I've Been Tagged!!

I’ve been tagged by Jennifer from My 3 Sons and A China Girl. To list 7 things you may not know about me.

The rules are to link the person who sent this to you and leave a comment on their blog so their readers can visit yours. Post the rules on your blog. Share 7 strange/weird facts about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So, here goes.

1. I am a drop out!!! I did my bachelors in psych then straight to my master’s degree in psych and then started my doctorate in psych. At that time I was all of 23 years old, newly married and sick to death of pysch so I made it one year in the doctorate program and then—DROPPED OUT!!!! So yes, I am a DROP OUT!!!

2. I use to weigh 300 pounds. 8 years ago I had gastric bypass surgery and lost a heck of a lot of weight. Not sure what I weigh now (I refuse to weigh) but I have been the same weight (+ or - 10 pounds) since surgery. It was a wonderful decision for me.

3. I met my husband when we were 16 years old in our church youth group. We were total opposites and no one thought we would make it more than a week and we ended up dating for 6 years and then were married and have been for 13 years!!

4. My best friends are identical twins and we met in 7th grade when we were 12 at our little Christian School. We have been best friends ever since. Many of you see Laila and her daughter Ava on my blog often—her twin Laura is a doctor in Manhattan (Laila is a doctor also but is not practicing because she is raising her kids).

5. I’m taking this one from Jennifer—thanks—but I am a total purse and shoe addict. I have more purses than I would care to admit. I also cannot help myself from buying a great pair of shoes but they have to be on sale. My favorite places to buy my shoes are Marshalls and Nordstrom Rack. Both have high end shoes for CHEAP!!! Oh ya, I am totally CHEAP!!!

6. I am an avid snowboarder. I have been snowboarding since college and love it!! I taught the boys to snowboard three years ago and they are really good also. They go down all the expert runs with me. Kev also picked up snowboarding reluctantly (he grew up in Canada and is an avid skier but to hang with the family he took up snowboarding).

7. I know this is a touchy subject and I know some of you may hate me for posting this BUT--- I AM A BIG TIME CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN!!! Don’t throw rocks at me but I just align with the party. I even worked for the Republican Party on the last election as a neighborhood representative. OK—I admitted it—don’t hate me—actually I am proud of my party J

Now I get to tag 7 people.

Isabelle’s mom at Simple Pleasures
Ellie’s mom over at Our Family
Fins mom at My little Bit O’ Shark Bait
Allies mom at For Allison With Love
Spicy Girls mom at Hunan Spice
Carson and Kamree’s mom at Follow The Leaders
Sophie, Silas and Sadie’s mom at From Journey to Journey

And since I cannot post without a picture or two I decided to post a NO NO picture. I heard Mia in the other room shaking something. She has a ton of toys that make a shaking sound so I just assumed she was playing with one of them. Well, she wasn’t. She had found some of the boy’s air soft bee bee’s and was shaking them all over the place. There is a little spout on the top of the jar of bee bees and the bee bees were spilling everywhere. By the time I came in to check on her, there were literally bee bee’s all over our downstairs. They were shaken EVERYWHERE!! At least she was attempting to put them back in the spout 1 by 1 (the girl has amazing fine motor dexterity) I had to get the vacuum out just to get all of them and I am still finding them 2 days later-- uggg!!!