Summer tagged me too…<\/p>\n
1. I hate all condiments.\u00a0 At first I thought it was vinegar that I hated (which would explain why I love cucumbers, hate pickles; love tomato sauce, hate ketchup).\u00a0 Now I think it is also a texture thing.\u00a0 I can’t imagine eating a blob of mustard, mayonnaise, cream cheese, sour cream…yuck!\u00a0 Sadly, this food aversion means I (like Sarah) won’t eat chicken salad and lots of creamy dips.\u00a0 Just grosses me out.<\/p>\n
2. All my life I have been a bad girlfriend to other women.\u00a0 I tend to get along with men better than women and I thought that was just how my friendships would be the rest of my life.\u00a0 Only in the last few years have a really learned the value of solid girlfriends.\u00a0 Now I wish I hadn’t lost so much time and so many friends over the years.\u00a0 Girlfriends are the best!!!<\/p>\n
3. I am strangely happy at my job.\u00a0 I have lots of friends at work and enjoy what I’m doing.\u00a0 That has never happened to me before and it makes the decisions of what to do once baby comes very challenging.\u00a0 After searching for 5 years, can I really give up the most enjoyable job I’ve had?\u00a0 Not a question I’m ready to tackle just yet.<\/p>\n
4. I’m also weird about Christmas morning.\u00a0 I don’t like to go anywhere on Christmas day.\u00a0 My entire life I have politely agreed to attend family Christmas gatherings on the day because I had to.\u00a0 All the while I vowed that when I had children I wouldn’t force the same thing on them.\u00a0 (To clarify, it isn’t that I don’t want to see family and celebrate Christmas, quite the opposite.\u00a0 I just want to do the family gatherings on a different day.\u00a0 Christmas should be about staying home and enjoying each other without having to\u00a0get dressed if you don’t want\u00a0to.)\u00a0 My aunt has said that when her kids were little she told family that they were welcome at her house, but they weren’t leaving their house.\u00a0 Seems like a great idea to me.<\/p>\n
5. I love to entertain.\u00a0 not sure where this comes from, maybe its because my mom didn’t like to do it that I have developed an affinity for it.\u00a0 This is how I show people love.\u00a0 I’m not so good with the physical showcases of love, but I will surely cook for you if I love you!<\/p>\n
6. After spending the weekend with my grandmother (she stayed at our house) I started to understand some of my weird traits…because I’m just like her!!\u00a0 She asks tons of questions (like my 800 questions a day quota), she needs to know what’s going on and what the plans are (this is totally opposite of both my parents!!) and she gets very frustrated when people don’t do what they commit to do.\u00a0 I possess all of these seemingly inane traits which wouldn’t be too strange except that no one in my family has these traits.\u00a0 It was wonderful to finally figure out why\u00a0I’m so particular and why I’m so bossy.\u00a0 It comes\u00a0straight from Gramma K!!!<\/p>\n
7. I’m beginning to get nervous about having a boy.\u00a0 The more time I spend with little boys the more I realize I truly know nothing about raising them.\u00a0 I’m such a planner that I know I will find a way to prepare myself (or at least prepare myself that I can’t prepare for this kind of miracle), and I know that\u00a0we will be fine.\u00a0 But I’m more nervous than I thought I would be.\u00a0 Should be quite an adventure!!<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer tagged me too… 1. I hate all condiments.\u00a0 At first I thought it was vinegar that I hated (which would explain why I love cucumbers, hate pickles; love tomato sauce, hate ketchup).\u00a0 Now I think it is also a texture thing.\u00a0 I can’t imagine eating a blob of mustard, mayonnaise, cream cheese, sour cream…yuck!\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}