Day 26- My favorite food

Hands down I would say pasta.   I actually ate some for lunch today. 

I love it with a little red wine or balsamic vinegar, feta cheese and butter.  Although I might have to give up the vinegar for a while, it made my stomach churn a little.  This baby better love it as much as I do. 

I also love it with marinara sauce (no meat) and cheese.

It's the one food I could probably eat every day.

 

Day 25-Describe my Location

Right at the moment I'm sitting parked on the couch at my house which is on a quiet dead on street in a small town in West Michigan where I grew up.

The house the day Rob closed on it in 2009

I wish the house looked like it does in the picture.  There is snow on the ground right now, and I'd love to be able to see the grass again. 

I like our quiet street and the fact that it will be a great place to raise or kids, or at least the first few (we have 2 extra bedrooms, but I want more than 2 kids).

Living a mile from my parents & Rob's dad has it's perks.  Rob's mom only lives 20-25 minutes away, and our siblings are within 30-35 minutes. 

I do wish that I could live somewhere warmer, somewhere that I wouldn't have to bundle up in heavy layers half the year, but our family is here and I'm not sure I'd want to live so far away from them.  

Day 20-What do you collect?

At this point in my life I don't know if I really 'collect' anything.  I save a lot of things though.

When we go on trips I save receipts, a drink coaster from wherever we ate, the little things that remind me of the memories we made. 

I do try to pick up a key chain from every place we go.  I hang those on the Christmas tree.  Those are another trip down memory lane.  Does that count as a collection?

When I was younger I collected barbie trading cards.  I never traded them though.  I'd bet that my parents still have them in the basement somewhere.  I had a big poster that listed all of them and I'd check off the ones I had.  I probably had at least 75% of them.  I would constantly get them out and sort them out.  I sorted by year, by outfit, by barbie in the picture.  The back of the cards had facts about the outfit in the picture and the year the barbie was released.  I probably had those memorized at one point during my childhood. 

Day 18-Where are you the happiest?

I'm super lame, but honestly I'm the happiest at home in my sweatpants or in the summer sitting on the deck in the sunshine reading a book.

Day 17- Why & when I started blogging.

I started blogging last summer (2012).  We were beginning the process of trying to get pregnant with our first and since we weren't telling anyone in real life, I needed an outlet so I didn't drive Rob crazy with all the talk.

Reading other bloggers experiences had always helped me and I hoped that somehow my writing would help someone else.

Despite the anonymity that can happen, it's still nice to know that someone somewhere 'gets it.'

I think the hardest part initially was coming up with a name.  I lack creativity with things like that. I wish I could have come up with something more clever or witty, but it works. 

Now I feel like coming up with topics is difficult.  I write a weekly pregnancy update and this blog challenge is helpful, but other than that it's a struggle sometimes. 

As a whole however, I am happy with where my blog is at right now.  

31 day blog challenge-March 4

I feel like I am only blogging my weekly pregnancy updates and occasionally another post throughout this week.  I hope that these prompts are going the help me.  I tend to think I need something great or elaborate to write about, but really I can just keep it simple.  

Day 4- When we were kids my mom used to golf in a Wednesday night league.  My dad would take us to the Corner Bar and we would get hot dogs at the walk up window and go to the dam (about a block away) and eat them and watch the water and the fishermen.  I was always afraid I was going to fall in the water.  There are rails, obviously, I don't know why I thought this.   My dad will still go there for hot dogs when he is in the area and he usually will call me and tell me he has some.