Getting to Know Us

Hello, TTA friends! Welcome! I can't wait to follow you back!

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Since I have been meeting so many new friends, I thought I would do a post about some random facts about our family. It will help you to get to know us a little better. While you get to know us, you can journey through the Bronx Zoo with us, which we visited this past weekend when down in Darien, CT with my husband's parents.

My husband and I have been married almost 3 and a half years. We got married the weekend after we graduated college.

My mother is a twin, and my husband's mother is a twin. So our family is used to seeing sets of two!

My husband and I grew up in Christian homes and are very strong Christians to this day. We are active in our local church, and we start each morning in prayer together.

My "crunchiness" started when I was in college and I took a biology class. Learning how intricate and wonderful the Lord made our bodies made me want to treat it like a temple. I want to stay as chemical and toxic free as possible!

As much as I am all about saving money, doing things from scratch, and handmade things, if we could afford to eat out at local restaurants every night, I would! Not chain restaurants, or fast food, but the local family restaurants that are plentiful in our Boston neighborhood.

My husband has been at his job, at PricewaterhouseCoopers, for 3 years and recently got promoted. He is also finishing up his last year getting his MBA, which he has been doing part time. He is very, very busy! We are looking forward to when he is at a point in his career where he can be home more regularly and can enjoy more of his vacation time.

I have never had a job in my field (I have a teaching license for the state of MA), and I never plan on it.

I have no idea how to actually watermark a photo. I have been faking it through Flickr, which takes for.ev.er!

Honestly, when I am reading through blog posts on Google Reader, and I have about 100 new posts to read, if a post doesn't have a picture, I often skip over it. Horrible, I know.

Some days I wish we could get rid of all our stuff, and move to an African Village and do mission work. I would love to be free of material goods for a while. However, it is hard to be free of material goods in the city!

I am horrible at math. I don't even know my basic time tables from 6-8. If you ask me what 6x7 is, I have to count it out in my head. (Wow, that does not make me look great!)

I miss my husband every time we are apart. Even if he runs to the store to get milk on the weekend, I wish that he didn't have to leave so we could still be together. This makes his long working days very hard sometimes.

After the kids go to bed, I go in at least 5 or 6 times once they are asleep to kiss them and just look at them sleeping peacefully.

If my husband would allow it, I would have 10 children. I would LOVE a huge family!

I would love to be a foster parent in the future. I have such a heart for little ones in need.

I would love to live a year or so in another part of the country, but my husband has this love affair for Boston and could never see himself anywhere else.

If I am not leaving the house on any given day, I don't get dressed except for a pair of sweats and a t-shirt.

I spend too much time online. Between my iphone, ipad, and imac, I am constantly connected.

I have seen the whole series of Friends (which I own) at least 250 times. My roommate and I in college would have it playing constantly whenever we were in the room. Even while we were doing school work, it was on. I can go through almost every aspect of my day and apply a Friends quote to the situation.

I am very blessed in life because I have the Lord watching out for my life and my future. I don't have to worry about how everything will turn out, I just have to have faith that the Lord will guide us down the best path for us and be receptive to following His plan.

I still have a soar neck from carrying that huge boy on my shoulders!!