5 Favourite Holidays

1. Christmas

2. Thanksgiving

3. Birthday

4. Ides of March

5. Valentines Day

5 Authors I'd love to meet (Dead or Alive)

1. Harper Lee

2. Henry David Thoreau

3. Robert Frost

4. Edith Wharton

5. Dave Barry

5 Places I could live

The following are places I could pack up and move to without much of a thought about it

1. London

2. Yellow Springs, Ohio

3. Lucerne, Switzerland

4. New York, New York

5. Downtown Indianapolis

5 Things I am going to work on being better at

1. Not interrupting people while they're talking

2. Not being so forgetful

3. Being more organized

4. Being a better listener

5. Being nicer to my husband

5 Things in my house of which I have eaten the entire contents by myself

1. A bag of Fritos

2. A bag of Tahiti Coconut cookies

3. A multi pack of 3 Musketeers

4. A bag of Sargento Cheese

5. A multi pack of Snickers

5 Songs I sang to Madeline in the car to keep her from falling asleep

1. Knock Three Times

2. You're so Vain

3. Food Glorious Food

4. Another Suitcase in Another Hall

5. Taylor, the Latte Boy

It's amazing the songs that come to your mind when you need to sing loudly!

5 Things I love about my friends with babies

1. I don't have to explain random stains on my clothing

2. I can ask them anything about any type of bodily function or baby habit

3. They appreciate how hard it is to get out for a night together!

4. They are incredibly supportive. Period.

5. They understand the joys that something like a new word or a few steps can bring

5 Colors I love right now

1. Black (I always love black!)

2. Pink (especially with brown)

3. Brown (see above)

4. White

5. Aqua

5 words I use WAY too much

1. Like

2. Seriously

3. No way

4. Literally

5. Poop

5 Book Recommendations

1. Once Upon a Town
Story of a little town in the middle of nowhere changed the life of every single American soldier in WW 2.

2. Freakonomics
An Economist applies the principles of economy to just about everything under the sun.

3. Mockingbird: A portrait of Harper Lee
A must read for those who adore "Mockingbird" as I do. The best "biography" out there on Lee.

4. Atonement
The story of how one little girl's mistake changes the course of the lives around her.

5. God Wants You to Roll
The story of how 2 kids fleeced thousands of people out of millions of dollars.

5 Things I am terrible at (at which I am terrible)

1. Spelling

2. Remembering

3. Organizing

4. Video Games

5. Putting a fitted sheet on a bed.

5 Selfish Things I would do if I was obscenely rich

1. Hire a live in nanny who spoke multiple languages

2. Hire a live in massuse

3. Make my husband quit his job and just travel the world taking pictures

4. Get hair extensions/plastic surgery/manis pedis every week!

5. Buy you a fur coat (but not a real fur coat that's cruel!)

10 Things for Jess and Steph

Since they so *honestly* pointed out my mistake, I am doing this post in their honour.

10 things that start with the letter F

1. Friends

2. Flip

3. Flute

4. Frog

5. Frankensense

6. Frankenstein

7. Fish

8. Fortunate

9. Fickle

10. Flowers

10 Things that start with "E"

I saw this on a friends blog - you're supposed to list 10 words that start with the first letter of your last name - the first ones that come to your mind.

1. Ebony

2. Even

3. Enough

4. Elixir

5. Epiphany

6. Eat

7. Elevate

8. Elastic

9. Elated

10. Elope

Hmm, that was random...I wonder what a shrink would say about my word choices.

5 Things I find attractive about men

1. Suspenders

2. Nice smelling

3. Polite

4. Funny

5. Not afraid of bugs

*I would just like to say that my husband meets 4 of the above* He just happens to be afraid of bugs - ha ha - kidding.....he doesn't own a pair of suspenders....yet.

5 Things that really annoy me

1. People who drive too slowly

2. People who don't return e-mails/phone calls

3. The dog being smart enough to find ONE crumb of food in the entire house but not smart enough to unwrap himself from around the pergola

4. People who are mean for no reason

5. Repetitive Noise

5 Names for Bands

I think the following would be really cool names for bands - certainly I could do this prfessionally right?

1. Cry Baby Tears

2. Shards of Glass

3. Cabbages and Kings

4. Tumnus

5. Araby

5 Songs that make me cry

1. Annabelle's Song (Everclear)

2. Gracie (Ben Folds)

3. The Luckiest (Ben Folds)

4. Ashokan Farewell

5. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (the version by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole)

5 Things on my husband's nightstand

1. A water bottle

2. An ipod

3. 2 white baby socks

4. A Calculator

5. A Wallet

5 Things on my nightstand

1. Beeswax Moisturizing Cream

2. And old newspaper

3. An empty ramekin

4. Blue nail polish

5. Packaging Tape

5 baby names I am really really into right now

1. Poppy

2. Luther

3. Sedgwick

4. Oriana

5. Roman

*Please feel free to use these fantastic names for your baby as I will not be needing them any time soon. ;)

5 Things I miss doing

1. Putting on "real" clothes everyday

2. Talking to adults on a regular basis

3. Using words bigger than "no" or "eat"

4. Driving home on a nice day with the windows down and my music up

5. Everything about downtown Indianapolis

5 TV stations I could NOT do without

1. TBS

2. Nickelodeon

3. Discovery

4. HGTV

5. History

5 Television Stations I could do without

1. Spike

2. Lifetime

3. Hallmark

4. Scifi

5. ESPN

5 "Hit" Shows I have never seen

1. Grey's Anatomy

2. Desperate Housewives

3. Survivor

4. House

5. Lost

5 Things Madeline is obsessed with

1. Sharpies, Pens, Pencils or anything resembling a writing instrument.
(I feel this means she will be a writer.)

2. Flatware
The other day she crawled up onto the open dishwasher and pulled out an entire setting and went clanking around the kitchen with a spoon, fork, and butter knife in her hand. Interesting, she had all 3 in one hand. And yes she only got about a foot before I took them away from her!

3.Wipes
She loves nothing more than to pull out every wipe in her container one by one.

4. Red Bear
This is her lovey. She say "beah - beah" when she wants her bear. It's really cute. She'll just crawl around the house sometimes looking for him.

5. Belts
Any type of belt - the belt to her highchair, her carseat, the bike trailer. If it's a belt - it fascinates her!