Way cool Sloane at Exclamation Points hit me with this meme. Before you continue here, please go visit her. I love Sloane’s fresh view on things. She’s a new grad entering the workforce – one point in a person’s life that I find so fascinating and exciting. She’s also a fellow Dallasite, so please show a little Texas love.
Here are the rules of the award:
1) Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.
2) Show the 7 winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Scrap.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.
3) List at least 10 honest things about yourself.
For better or for worse, here we go:
10. I’m debating closing my Facebook account. I feel too exposed. Have a mentioned lately that Em is a psuedonym?
9. I love, love, love being a SAHM. I don’t care if I land a corporate job again. If financial needs have to be met, I’d do anything to keep my family afloat. But as far as I’m concerned, I did my 10+ years of hard time – out on good behavior.
8. I find great satisfaction in a pile of clean laundry or the sound of the dishwasher running. I have to. I once ran publishing groups and art departments. Now I run a home. If I don’t find satisfaction in the little things, I will loose what’s left of my mind.
7. Ask me about any milestone in my adult life, and I can tell you what I weighed on that particular day. Try me. (Is this pathetic, or a typical woman?)
6. I feel bad if I can’t make my normal blog rounds. Like Mother’s Guilt kind of bad.
5. I don’t tell most of my real-world friends, the majority whom work outside the home, that I have a blog because I’m afraid they will see me as a self-indulged housewife. Which I am. How do I get ad space sold on this puppy?!
4. I’m overly sensitive to the question “are you guys having any more children?” – because deep in my heart I know what these polite people really want to ask – “are you going to try for a girl?” Think about it – would you ask that question to someone with one son and one daughter? See, way too sensitive.
3. Three years ago, #4 used to make me cry in my closet. Today, I carry the guilt of thinking that I somehow knew better than my Maker. My boys are my world. A girl would just mess it up with Barbies and pink crap 
. And I’d be in the poor house because of her wardrobe.
2. My lunch of choice these days is Twizzlers. They don’t have to stay warm, they are portable, and neither one of my children like them so I don’t have to worry about sharing.
1. My Youngest son has PKU (go ahead and Google it, totally cool, but take the info with a grain of salt. Thanks to Newborn Screening and modern medicine, Youngest is a “typical” two-year-old. We are fortunate.). When I first started this blog, I asked the few friends that I invited to join me here to not mention PKU (thanks guys for respecting that). For various reasons, I have family that is not aware of Youngest’s metabolic disorder. After six months of posting, it has become clear that a) I will never invite family to view this mess, and b) there is very little chance anyone will “discover” me. So I’m ready to share with you this lifelong journey of shaking hands with food. More on this to come.
There you have it – more honesty than Sloane probably intended, but I don’t do things half way.
My victims, um choices, are as follows:
1. Sarah at A Beautiful Day
2. Amy at The Bitchin’ Wives Club
3. Michelle at Mammatalk
4. Jori at Jeff & Me + Three
5. Lee at Moms without Blogs
6. Errant at My Own Circus Show
7. Michelle at Girl, Outnumbered
8. Amy at Life of a Nguyener
9. Shannon at Welcome to the Nuthouse
10. Michelle at Daily Grind Gone Mad
I know that’s 10 – I’m crazy like that.
