This post has taken me FOREVER to write...I literally have been working on it for two weeks and I am SO glad to finally be done with it!!
This past week I was nominated by two other triplet Mommas for the Liebster Award. So sweet of both of them! Thank you to The Farrell 5 and And Triplets Make 8.
For those of you who are not familiar with the Liebster Award, it is a fun way for smaller bloggers (under 200 followers) to be recognized for their contribution they make to the blogosphere.
The rules are:
- Thank the Liebster Blog presenter who nominated you and link back to their blog.
- Post 11 facts about yourself by answering the 11 questions you were asked and create 11 questions for your nominees.
- Nominate 11 blogs who you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog letting them know that they have been chosen.
- Display the Liebster Award logo.
- No tag backs - you cannot tag back someone who nominated you.
Since I was nominated twice within the same week, I am going to answer both sets of questions, make 11 questions, and then nominate 11 blogs to answer those questions.
So here are the first set of questions that I was asked from The Farrell 5:
1. If you could re-live one day in your life so far, what day would that be? Phew, that's a hard one. It would honestly be a toss up between a few days; our wedding day (for obvious reasons), Christmas Day 2010 (the first day I held each of the triplets), Emily's birth (it was a glorious VBAC and I would love to re-live that again!) and the day I graduated with my Master's Degree.
2. What is your greatest accomplishment? I would have said my Master's Degree. That got smushed when I became pregnant with triplets. It was an accomplishment just to get pregnant. And then carry triplets to 32w2d's, that was awesome! And then to get pregnant on our own twice, that was super awesome. So after all that, I would say taking care of five little girls under 2.5 years old by myself, day to day, is quite an accomplishment, that few experience and I am proud of it!!
3. What is your favorite meal? Anything Italian. Or pretty much any seafood. Normal seafood, I'm not talking squid and nasty stuff like that.
4. What is your favorite book? Another hard one. I would say most of the Nicolas Sparks books. I couldn't pick one, I love them all. I also own every single one of them.
5. If you were to change careers, what would you do? I don't think I could pick one. I would love to be a NICU Nurse. Or a police officer. Or anything in criminal justice. Or an adoption counselor. With my social work degree, I chose to specialize in mental health because I love finding out why people are the way they are and what brought them to where they are (whether that be homelessness, mental health, criminal activity, ect.). It's just very fascinating to me. The more severe the mental health, the more fascinating to me...I know I am weird. I LOVE 48 Hours and anything on Dateline ID for this reason. Murder mysteries, kidnappings...I love it all.
6. What kind of jobs have you had? I started babysitting at 13 years old and did that all through high school. I nannied all through undergrad and most of grad school. I worked at my mom's day care center. I worked at Best Buy for a half of year (I was on the only girl with sixteen guys in the Home Theater dept ;)). I was the first person in my undergrad social work class to get a social work job, before graduation at a place called Interfaith Works. Loved my job at Interfaith Works, but during my last year of grad school, I had to quit to focus on school, my internship and getting pregnant! I had 3 internships through school, one at the county's Pre-Release Center (a place where inmates begin to re-enter into the community), then I was at Child Welfare Services (it was okay, but I hated my boss with a passion) and then my last year I was at our county jail, which was my favorite job I've ever had. I had the BEST boss, who became a good friend, and she was an amazing social worker who taught me so much. In fact, I jut received an email that she was leaving her position this month and if I wasn't at home with five little kids right now, I would do almost anything to get her job!It kinda breaks my heart that I can't!
7. What is the best thing about where you live? I think the best thing about where we live (about 40 minutes to the northwest of DC) is that you can be down on the National Mall in 40 minutes or you can be white water rafting in the Appalachian Mountains within a few minutes too. You can be a the White House or Kennedy Center or go play in mud and hike, and we live right in between both. The beach is 3 hours away too, which I can't imagine not living somewhere where there is no beach!
8. Tell us something about you that most people don't know. Hmm, I HATE wire hangers. My mom and my sister always said they were going to come over and take all my plastic hangers and switch them with wire. *shivers* Also, the hangers that I hang the girls clothes on, like three matching outfits, have to have matching color hangers too. I cannot have a white hanger and two pink hangers for three matching outfits...I couldn't sleep if that happened! ;)
9. What is your favorite thing about being a mom? Just the simple everyday stuff. Yes, it's mundane. Yes, it's hard. Yes, I have lots of bad days. Yes, I'm busy and some days I kinda complain about it.And yes, I am far from a perfect mom and my children, household are both far from perfect. But really at the end of the day there is no where I rather be than at home with my family. My little girls mean the most to me than anything in this world. Sometimes I just can't believe that this is MY life. God surely blessed me.
