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The genius behind a clever and funny blog that I have come to love recently bestowed upon me my first award - the You Make My Day award. I’m tickled.

First a word about Tonggu Momma (and with a name like that how can you not want to click on over and read all about her?). She is a funny (and I mean funny y’all) and loving mom to The Tongginator - a precocious and beautiful daughter she and her husband adopted from Tonggu County in China. The Tongginator also happens to have Sensory Processing Disorder, so she and Chee have a wee bit in common.

Tonggu Momma fretted about whom to bestow this award, wary of off-putting a potential awardee. Fear not with me - I maintain a strong “no position” position on participation in memes and/or awards. Inotherwords, I’m fickle.

The You Make My Day Award calls for the standard five pass-alongs to other bloggers.

However, I’m passing along to two. Two bloggers who regularly, and I mean this with all sincerity, Make My Day. And if they would just post more (ahem) they would make my day all that more often.

First, Christa at Hyperlexicon. Her Trouble series of this past week, where she shares some of the nuances of the challenges she and husband Chris have with Ben, has been like reading about my own daughter. Behaviorally (and in other ways too) these two kids are very much cut from the same cloth. Christa is a beautiful writer and a thoughtful and loving mother. Reading her insightful posts is like taking an ASD Parenting 201 class.

And, I wish to pass the award on to Drama Mama over at like a shark. There is not another blogger out there who makes me laugh and cry all in one post as often as Drama Mama does. She’s both painfully honest and brutally hilarious. Her self-awareness is to be admired by all. Reading about Miss M is inspiring like nothing else. Drama Mama is a Mom with a kid who is “making it.” It’s beautiful. She’s beautiful.

Thanks, Tonggu Momma, for thinking of me. And thanks to Drama Mama and Christa for writing such great blogs.

This is my 100th post. Yay me.

To commemorate, I wrote my six-word memoir.

Afraid to try, glad I did.

I’m not going to do any tagging, but I would love for all my friends (who haven’t already done so) to write their own six-word memoir. Please let me know when you do.

Emily at A life less ordinary tagged me for a recent meme. I’m honored because, while hers is a favorite of mine, I didn’t know she knew I existed read mine. This is good timing for me because I’m feeling tapped out right now and I’m not sure I could muster up the necessary energy to put together a thoughtful post. Also, I think Rooster Calls tagged me as well but somehow it left my brain the minute I finished reading my name.

Five things found in your bag:

This is embarrassing. I don’t carry much in my purse, which is actually a diaper bag. When I don’t have the kids with me I carry just my wallet because I don’t have a purse I like anymore. Someday… but even then I won’t carry much in it. But here is what’s inside at this writing.

1. Change of clothes for Chee
2. Wipes
3. Diaper for Ess
4. Assorted gum wrappers
5. OT progress report

Five favorite things found in your room:

Again, embarrassing. We moved nearly a year ago and I’ve never gotten around to getting my room together. Really sad. Someday. Bedrooms are on the bottom of the priority list, and the girls rooms come before ours. Honestly, I can’t name five favorite things in my room as I just don’t spend a lot of time there outside of sleeping. I can tell you five things that are IN my room though, some of them treasured even.

1. A trunk full of all my old journals. I was a faithful journal writer from 13 till about 31. I drifted away from it about a year or so after getting married. Not sure why. It’s entertaining to read the past ones.
2. A stack of parenting books with The No-Cry Potty Training Solution at the top of the heap.
3. A picture of Chee and my grandmother.
4. A picture of Chee when she was an infant.
5. My cat. (He’s pretty much there all the time.)

Five things you have always wanted to do:

1. Visit Australia
2. Own my own (larger than I already own) business
3. Have a rockin’ hot body that I got as a reward for being a workout goddess
4. Be a philanthropist
5. Win an Academy Award

Five things you are currently into:

1. Melissa & Doug (we’re about to start selling them in our store)
2. Vitamin Water
3. Weed Eating (I just bought a new Weed Eater/Edger combo deal for our shaggy, scraggly yard)
4. Mulch
5. Researching selling special needs ‘toys’ in our store

Five people you’d like to tag:

I think perhaps I have tagged some of these friends before but, hey, what can I say, my circle is not that big.

