You love me! You really love me!! You better love me because everyone reading this is either related to me or a friend! Either case leaves you at my mercy for reading my every blogging whim. To that end, my friend Tracey over at Tales of Little Bitty gave me a blogger award this past week! If you take a gander over at her mack-daddy blog you can see that she really truly earned this award. Her pictures are fantastic, the graphic design (done by Tracey, by the way) is amazing and her son, Jack, is beyond words! My blog? Not so much. But hey, my kids are cute.


Part of the award is to list 10 random things about me. I can't promise that all of them are going to be noteworthy, but here goes:

• I am a proud extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby wearing, intactavist, cloth diapering, attached parent to 2 beautiful boys and wife to Matthew Raines going on 5 years.

• The beach is a 10 minute walk from my house. This is the best place I've ever lived.

• I have issues with bread.

• I'm realizing that I have a lot more of my Jewish grandmother in me than I thought. I never think anyone eats enough.

• My fitness goal for this year (and possibly next depending on how things go) is to learn how to surf.

• Once I become interested in something, it quickly turns into an obsession. My current ones? Mei Tais (no, not a drink) and grilling

• I think Christopher Columbus was a terrible human being and I taught my 1st graders why.

• I used to host a classic rock show on my high school radio station. It was called "Revival." Inmates from the county jail would collect call the request line. "Do you accept a collect call from: PLAY SOME SKYNARD!!!" is something I heard once a week for 2 years. I have a crazy amount of classic rock knowledge for someone who was born 20 years after it began.
  

• Housekeeping is the hardest part of being a stay-at-home mother for me.
  

• I'm not sure if I want to go back into teaching when I'm ready to rejoin the work force.