10. What is your favorite age (of kids)? I love when each of my babies are first born. That first month is just the best! The smell of them. The little noises. The little fists, stretches, when they are all bunched up. Oh, what is better?! But then when the start smiling and laughing, that is great too. And when they say "mama" for the first time or "I love you mama", what could be better than that? When they come running to YOU. Only want THEIR Momma! That's great too! And when they can TELL you what they want/need...it's like the heaven's are calling. Finally able to TELL you what they need/want! I swear it is so much easier that Claire can TELL me with real words what she wants/needs!
11. What is your favorite baby or kid product? Hmm, another hard one. Maybe the Baby K'tan. I can get things done that way, hands mostly free. Especially since having Anna. She is such a fussy baby and loves to be held. I wear the Baby K'tan at least once a day. Next I would say the Radian car seats that the triplets have. It made us be able to put three in a row which is a life saver. Also, the coo choo wagon. It's the simple things that make life a little easier when you have multiples. Oh, and a sound machine is a must for babies, I think.
And here are the questions I was asked from And Triplets Make 8:
1. What is your favorite type of shoe? That's totally simple; the flip flop.
2. What's one goal you have for yourself in the next five years? To potty-train my children. And get really good at sewing so I can make lots of little dresses and other things.
3.What type of candy is your favorite? Reese's pb cups. And cold, right out of the fridge is best.
4. What is your favorite season? I can't pick one. I like something about them all. Really. Winter is great because I LOVE snow and I love to ski. Also Christmas, and my birthday are in the winter. Spring is blah, but it's fun look finally look forward to warm weather, but other than that it's my least favorite season. Summer is nice because you don't have to load the kids with layers of clothes and jackets. Less to bring and less to carry. Love the beach and putting my toes in the sand. I love fall though the most I guess. The food, the holidays, all the festivals, probably number one favorite season.
5. What do you do in your free time? What's that?
6. Why did you start blogging? I started blogging in college, in grad school, I believe. I was so bored sitting in one of my classes and I can remember sitting and reading a few blogs. I think about that girl who started blogging and it's so different from the woman I am today. I was so naive and just wanted to vent. I wanted to know what others were doing to get pregnant. Why I wasn't getting pregnant. It was a way for me to connect with other people struggling with infertility. I found so many encouraging blogs and met some wonderful women, and families that I still have contact with, both in the blogosphere and in real life. People have found my blog from all over the world. I have had random people come up to me in the strangest of places and say they read my blog. I absolutely love when that happens! :) It really makes me day! I am so glad I started blogging because I had no idea that my journey would take me from infertility to five little girls in 2.5 years! I love that our family that doesn't live near us can read our adventures and see photos of the girls growing. I love that I am creating a meaningful memory book for my girls. They can look back and read why I did something a certain way, know my feelings and God forbid anything ever happens to me, they could really "know" their Momma by reading our blog.
7.What 3 words describe you best? Geeze, this was hard, I hate talking about me. Caring, organized, persistent.
8. Are you allergic to anything? Yup, sulfa/sulfur products, latex and rubber.
9. What did you want to be when you were little? Ironically, how weird is this...all I ever wanted to be was a NICU Nurse. For as long as I can remember. And the reason I am not a NICU nurse is because I failed Chemistry twice. Well, actually failed it once, and withdrew the second time. But social work is my true passion for sure.
10. What is your favorite TV show to date? Oh my, there is no way I can pick one. I watch a lot of TV and DVR a lot of shows to watch in the middle of the night while feeding Anna and while the girls are napping. Let's see, I'll name a few: Survivor (never missed an episode ever, since I was 14), CSI (only the original), Revenge, Big Brother, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, The Little Couple, Life Below Zero, Dance Moms, Sister Wives, Breaking Amish, Extreme Weight Loss, Biggest Loser, I'm Having Their Baby, Pretty Wicked Moms, Housewives of OC and New York, Giuliana and Bill, The Kardashians (I just make fun of them the whole time!), Dateline, 48 Hours, Brooklyn DA, 20/20, Duck Dynasty, Swamp People, Smash...I'm sure there are even more!
