I wrote one of these a few years ago… but it was a bit out of date… so here we go again

1. I was born in Verdun (Montreal)
2. I was raised in Nelson BC
3. I want to go back there to live and raise my family
4. I was raised by my mom
5. My mom has been married twice
6. My mom had been widowed twice
7. My dad is still alive
8. My first step dad was gay and died of aids in 97
9. My second step dad died of liver cancer/cirrhosis in 2004
10. I met my bio dad when I was 9
11. I am now starting to get closer to him
12. I am an only child
13. I have both a step-brother and a half brother whom I don’t see or talk to
14. I love being a mama
15. I have three great boys
16. I love being a stay-at-home mom
17. I live about an hour out of Montreal
18. I wish I had more of a community in my area
19. I would love to live on a property with another family or two
20. I met Simon through a BBS
21. I was married at 21
22. Next May (2008) will be our 10 year anniversary
23. I wore ‘Docs’ under my wedding dress
24. We got married at Montreal City Hall
25. We are both Atheists
26. I have never believed in a religion or a god
27. I have a degree in religion
28. I have always wanted kids
29. I would like another child
30. I have always known that I would homeschool
31. On our first date I told Simon that if I had kids I would homeschool
32. We are unschoolers
33. I find Quebec to be a very unfriendly place for homeschooling
34. I advocate Natural parenting and living
35. I don’t wear make-up
36. I don’t use products in my hair
37. I have two tattoo’s that I got when I was 16
38. I have a tongue stud
39. I like seeing women and men with grey hair, I hate dyed hair
40. I dyed my hair red one time at the end of pregnancy with Xavier
41. We co-sleep most of the night
42. I love breastfeeding
43. I have “triandem” nursed
44. Xavier weaned himself just before his fifth birthday
45. I am Tandem nursing Colin and Khéna (4 and 2)
46. I was a peer-to-peer Breastfeeding Counsellor
47. I quit when I was told that I should not have given advice on solids to a mom in the park on my own time because she knew I was a counsellor
48. I get angry when people choose not to breastfeed
49. I feel sorry for kids that are not breasted
50. I was not breastfed
51. I was sick often as a child
52. I avoid doctors now
53. I have asthma but I have not had many problems the last few years
54. Being around smokers triggers my asthma
55. Perfumes do the same
56. I am very sensitive to scents
57. I get seriously offended if someone smokes close to me or my kids
58. Almost all of my Family and Simon’s family are smokers
59. We don’t go to their homes because of it
60. I also get offended if people wear shoes in my house
61. I hate wearing socks and shoes
62. My first birth was a hospital birth
63. I was transferred from the birthing center for failure to progress (49 hours in all)
64. I refused the C-Section the Doctors were trying to scare me into
65. I have had two back labours with posterior babies
66. My second birth was a birth center birth
67. I haemorrhaged after giving birth to Colin because of a managed 3rd stage
68. I had an Unassisted Pregnancy with Khéna
69. I had an Unassisted water birth with Khéna
70. I will UP/UC again
71. I loved birthing in water
72. I find people reactions to UC a bit funny sometimes
73. We don’t do “well baby visits”
74. We don’t vaccinate
75. I love to cook
76. I hate bland food
77. I make most of our food “from scratch”
78. I bake bread every few days
79. We avoid artificial colouring and flavours for allergy and behaviour issues
80. I love Sushi and make it as often as I can
81. Most of the cookbooks in my home are Vegan
82. I am not a Vegetarian
83. I don’t eat enough vegetables
84. We never did “baby foods”
85. I am trying to lose weight
86. I am lazy
87. I lost 50 pounds with weight watchers before I got pregnant with Xavier
88. I try to swim 3 times a week… but usually only go twice
89. I am addicted to the internet
90. I write many blog posts in my head in the shower
91. I have three domains, this one for my blog, Red Threads for my shop, and Greener Pastures which is message board for likeminded non-mainstream parents
92. My best friend lives across the country (we met on the internet )
93. I used the name “paxye” for the first e-mail account that I made about 12 years ago. A hotmail account that I still have and use for junk and MSN.
94. I love to sew
95. I hate patterns
96. My favourite colours are red and Orange
97. I love taking pictures
98. I like to wash dishes but hate drying them and putting them away
99. I listen to talk radio
100. I go to bed way too late every night