I'm Versatile!

I was so excited when Katie at

http://tutusandtantrums.blogspot.com/

awarded me with the
Versatile Blogger award!


The Versatile Blogger award is awarded by your fellow bloggers and is a way
to recognize newer blogs that you really like.
And it's a great way to share those blogs with your own followers!

Thanks Katie! 

I have to share 7 things about myself
and then
I get to award the Versatile Blogger award to 7 of my fave and growing blogs!




So 7 fun things about me:

1. I do not eat meat off of a bone.

2. I do not eat meat at mexican restaurants.

3. I do not eat mushrooms. Pee Wee Herman used to make snacks on his show. One time he pretended to eat a poisonous mushroom. Because of this episode, I get nervous that if I eat a mushroom, it may be poisonous.

4. By the time I graduated from high school I had attended 13 different schools.

5. When I am folding laundry, I have to get all the socks out first. If I start to fold a shirt and see a sock, I immediately put the shirt down and get the sock out. Seriously.

6. I interned as a probation officer for a short time just out of college. When a giant man reached across my desk to (likely) put his hands around my neck when I told him he was to be drug tested, I never went back.

7. I am VERY organized at work to the point that people think I have OCD. I am the EXACT opposite at home. My house is not organized nor clean.
(Well, maybe for an hour after the cleaning people come.)

  

I am awarding the Versatile blogger award to the following great blogs:

1. Katie at http://www.tutusandtantrums.blogspot.com/

2. Keisha at http://morrismommy.blogspot.com/

3. Kasey at http://dieps.blogspot.com/

 4. Erica at  http://teamt2e2.blogspot.com/
5. Jamie at http://jamiegoodwin.wordpress.com/
6. Jaime at http://twoboysandachinadoll.shutterfly.com/
7. and Sandi at http://sunshineandsmilesphotography.blogspot.com/ 
(Although Sandi's isn't an ongoing blog, she is an amazing
photographer and I love seeing her work!) 

Make sure that you pass this on to blogs that you love :) 

 

Glasses

"Keeli, I just wanted to let you know that Brylee Kate failed her vision screening again. You may just want to follow up with an eye doctor." This was an email I received from the guidance counselor, also a good friend, about Brylee Kate's screening at school. The screening that Brylee Kate requested, not me. The screening that along with my signature giving permission, I wrote "Brylee Kate is requesting this, not her mother." I wish I could say I made that up, but I am not. I actually put something in writing that will haunt me forever.

With some lingering skepticism, I scheduled the appointment.

Throughout the appointment Brylee Kate was asked to read various things. I nearly had a heart attack when giant five foot letters (slight exaggeration) were displayed on the board and she read every letter except the letter displayed. It took every bit of willpower not to correct her; explain to the doctor that in fact she is reading above grade level and must be making it up; or even sign the letters to her, prompting the correct response.

Less than a week after the appointment we went to pick up her new glasses. As we are driving away from the eye doctor, Brylee Kate is grinning from ear to ear pointing out several things she had "never seen before".