I was so in trouble! I was 17, drunk/hungover/just plain sick and he worked me like a DOG! I was sure I would never survive that day. We danced til 5:30pm. The last thing he said to me that day was "if you want to drink, come to my house and drink. At least you'll be on time"
69. It was a long time before I ever drank again.
70. I am addicted to American Idol (love Bo's voice)
71. And RockStar INXS now....(Marty/Suzie)
72. And the Osbournes
73. Hogan Knows Best...(we would so put that tracker on Britt's car so we would know where she was while on a date!)
74. Britt and I watch Viva La Bam!
75. I love to sing with the radio/tv anything. James Taylor, John Mellencamp(Cougar), Alicia Keyes, GnR(So takes me back to the old days) Savage Garden, Nelly.
76. I do not like Tom Cruise. Never have.
77. I love the color purple and the color of the sea down here.
79. I want to go to Tahiti. I *will* go to Tahiti.
80. I love Italian things: names, homes, countryside, Tuscany, ironwork, marble, columns, the sound of the language.
81. I want to go to Italy too.
82. I love to collect pictures/photos. And look at them.
83. I love Monet's works.
84. I used to play the violin in Jr high.
85. I can't stand to not help someone. I have to be able to "fix" it.
86. I am totally unorganized but I know where everything is.
87. We don't "do school at home", we learn as we live.
88. My kids decide what they want to dig into or work on etc and then they do. I'm here to help them go in that direction and we find stuff out together.
89. Some people think kids will never do another thing if not "made" to. Trust me, this is not true.
90. Shane learned Japanese and Russian on his own in one yr just by going online and also listening to a CD. No one told him to do it. I would've never seen that one coming!
91. I love love love bread. bagels(cinnamon raisen), bread, bread.
92.I need to cut back on bread products.
93. I love gold jewelry. Of course I love diamonds.
94. I got my engagement ring after we were married for about 12 yrs. Really I did.
95. every time I get diamond earrings I lose one. I am not allowed to own "real" ones anymore!
96. Britt and I have the same exact ring on our right hand ring finger. It has a gold sand dollar and 2 diamonds. Kallee will get the same one when she turns 13.
97. I cannot type w/out looking. Sometimes, I'm typing along and look up and not one freakin thing is on the screen!!!
98. I love my iron post bed....and I got it for free!
99. I haven't had the heart to kick Kallee or Dallas out of my bed.
100. Or Tigger-the-cat, or Kiwi my maltese. But there's only 1 missing...
So there you have it. Took me til almost 9pm and Britt even made dinner! SO am I boring or what?
Mama loves u... 9:46 PM
