Ode to Ashley (not a poem, just a response)

I thought I'd take care of a little request tonight and I will preface this by saying that if it weren't for the fact that Ashley is my very very very good friend and she asked me...no, more like commanded me....to answer the questions to this "tag" thing that seems to me very similar to the chain emails that I promptly erase the moment I find them in my inbox, then I would not be responding to her "tag" game. But since Ashley is my very very very good friend I will answer her tag game and then I will impose this game on some of my unwitting friends. So here it is..........

Tag you're it!...here are the rules: Post these rules on your blog. Answer these 15 questions about yourself on your blog. List 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3 Current Obsessions/Collections and 3 Random/Surprising facts. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Joys: 1. The random hugs from my kids when for no particular reason they wrap their arms around me and tell me that they love me then they give me one those cute little kisses and then they go happily on their way. 2. Spending a few hours with my husband when he's not feeling stressed out from work and the kids are really happy and for just a moment the cosmos seem aligned and everything is perfect. 3. Thinking back on all the wonderful memories from my life so far.....

Fears: I don't have any, I'm WONDER WOMAN! (Well, actually I am scared of Ashley if I don't do this little tag thing and Brooke if I don't blog daily, or at least relatively often, as in more frequently than I have been this past week or so because Brooke is one tough woman and Ash, well, she instills fear in all who cross her.)

Goals: 1.To find something happy about each and every day because sometimes lately I feel a little sad, but then I remember those little joys in life, and really I want to always have a cheery disposition. 2. To let William know that I have found something happy and great about each and every day because he doesn't like it if I'm sad or stressed or overwhelmed, and he really likes it when I have a cheery disposition. 3. To find some way to help Luke actually learn how to sleep even though I don't really think he will learn how to do this until he is a teenager when they don't really know how to wake up, but until that time, even though I am still sleep deprived because of my two year old, I am going to try have a cheery disposition.

Obsessions/Collections: 1.The gym; an obsession..because someday I might actually stop eating cookies and peach dream dessert and brownies and ice cream and then, because of this little gym obsession, of mine I might really lose those last baby pounds but until I stop eating all those yummy things the gym is keeping me from putting the baby weight back on. 2. Diet Coke cans...a collection, in my recycle bin; maybe that's actually an obsession. 3. Garden gnomes...an obsession that has turned into a collection because I really wanted a gnome in my garden even though they are really kitschy and then Brenda and Ashley filled my backyard with gnomes and now every time I'm out back in the garden I move them around and think of how much I love my kitschy little guys and then I realize they are, in fact, one of those little joys in my life right now.

Random tidbits: 1. I love whole wheat toast with a little slice of cheddar cheese very late at night (another reason I need to go to the gym). 2. I don't like to wear red because it makes me feel like I'm yelling to the world "hello world, here I am" and even though sometimes I might want to yell to the world and make it notice me I don't want the color I'm wearing being the thing that is yelling, but I do like to wear color even though my mother thinks I really only like to wear black, which I do like, but I also like turquoise. 3. I love that my first date with William was to a museum...and museums are places he likes visiting almost as much as me.

So now I have to tag a couple of you.......Brooke, Deb, Jessica, Susan and Laurie have fun, or don't but you should probably feel just as obliged to do this as I did because I might stop reading your blogs otherwise.