I’ve been count­ing down in my head to my 100th post for a while now. Then, I real­ized that I missed it! Whoops. So, for my 101st post on this blog, I decided to do a list of 101 things about me (and my fam­ily). Here it is:

1. My mom and I shared a hos­pi­tal room with my high school best friend and her mom when we were born (2 days apart).
2. We didn’t find out about that until we were 17 years old, because we weren’t from the same town until her fam­ily moved at age 14.
3. When I was younger, I thought I would become a nurse, a teacher, and a pet store employee when I grew up.
4. When I was around 7 or 8 years old, I started putting the same 3 items on my Christ­mas list every year: a phone in my room, a pet, and another brother or sister.
5. I have one sibling.
6. I never got any of those things.
7. Before I could read (well), my par­ents used to give me the mail addressed to “Cur­rent Res­i­dent” and tell me it was for me.
8. They gave me mail­ings from Byron Dor­gan and told me he was send­ing me mail.
9. I believed them until I was far too old to believe that sort of thing.
10. I had a great childhood.
11. I have great parents.
12. Most of my child­hood mem­o­ries revolve around play­ing at the neigh­bor hood park, play­ing with friends in my yard, or being with my extended family.
13. I learned to read before kindergarten.
14. I have loved to read for as long as I can remember.
15. When my brother had bowl­ing league, I spent the time at the library
16. I’m not sure he’d appre­ci­ate me remind­ing peo­ple he was in a bowl­ing league.
17. Fourth grade was my favorite year of ele­men­tary school. Thanks, Mrs. Becker!
18. By 6th grade, I had read nearly all the children/youth books in our library and checked out a Stephen King novel.
19. My sixth grade teacher called my par­ents to see what they thought about me hav­ing that book.
20. I didn’t actu­ally read it. It was a lit­tle too creepy for my age.
21. When I was in sev­enth grade, I had my first sort-of-real boyfriend.
22. We didn’t date or call each other or any­thing, but we were “together.”
23. When I was a junior in high school, I had two teach­ers tell me that he still “had the hots” for me.
24. I doubt the truth of #22.
25. I have been a North Dakota res­i­dent my entire life.
26. I flew on an air­plane for the first time when I was 16. I went to St. Louis, Mis­souri with 3 class­mates and a teacher from my school.
27. FHA (now known as FCCLA) was respon­si­ble for most of my travel prior to turn­ing 18.
28. Because of FCCLA, I was able to go to St. Louis, MO, New Orleans, LA, and Tokyo, Japan.
29. I spent 6 weeks in Japan with a host fam­ily the sum­mer I was 17.
30. I climbed (part of) Mt. Fuji.
31. I lived in cen­tral Tokyo when I was in Japan.
32. My Japan­ese fam­ily drove a Ford minivan.
33. When I was in Tokyo, I felt like I could not breathe because there were so many peo­ple and build­ings all around.
34. When I came home from Japan, I remem­ber what North Dakota air smelled like as I stepped off the airplane.
35. The only rea­son I needed to attend 4 years of high school was for my senior eng­lish and my senior social stud­ies class. I had enough classes/credits to grad­u­ate after 3 years.
36. I wanted to be a marine biol­o­gist when I was in high school.
37. That is not very likely when you live in North Dakota.
38. When I wrote my senior eng­lish paper about my future career, I chose civil engineering.
39. I was an engi­neer­ing major for 3 days in college.
40. I also majored in speech lan­guage pathology.
41. and ath­letic training
42. and ele­men­tary education
43. and mid­dle school education.
44. I stuck with the last two.
45. I have a dual major in ele­men­tary and mid­dle level education.
46. I have a mas­ters in spe­cial education.
47. I met my hus­band, Jason, in my first semes­ter of college.
48. I knew who he was in a class of 150ish people.
49. He didn’t know me, but it all worked out in the end.
50. We offi­cially met at a Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ Christ­mas Conference.
51. We dated for 10 months
52. and broke up for a year and a half.
53. Then, we dated for 8 months,
54. were engaged for 8 moths,
55. and got mar­ried in June of 2002.
56. Jason says that he knew we would get mar­ried the night we first met.
57. It took me another 3 years to fig­ure that out.
58. I don’t like the ends of chicken strips.
59. I don’t really like most meat at all.
60. If I had my choice, I would be vegetarian.
61. I have two sons.
62. I had two unmed­icated labors.
63. I am breast­feed­ing both my 15 month old and my almost 3 year old (will be 3 on Nov 3).
64. I am mar­ried to an early adopter (some­one who jumps onto new trends early).
65. I am not an early adopter.
66. Jason has intro­duced me to blogging,
67. NPR/MPR,
68. and being polit­i­cally moderate.
69. I’m no good at mod­er­a­tion. I like all or nothing.
70. I used to teach spe­cial edu­ca­tion before I had K.
71. When I tell peo­ple that, they say, “you must be really patient.”
72. I laugh when they say that.
73. I am a very emo­tional person.
74. I am eas­ily moved to cry.
75. There is a CVS com­mer­cial that makes me cry.
76. I like the Pixar movie Cars more than my son, I think.
77. I am plan­ning to run a half marathon in May of 2009.
78. I used to think that I wanted to have six children.
79. Now, I’m not sure how many I want.
80. For the first two years of our mar­riage, I did almost no cooking.
81. We had a rota­tion of about 4 meals that we used to space out meals in restaurants.
82. In the sum­mer of 2004, I decided to start try­ing one new meal a week.
83. Now we usu­ally eat 2–4 new meals a week.
84. I am try­ing to get rid of high fruc­tose corn syrup in our house.
85. I love cin­na­mon rolls.
86. I love caramel rolls.
87. I once found (what I think was) a cock­roach in the base­ment of the apart­ment building/house we were liv­ing it.
88. I put it in a sand­wich bag and left it on the kitchen table to show to Jason when he got home from work.
89. Think­ing about that now still gives me the creeps.
90. I some­times get the urge to move some­where far away from North Dakota.
91. I will prob­a­bly never move all that far from North Dakota…maybe Moor­head or East Grand Forks?
92. I am pas­sion­ate about breast­feed­ing and the ben­e­fits of breast­milk for moms and babies.
93. I am becom­ing more and more inter­ested and pas­sion­ate about con­ser­va­tion, green liv­ing, fair trade, and organic food.
94. I want to learn to knit
95. I have started play­ing the piano again, but our piano badly needs to be tuned.
96. I am pleased with where my life is 10 years after high school graduation.
97. I miss my brother and sister-in-law and wish they lived closer.
98. I love to watch football
99. and hockey.
100. Hav­ing kids has sig­nif­i­cantly reduced my sports watch­ing time.
101. Ide­ally, if I have more chil­dren, I would love to give birth to them at The Farm.

There you have it! Those are my 101 things. If you got all the way to the end, I’m impressed!