11. What is an interesting fact about you? I can hula-hoop really well and have won many contests over the years.
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These are my questions for my nominations:
1. What is your favorite vacation spot?
2. Tell us about your children's names and what made you chose the name you did.
3. Are you planning on having anymore children?
4. Do you prefer your nails painted?
5. What's your biggest pet peeve?
6. Tell us about you best friend.
7. If you could be any animal, what you would you be and why?
8. What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday with your hubby?
9. What was your first car?
10. If you could live anywhere, were would it be?
11. What's your least favorite food?
And here are my nominations:
1. l + k + e
2. The Isham's
3. 30 Fingers, 30 Toes
4. The Burton Family
5. Born in our Hearts
6. Twins, Plus One
7. The Life of the Georges
8. Happy Wills Family
9. The Koob Triplets
10. Refrigerator Memories
11. Alexander Triplets
So here are the first set of questions that I was asked from The Farrell 5:
1. If you could re-live one day in your life so far, what day would that be? Phew, that's a hard one. It would honestly be a toss up between a few days; our wedding day (for obvious reasons), Christmas Day 2010 (the first day I held each of the triplets), Emily's birth (it was a glorious VBAC and I would love to re-live that again!) and the day I graduated with my Master's Degree.
2. What is your greatest accomplishment? I would have said my Master's Degree. That got smushed when I became pregnant with triplets. It was an accomplishment just to get pregnant. And then carry triplets to 32w2d's, that was awesome! And then to get pregnant on our own twice, that was super awesome. So after all that, I would say taking care of five little girls under 2.5 years old by myself, day to day, is quite an accomplishment, that few experience and I am proud of it!!
3. What is your favorite meal? Anything Italian. Or pretty much any seafood. Normal seafood, I'm not talking squid and nasty stuff like that.
4. What is your favorite book? Another hard one. I would say most of the Nicolas Sparks books. I couldn't pick one, I love them all. I also own every single one of them.
5. If you were to change careers, what would you do? I don't think I could pick one. I would love to be a NICU Nurse. Or a police officer. Or anything in criminal justice. Or an adoption counselor. With my social work degree, I chose to specialize in mental health because I love finding out why people are the way they are and what brought them to where they are (whether that be homelessness, mental health, criminal activity, ect.). It's just very fascinating to me. The more severe the mental health, the more fascinating to me...I know I am weird. I LOVE 48 Hours and anything on Dateline ID for this reason. Murder mysteries, kidnappings...I love it all.
6. What kind of jobs have you had? I started babysitting at 13 years old and did that all through high school. I nannied all through undergrad and most of grad school. I worked at my mom's day care center. I worked at Best Buy for a half of year (I was on the only girl with sixteen guys in the Home Theater dept ;)). I was the first person in my undergrad social work class to get a social work job, before graduation at a place called Interfaith Works. Loved my job at Interfaith Works, but during my last year of grad school, I had to quit to focus on school, my internship and getting pregnant! I had 3 internships through school, one at the county's Pre-Release Center (a place where inmates begin to re-enter into the community), then I was at Child Welfare Services (it was okay, but I hated my boss with a passion) and then my last year I was at our county jail, which was my favorite job I've ever had. I had the BEST boss, who became a good friend, and she was an amazing social worker who taught me so much. In fact, I jut received an email that she was leaving her position this month and if I wasn't at home with five little kids right now, I would do almost anything to get her job!
7. What is the best thing about where you live? I think the best thing about where we live (about 40 minutes to the northwest of DC) is that you can be down on the National Mall in 40 minutes or you can be white water rafting in the Appalachian Mountains within a few minutes too. You can be a the White House or Kennedy Center or go play in mud and hike, and we live right in between both. The beach is 3 hours away too, which I can't imagine not living somewhere where there is no beach!
8. Tell us something about you that most people don't know. Hmm, I HATE wire hangers. My mom and my sister always said they were going to come over and take all my plastic hangers and switch them with wire. *shivers* Also, the hangers that I hang the girls clothes on, like three matching outfits, have to have matching color hangers too. I cannot have a white hanger and two pink hangers for three matching outfits...I couldn't sleep if that happened! ;)
9. What is your favorite thing about being a mom? Just the simple everyday stuff. Yes, it's mundane. Yes, it's hard. Yes, I have lots of bad days. Yes, I'm busy and some days I kinda complain about it.And yes, I am far from a perfect mom and my children, household are both far from perfect. But really at the end of the day there is no where I rather be than at home with my family. My little girls mean the most to me than anything in this world. Sometimes I just can't believe that this is MY life. God surely blessed me.
10. What is your favorite age (of kids)? I love when each of my babies are first born. That first month is just the best! The smell of them. The little noises. The little fists, stretches, when they are all bunched up. Oh, what is better?! But then when the start smiling and laughing, that is great too. And when they say "mama" for the first time or "I love you mama", what could be better than that? When they come running to YOU. Only want THEIR Momma! That's great too! And when they can TELL you what they want/need...it's like the heaven's are calling. Finally able to TELL you what they need/want! I swear it is so much easier that Claire can TELL me with real words what she wants/needs!
