1. I am a wife and mother.
I am a lot of things, but these days I mainly define myself as Eddie's wife and Bryce, Annie, Isaac and Maren's mom. I have a ring on my finger and a warm body (or two) to cuddle up to in bed each night. I drive a minivan and consider takeout and a dvd to be a hot date. But I draw the line at the mom jeans.
2. I am a runner.
What was I doing last month, two days before delivering Maren? And what was I doing when she was two weeks old? I am that crazy woman who wakes up before the rest of the house to get in five or six miles on a Friday morning. I am the neglectful parent who ignores the fighting preschoolers in the other room until I complete a lap on the treadmill. I am the one with the jiggly belly who belts out the tunes on her iPod as she runs down the street.
3. I am a reader.
How many books did I read last year? Eightysomething, I think. As soon as I finish one, I start another. My two-year-old noted the other day that "Mama always have a book." With a newborn, I do a lot more of carrying that book around like a little security blanket and a lot less reading, but even now, reading is sort of like eating to me. If I don't do it every day, there must be something wrong with me.
4. I am a careless cook.
I just burned our dinner. It was soup. I can cook well, but most of the time I just toss in a little of this and a little of that. It works for Rachael Ray, doesn't it?
5. I am a sucker for cute baby clothes.
Does a 5 week-old baby really need three pairs of legwarmers or faux Mary Jane moccasins. Of course not. But buying baby clothes is one of my vices. I wonder what I'll do when I don't have a baby anymore.
6. I am a planner.
I love organizing and getting things down on paper. You may remember my posts about to-do lists from several months ago. Or how frustrated I was last year at this time because I wasn't getting pregnant quite as quickly as I would have liked. I'm the kind of girl who reads the last page of a mystery first and who likes to be able to predict how things will happen, in a nice, neat, linear sort of way.
7. I am a distracted driver.
You know, the one yelling at kids in the back of the car and scrolling through songs on the iPod, all while talking on the phone and eating fast food. Yeah, that would be me. But thanks to my friend Alicia, at least my precious cargo is buckled up securely.
8. I am a MOF.
That's right, I'm one of those geeky girls who has friends on the computer. In fact, my computer addiction is sometimes a bit of a problem, resulting in things like tonight's burned dinner. What do you expect of a girl who met her husband at computer camp?
9. I am a poet.
Or at least I used to be, for a couple of months about a year ago when life was a little bit less busy. Maybe it's one of those things that comes in fits and starts. For now, you can check out a few of my favorites here and here and here.
10. I am a Target shopper.
Not a Wal-Mart girl here. Just like the democrat/republican label says a lot about people, I think that where you fall on the Target/Wal-Mart spectrum says a lot too. I live closer to Wal-Mart, but go there about twice a year. Target gets my money about twice a week.
--originally published 2/1/07
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