Getting to know you

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. Getting to hope you like me 🙂

Because of all…the..beautiful and new, things I’m learning about you, day-by-day!

Does anyone else see Deborah Kerr dancing around her Siamese classroom singing to her school children in that over-the-top-hoop skirt?

It was the first thing I thought of when I recieved this blog award, the Liebster Award.

I would like to thank the academy for this award! Being nominated with so many amazing and long time bloggers just humbles me. I would also like to thank my husband who makes my blogging happen! I would like to thank my children, who hardly ever make blogging happen. My parents, I have wonderful parents, who never felt like they guided my hyperactive, creative self. See, we made it!!!!

Now, you readers may get these things all the time, but I don’t. It brought a smile to my face and a song to my brain. So let’s all dance around in our imaginary hoop skirts and get to know each other better 😉

I was given the award by Natasha over at A Life Worth Living. I ‘met’ Natasha as a pre-chaplain spouse while she was blogging about the adventure of becoming a Chaplain family. It was a walk down memory lane reading her stories of Chaplain school and the jitters involved with waiting for that first assingment, packing for a PCS, having the military movers rummage through your stuff…ah, memories 😉

The Liebster Award does come with a few requirements:

• Share 11 fun facts about yourself
• Answer 11 questions from the nominator (Natasha gave me permission to just answer the same ones given to her, I thought they were pretty good!)
• Nominate 11 bloggers for this award (must have less than 200 followers must be blogs you enjoy reading, I will be taking bribes for your desired nomination 😉 Starbucks always works)
•  Create 11 questions for the nominees to answer (bwahahahaha)

Random facts about Kay…

• I taught myself how to play the piano and I dearly wish I could sight read better than I do
• I play the violin, I was first chair in my high school orchestra, and you will NEVER hear me play because by the end of my senior year my stage fright was so bad I was throwing up before each concert and recital. It’s a very severe stage fright.
• I will wait until the last possible moment to head to the bathroom if I am into a project. Stopping for rest room breaks has always annoyed me 😦

• My left foot is slightly longer than my right 😦
• I would still be a heavy smoker if it wasn’t for my husband. Without him, I really had no desire to quit that bad habit.
• I would drive a truck, each time and every time, if I didn’t have 5 children to haul around with me. I hate my minivan 😦  Alaska has fed my ‘truck envy’ like you wouldn’t believe. My army buddies let me drive all the big trucks I wanted when I was in. Thanks to learning on a stick shift, I could drive the big deuce & 1/4 trucks 😉
• My intense personality and hyperactivity made my mother change her mind about how many kids she wanted. Before I came along, she wanted 6. After I was born, she thought maybe just 2 would be ok.
• In high school, my male friends would ask me to help them change tires because I knew how to do it and they didn’t. (thanks dad!!!)
• I pushed my husband into the Chaplaincy because I was desperate for some real income after 4 years of seminary, living on rice and beans. Ben was seriously considering a PhD right after his Masters.
• I used to have absolutely NO patience for people who couldn’t keep up with me. I thought weakness was intolerable. I learned real quick after being paralyzed following nerve damage after child birth and a very slow recovery from this broken arm. Sometimes the body just doesn’t do what we wish it would. I have been in tears this last month over not being able to open a pickle jar because my left arm/hand is still very weak 😦
• I am very thankful God gave me a super hero for a guardian angel in high school. I won’t go into all of it, but I did nearly kill myself being stupid over and over again.

Now for the questions from Natasha…