11. What is your favorite baby or kid product? Hmm, another hard one. Maybe the Baby K'tan. I can get things done that way, hands mostly free. Especially since having Anna. She is such a fussy baby and loves to be held. I wear the Baby K'tan at least once a day. Next I would say the Radian car seats that the triplets have. It made us be able to put three in a row which is a life saver. Also, the coo choo wagon. It's the simple things that make life a little easier when you have multiples. Oh, and a sound machine is a must for babies, I think.
And here are the questions I was asked from And Triplets Make 8:
1. What is your favorite type of shoe? That's totally simple; the flip flop.
2. What's one goal you have for yourself in the next five years? To potty-train my children. And get really good at sewing so I can make lots of little dresses and other things.
3.What type of candy is your favorite? Reese's pb cups. And cold, right out of the fridge is best.
4. What is your favorite season? I can't pick one. I like something about them all. Really. Winter is great because I LOVE snow and I love to ski. Also Christmas, and my birthday are in the winter. Spring is blah, but it's fun look finally look forward to warm weather, but other than that it's my least favorite season. Summer is nice because you don't have to load the kids with layers of clothes and jackets. Less to bring and less to carry. Love the beach and putting my toes in the sand. I love fall though the most I guess. The food, the holidays, all the festivals, probably number one favorite season.
5. What do you do in your free time? What's that?
6. Why did you start blogging? I started blogging in college, in grad school, I believe. I was so bored sitting in one of my classes and I can remember sitting and reading a few blogs. I think about that girl who started blogging and it's so different from the woman I am today. I was so naive and just wanted to vent. I wanted to know what others were doing to get pregnant. Why I wasn't getting pregnant. It was a way for me to connect with other people struggling with infertility. I found so many encouraging blogs and met some wonderful women, and families that I still have contact with, both in the blogosphere and in real life. People have found my blog from all over the world. I have had random people come up to me in the strangest of places and say they read my blog. I absolutely love when that happens! :) It really makes me day! I am so glad I started blogging because I had no idea that my journey would take me from infertility to five little girls in 2.5 years! I love that our family that doesn't live near us can read our adventures and see photos of the girls growing. I love that I am creating a meaningful memory book for my girls. They can look back and read why I did something a certain way, know my feelings and God forbid anything ever happens to me, they could really "know" their Momma by reading our blog.
7.What 3 words describe you best? Geeze, this was hard, I hate talking about me. Caring, organized, persistent.
8. Are you allergic to anything? Yup, sulfa/sulfur products, latex and rubber.
9. What did you want to be when you were little? Ironically, how weird is this...all I ever wanted to be was a NICU Nurse. For as long as I can remember. And the reason I am not a NICU nurse is because I failed Chemistry twice. Well, actually failed it once, and withdrew the second time. But social work is my true passion for sure.
10. What is your favorite TV show to date? Oh my, there is no way I can pick one. I watch a lot of TV and DVR a lot of shows to watch in the middle of the night while feeding Anna and while the girls are napping. Let's see, I'll name a few: Survivor (never missed an episode ever, since I was 14), CSI (only the original), Revenge, Big Brother, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, The Little Couple, Life Below Zero, Dance Moms, Sister Wives, Breaking Amish, Extreme Weight Loss, Biggest Loser, I'm Having Their Baby, Pretty Wicked Moms, Housewives of OC and New York, Giuliana and Bill, The Kardashians (I just make fun of them the whole time!), Dateline, 48 Hours, Brooklyn DA, 20/20, Duck Dynasty, Swamp People, Smash...I'm sure there are even more!
11. What is an interesting fact about you? I can hula-hoop really well and have won many contests over the years.
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These are my questions for my nominations:
1. What is your favorite vacation spot?
2. Tell us about your children's names and what made you chose the name you did.
3. Are you planning on having anymore children?
4. Do you prefer your nails painted?
5. What's your biggest pet peeve?
6. Tell us about you best friend.
7. If you could be any animal, what you would you be and why?
8. What's your favorite way to spend a Saturday with your hubby?
9. What was your first car?
10. If you could live anywhere, were would it be?
11. What's your least favorite food?
And here are my nominations:
1. l + k + e
2. The Isham's
3. 30 Fingers, 30 Toes
4. The Burton Family
5. Born in our Hearts
6. Twins, Plus One
7. The Life of the Georges
8. Happy Wills Family
9. The Koob Triplets
10. Refrigerator Memories
11. Alexander Triplets
Thanks for the nomination! That will be so much fun! I wanted to let you know I saw your comment on the Minnie Party post. I have those two big Minnie balloons, the banner, and the styrophome Minnie heads and I'd be happy to send them to you if you want to use them for your party. You can email me at dixiedara@yahoo.com if you're interested and I'll get those right out to you. I was about to trash them when I remembered you were doing the same party.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the nomination!! I loved getting to know you better :) I plan on getting this done next week!
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