1. If you are a blogger, what got you started? Have you ever made, or do you hope to make, money blogging? I started blogging after Isabelle’s accident. I had been doing pretty regular updates of her condition while we were away and she was in the hospital, when we got home there was less to update about and more names than I could keep up with so I just started blogging updates. It made life simpler. After a bit I started seeing fun memes and other things that didn’t really belong on her blog so I began my own blog. Several of my bloggy friends started doing posts to make money so I started on that blog, but google pr is not very nice and it drops your page rank down when it sees you have the coding for those posts… anyway, I got my own domain several months back and have still been doing the posts for several different sites. I am pretty happy with it, and make at least $500 a month with very little time and effort. The only drawback is that it turns off bloggy friends, but the true friends just look over those ads and keep reading the stuff I keep on top.

2. Are you a collector of anything? I collect all sorts of stuff… shoes, clothes, jewelry… j/j (kinda). I collect believe signs of all kinds and love them! I also have a collection of boyds bears and crosses that hang on the walls in the den.

Here are a few of the believe signs and bears… (since this picture, the shelf has been removed from that room and all the bears and believe signs relocated in the room)

3. Apple juice or orange juice? neither, bleck!

4. What are 3 of your best personality traits? I’m like a good dog… loyal, sweet and optimistic!

5. Name 1 thing you miss about being a kid. The lack of responsibility, oh I was a responsible child don’t get me wrong… but it was much easier being responsible for only myself and the kid stuff. Being a mother, wife, etc. carries a huge amount of responsibility that never lightens and never goes away.

6. What is usually your first thought when you wake up? My todo list starts running through my mind, thankful prayer to God for another day, and then I hit the ground… running!

7. Regarding material possessions: the more the merrier or less is best? Oh who am I kidding… the more the merrier :)… Seriously after purging Emelia’s room I’m moving over to the camp of “less is more.”

To participate in know & tell friday… visit heather and reese at kicking it in crazyville!

Have a safe & happy 4th of July!!!