A little about me

First of all, I have to give a huge shout-out to my oldest blogging friend Gina. She was one of the first people to comment on my blog and to bring other comment love my way. She took a little break from the blogging scene but is back and I am excited to catch up on her life with four beautiful girls. Check her out at The Woman Behind the Blog.

I have also added a few new links to my sidebar- places I've been hanging around lately. Check them out too.

Okay- here are some little known facts about me. Ready?

• I was a cheerleader in junior high and high school. (don't ask. I don't know why)
  
• My best friend in the whole wide world has been in my life since the fourth grade.
• We moved approximately every three to four years while I was growing up. The longest I ever spent in one school was my four years of high school.
• The first time I got drunk was when I was fourteen at a neighbor's house. He was a grown man who used to have parties for all the neighborhood kids. Creepy.
• The last time I got drunk was the summer before I got pregnant with Samantha. It was the 4th of July and I think there was something about dancing on tables. I don't really remember. ;)
  
• I am very, very Lutheran. I come from a staunch German Lutheran family- going back generations. My maiden name is incredibly German and my sisters and I are the first in our family to marry outside of the German Lutheran faith. (our husbands are Lutheran, but not German. Yes, there is a difference.)
• I hate sauerkraut and brats. (don't tell my Grandma)
  
• I attended Lutheran elementary school through 8th grade. I then attended public high school but went to a Lutheran liberal arts college.
• Derick and I met when I was a senior in high school and we both worked at the same grocery store. He worked in dairy and I worked in produce and we used to joke about him coming over to feel my melons.
  
• I once told my mother that I didn't think I wanted to have children.
• My junior year of college I suffered from a severe bout of depression. My roommates staged an intervention and told me to get help. I did.
• I have had more speeding tickets than I can count.
  
• The summer after high school I spent 8 weeks in Germany. Very cool. Except I did not speak German.
  
• Before we had children we had dogs. These dogs were our children. That's how I knew Derick would make a great father- because he spoiled our dogs.
• Having children has so radically altered my life and the way I think, I don't even recognize the old me. I feel like my life began when I had my babies.

Okay. I'm done. I don't know why I felt the need to share all of that. Some weird hormonal urge or something. I hope you enjoyed it!