Five Question Friday - We Love to Party

I'm sure Mama M. over at My Little Life has no idea that I've been stalking her blog all these years. I finally decided to join in on Five Question Friday with a post of my own instead of just reading everyone else's.  (That, and I have sixty thousand posts bouncing around in my head and this just seemed easier.)   

1. What's your view on men wearing sandals (yay or nay)? 
     Unless he's at the beach or poolside, I say a big "nay."  Otherwise, I don't want to see his big hairy feet, or worse yet, his athletic-sock-clothed big hairy feet.  Of course, I live in Portland, Oregon, where the men wear sandals year round.  So my view's not that popular here.  Oh well, I'm sticking to my guns on this one.  Tim Gunn, that is...

2. What song do you love but are embarrassed to admit?

     Oh, definitely "We Love to Party" by the Vengaboys.  Every time I hear it, I turn it up and want to go to Six Flags. (remember those commercials with the old man dancing?)  I may or may not try to dance as awesomely as he did. 

3. What summer camp should they make for moms?

     I would hope it would feature five-star hotel suites as accomodations - no lumpy, hard-as-a-rock bunk beds please!  I mean, I envision a lot of sleep happening at this camp; so the beds need to be comfortable!  And that's pretty much it - sleeping camp!  Oh, wait, I want to eat too.  The best thing about this camp would be that I would get to sit down and be served my meals.  First.  And I wouldn't have to cook them.  Awesome sauce.

4. What is the most romantic song? (Not necessarily your favorite or your wedding song...)

      Oooo, this is a hard one.  I think I would pick "At Last" by Etta James.  Although, I do love the extreme cheesiness (and subsequent fond high school memories) of Brian McKnight's "Back at One."  Haha.

5. Do you have an embarrassing pregnancy story?

    Yes.  Technically, it was post-pregnancy, but it involved maternity clothing so I am claiming it as a pregnancy story.  It happened just a couple of months after I gave birth to our third child. The hubs and I were going to a fancy event, but the only formal dress I had that fit was a maternity dress.  It didn't really look like a maternity dress, I reasoned to myself, and the Nerd concurred.  "You look great in it," he said in that absent-minded tone that meant he was just saying whatever he thought I wanted to hear at the time.  We went to the performance and enjoyed ourselves greatly.  One of the featured singers was very obviously pregnant.  When she came out for the second half of the performance, she was wearing the exact same dress that I was.  I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide.  Probably nobody noticed - oh wait, we went with a big group from our church...

But as the Nerd pointed out later, when I finally resorted to speaking to him again, "You obviously have great taste in clothes, babe." 

And that brings us to the weekend, folks!  Have a wonderful day, and don't forget to check out the other blogs linked up for Five Question Friday.  I am especially curious to see how others answer #2  and #4.  (please, please, don't anyone put "My Heart Will Go On"...)

Five Question Friday - On Pointless Pillows and Patchy Purple Polish

I'm participating in Five Question Friday today. It makes for a good post and honestly the kids have not destroyed anything or done anything insanely ridiculous in the last few days (which we all know makes good reading. and a tired, frustrated mom.)

Here's this week's questions:

1. Do you apologize to your kids?

2. What color are your nails right now?

3. When you were growing up, how difficult was it for you to stay home from school sick? (As in, did you have to vomit or just say "I don't feel good".)

4. When is the last time you bought a new comforter for your bed?

5. Favorite website(s)?

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1. Do you apologize to your kids?

I certainly have. I probably say, "Momma's really sorry she just yelled like that at you" at least every few days. Then there's the eat-crow-and-want-to crawl-into-a-hole apology when I make a promise to one of my kids and then am unable to follow through on it. :( So not fun. But hey, every time they hurt each other with words or punches I make them apologize to each other. It's not going to be real to them if they don't see it in Momma too!

2. What color are your nails right now?

Purple (like grape jelly). I painted them on Monday and already it has completely vanished off the index fingers of both hands. Sigh - between cheap polish and housework - they didn't stand a chance!

3. When you were growing up, how difficult was it for you to stay home from school sick? (As in, did you have to vomit or just say "I don't feel good".)

I was one of those weird nerdy kids that absolutely HATED missing school and would do everything in my power to make sure I got to school each day. If that meant hiding a fever or a persistent cough, I did! With my siblings, however, they had to definitely "prove" illness in order to get out of school. If we had a bad cold, tissues and cough drops were put in the backpacks, and we were sent off to school.

4. When is the last time you bought a new comforter for your bed?

At least three or four years - I really have no idea. If hubby had his way, there would be no comforter at all. The comforter gets too hot and heavy to sleep under; so its purpose is really just to make the bed look nice during the day. At night, we immediately take it down and put a lighter blanket in its place. I sometimes wonder - what's the point?, but it really is pretty. Besides, without the comforter and all those pointless pillows, I wouldn't have something to occupy ten minutes of each morning and evening.

5. Favorite website(s)?

Okay, here's a few that I regularly visit and use: (besides Facebook and Twitter!)

1. MADE - great ideas and patterns to make stuff - love it!

2. Etsy - my favorite kind of window shopping

3. Kitchen Stewardship - great, healthy recipes

4. Cake Wrecks - for much-needed laughs

5. Pixel of Ink - the reason why I have over 100 books on my Kindle, none of which I paid a single cent for.

Whew. It was hard to narrow those down.

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