Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. February 22nd is National Be Humble Day...what makes you proud? What keeps you humble?

This might be my roots showing through but, I don't care for the word proud. I would rather replace it with pleased, happy, and other similar words. At this point in my life our children make me feel pleased, blessed, and happy. On the flip side they have this way of keeping us humble as well.

2. Where is the catch-all (aka dumping ground) in your house?

The table in our dining room. We never eat at that table unless we have visitors so it is often the recipient of all sorts of different things. I try to have it cleared off before we go to bed because nothing zaps my energy as much as seeing something cluttered when I get up in the morning.

3. Do you make it a point to visit State/National Parks when you travel or even in your own hometown? What's your favorite?

There is a local State Park that we like to visit. It has a lake with a lovely sandy beach that's  surrounded by majestic hemlock trees.

When we travel we enjoy seeking out Parks and a lot of the lesser known places to explore that aren't filled with the usual tourist overload. One of our favorites is Bandelier in New Mexico.

4. How would you define honor?

I could spend a lot of time on this answer but I'll condense it to say. For me to honor someone I don't want to say or do anything that will hurt their reputation.

5. Angel's food or Devil's food-which cake do you prefer?

I'm not really fond of Angel Food cake. Homemade is certainly better than any store bought I have ever tasted but even so it reminds me of eating a sweetened sponge.  I much prefer a yummy chocolate cake.

6. What's the most recent road trip you've taken? Where did you go and how many hours did you spend in the car? Do you like to zoom to your destination without stopping or leisurely wind your way there with stops along the way? What is your car snack of choice?

If we're going on vacation we enjoy a leisurely pace and stopping at anything that catches our interest along the way as well as having all our meals at restaurants. If it's not vacation we set our eyes on our goal and don't waver from it until we get there.

Our latest road trip was almost a year ago and it wasn't a vacation. It was a little over 900 mile, it took us 14 hours, and we only stopped three times to fuel up. We enjoyed a variety of snacks to munch on rather than stopping to eat. Pretzels, chips, baby carrots, bananas, and what ever else we happened to think would be great to snack on when we make our last minute grocery stop the evening before we left.

7. Recent headlines told how a preschool child in NC had their packed lunch from home taken away and a school lunch substituted by a school inspector who deemed the homemade lunch unhealthy. Reportedly the parent was then billed for the school lunch (chicken nugget meal) although an update to the story says the parent was not billed. The inspector was conducting a routine inspection of the classroom-he/she was not there solely to peek in the lunchboxes. The packed lunch contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, an apple juice box, a bag of chips, and a banana.  Your thoughts?

Let's just say, I'm very glad that didn't happen to our children. I would not have been happy about it!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Recently Sailor was sitting on a chair in the kitchen, wearing his baseball cap which reminded me of a weird warning that we used to hear while growing up. That if a boy wears a hat inside a house he will become bald later. We still think it's respectful not to wear a hat indoors but don't believe that wearing one will cause baldness.