This is the last time Kendra is hosting the Answer Me This link up (at least for now), so I couldn’t miss out this week.
1. What is your favorite picture book?
Oh my. No way could I answer with just one book. I wrote a guest post for the 101 Books blog last year about my favorite fictional picture books. That post included the top 15 books, but I linked it to a post on my blog that had 101 wonderful picture books.
Sooo, yeah. I really love picture books. If I had to choose one favorite favorite fictional picture book, it would probably be:
It is the book I enjoy reading the most, because I love doing the voices of the characters. And it makes me laugh. A close second:
And one more newish book that I love:
Because, obviously.
A couple of favorite nonfiction books include:
We have three copies of ^^ this one ^^. One has been read so much it’s falling apart. Lass used to sleep with it.
Also:
This book is huge, and it is filled with wonderful drawings of so many different animals, several of which I had never heard of before.
Ours has been taped and re-taped. Lass used to sleep with this one too.
2. Are you a boycotter?
No, not really. I did switch to buying Blue Diamond almond milk after learning that Silk (the other main brand of almond milk) is owned by a company that supports Monsanto. But, if Blue Diamond isn’t available, I’ll buy Silk.
On the other side of it, the day after the SCOTUS ruling about Hobby Lobby came out and everyone on my FB feed was in an uproar about how awful HL is, I went there and bought a bunch of stuff. It was stuff I needed anyway (most of it, though I did decide to buy some 4th of July decor I hadn’t planned on), but I made a pointed decision to purchase it from Hobby Lobby rather than JoAnn fabrics a few doors down, because I wanted to show them a little love in the midst of all the haters.
3. How do you feel about cheese?
Oh, I LOVE cheese. I think cheese is just wonderful. Unfortunately, I’m boycotting cheese right now.
I am someone who tends to gain a zillion pounds when I’m pregnant. I start gaining weight practically the very minute the second line turns pink. So, I gained (relatively) a lot of weight in the brief time that I was pregnant recently, and it really sucks to have to try to lose pregnancy weight without the blessing of a baby to snuggle while you do it. So, I need to lose the extra pounds ASAP. The fastest way I know of to do it is to get back to strict paleo eating, including no dairy.
Yeah. I love cheese.
4. How many pairs of sunglasses do you own?
I think three or four. I have a pair that I always keep in my car, and a few more here and there. I think I have two pairs in the cabinet by my back door, and maybe another pair somewhere that is scratched. . .
5. How long has it been since you went to the dentist?
About six months. I need to schedule appointments for myself and the girls, but I am being oppositional and putting it off. My dentist’s office always calls me an absurd amount of times to try to get me to schedule an appointment. I always tell them that I will call them when I am able to schedule it (usually they call me when I’m somewhere that I can’t look at my calendar or at a time when I’m in the middle of something else).
Even after I tell them that repeatedly, they still call me several times. I don’t like to be hounded, so now I’m just not scheduling it because I’m being ornery.
6. If you could visit any religious site in the world, where would you go?
The only religious site I have been to so far is the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help.
There are so many places I want to go. Guadalupe. Lourdes. Fatima. Rome and the Vatican. Cascia (that’s where Saint Rita is from).
If I could choose one place to go right now though, I would choose Jerusalem and the surrounding area. The Holy Land, I guess is a better was to say it. Someday. . .
To see more answers, go to Kendra’s link up.
Tomorrow is Miss’s first day of school outside our homeschool. I’m not sure if I’m going to bawl, or think of it as no big deal, since she’ll be back with me at home next week. I’ll let you know which way it goes.
