If you could be any age again for a week, which would you choose?

Easy.  Seventeen.  But I would know my husband and we would be BFGF.  Except that he would be at his current temperament not his high school temperament.  I've been told he was a little feisty.  I loved high school.  Life was so easy then, and I didn't have any responsibilities.  Sure, I wasn't the mature and wise lady that I am now, but I saw some kids do cartwheels as they walked out of the local high school today, and I just thought I would really enjoy being there again.

Think about it,

Every time I did something stupid or weird, people just chalked it up to me being young!

I didn't have to make my own money.

I got to read books and study just because.  (now I love school, then I didn't love it so much back then...so I would go back understanding that learning RULES. Wow, I'm a super nerd.)

I didn't care that I was pretty dorky.  Except that I did quit band and join dance team (one would think this was to up my cool quotient), but that was really only so I could get attention from band guys.  Can I get an amen?

I could drive...and by then, I had gotten my NEW CAR!  I got a Mercury Cougar when I was a senior in high school.  Before that, I did have an 88 Buick Century.  Memory: When I got my new car,  I drove it home by myself from the dealership AND...I rolled the windows down and blasted Independent Women Part II from Charlie's Angels on repeat.  I thought I had MADE it.  wow.

 (Me choosing to be seventeen is also discounting that I have a son now, and I wouldn't trade that for anything...so I wouldn't really go back because being 29 is pretty great, but if I wasn't looking at the little face that I love so much...then seventeen is it.)

For now I will leave you with this...

Hey boys!  (I'm on the left, my friend Sarah is on the right.)

What Olympic sport do you think is the most beautiful to watch?

I'm going to split this into the two seasons of the Olympics...

Summer: I love to watch the women's uneven bars.  I think that it's so crazy to see them flip and fly around those bars.  It is scary because this can happen.

I saw this on one of the specials about Kerri Strug during the olympics coverage the other night..

I BARELY remember the magnificent seven even though I was 13 at the time!  It seems like I should remember that better.  I do know I watched them compete, but maybe I was just too concerned with who liked who in middle school band at the time.  Yikes.  I will also say that I have seriously enjoyed watching Michael Phelps win and win and win.  But, as for the most beautiful sport I think gymnastics definitely has that won. 

Winter:  I used to love me some figure skating.  Yamaguchi, Kwan, Witt, Kerrigan... I haven't watched as much in the past few olympics as you can tell by all my dated name references.  So I need a new sport to pick, hmmmmmmmmmm...speed skating is kind of cool.

I like the summer sports better.

Describe (in words or photos) your favorite reading space.

No photo for this post, because I love to read in our closet!  I don't really want you all to see our mess of clothes and shoes in there.

We moved into the most amazing house this year, and the master closet is super spacious.  I found out the other day that sitting on the floor in there is the perfect spot to read.  I am situated nicely under the windows so I get good natural sunlight,  I nurse my baby in there sometimes after his bath, so our extra boppy pillow is in there (also good for an impromptu nap on the floor, which is how the mister found me the other day...drooling, I might add....) and there is nothing to distract me really!  I find when I sit down to read downstairs I see the laundry or the dishes close by and get off track.  If I'm secluded upstairs I don't see the things I need to do as much and will actually enjoy my good quiet reading time.  Everything gets a little neglected, but when you are reading a book like Pride and Prejudice, it's worth it! Am I right, or am I right?