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!