1. Of course my dear friend BeThisWay
2. Lisa at Ramblings of a Pseudointellectual
3. Learningwoman
4. asdmommy at What We Need
5. and, last but not least, my friend Ruth, who may not want her blog linked just yet, but she knows who she is.

The lovely Jordan at The Wonderwheel tagged me recently. I appreciate her thinking of me as I still feel so new to blogging world … even though it’s been 4 months already.
The rules of this tag:
A. The rules are posted at the beginning
B. Answer the questions about yourself
C. Tag 5 people, let them know in a comment on their blogs that they have been tagged.

What were you doing 10 yrs ago?
Let’s see. It was the middle of my twenties. I spent most of my 20s working at a great big consumer goods company in marketing after giving up my pursuit of a career in a journalism. Turned out to be a good move for me. Some of my most significant personal growth came during that career, as a result of that career. I excelled, which built my self-confidence, an area which needed some building.

Snacks I enjoy:

1. Newman-Oh’s
2. Triscuits and Laughing Cow Cheese
3. Tortilla chips and melted cheese (i.e. homemade nachos)
4. Chocolate Teddy Grahams

Five things on my to-do list today:
I don’t have a to-do list written out for today. Or any day actually unless I’ve really, really got a lot to do. Not writing a to-do list is one of my personal perks of being a stay-at-home mom. Here are some things I should do today though.

1. I need to get my tax stuff together for the accountant. I gave myself a March 1 deadline. I’m almost there…
2. Laundry (boring)
3. Mini-trip to the grocery store
4. Hang out in backyard with Chee and Ess
5. Purge some toys from the over-crowded playroom

Things I would do if I became a billionaire:
This is a topic on which I’ve not spent a fair amount of time pondering. The main thing I would do is take care of my family’s needs. Immediate and extended. All the same. Pay off houses (or buy them one), pay off debts, set up trust funds, ensure the future is taken care of. Once that is done, my husband I would start our own business. We have a small little weekend business now that we both love having. It’s something that whets our appetite to what it would be like to run something bigger. We have many ideas bouncing around in our heads. To have the funds to do it would be exciting. Oh, yeah, I think we’d travel the world too. Later. When our kids are older.

3 bad habits:

1. Lack of exercise
2. Too many Newman-Ohs
3. Too much blog-reading (I should pare down my reader, really, it’s absurd)

5 places I have lived:

1. Charleston, SC
2. Leavenworth, Kansas
3. Alexandria, Virginia
4. Springfield, Missouri
5. Cincinnati, Ohio

Jobs I have had:
I won’t cover all the jobs I’ve had, the list is long and varied. Here are some highlights.

• Fast food employee
• Assistant Brand Manager
• Account Manager
• Wedding Dress Sales Associate
• Stay-at-Home-Mom

Things people don’t know about me:

I rarely spend money on clothes for myself. It’s sad. I need new jeans. I’m buying myself new jeans for my birthday. I must.

I’m a pretty good Scrabble player. I average in the mid-3oos when playing and I have cracked 400 more than once. My high score is 465 and I’m extremely proud of that.

The name of my blog is the English translation of my maiden name.

I skydived once. It was awesome. I’m glad I did it before kids as I doubt I’d follow through now.

So there you have it. A fun little tag and now you know a wee bit more about little old me. Let me see if I can come up with five people to tag…

Of course my dear friend and faithful reader BeThisWay at Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest Of The Time I Know You

Lisa at Ramblings of Pseudo Intellectual (there is nothing Pseudo about Lisa’s Intellect)

Learningwoman’s Weblog - I’m the one doing the Learning when I read her blog.

Christa at Hyperlexicon as her Ben and my Chee are kindred spirits.

And Kristen at from here to there and back - a regular commenter and someone I would like to hearn more about.