Asked and answered (Part I)

Tomorrow morning we are leaving for an overnight trip to Savannah. I am very, very much looking forward to it! I will be back on-line sometime Saturday. (with photos, of course!)

So I loved these questions that ya’ll asked. Thank you for such thoughtful and interesting ones. I will post some answers now and the rest will go up tomorrow. And if you have a question pose it here and I will do a part III. Here we go:

Alison asks:

1) What would WW’s name have been if he was a she? Were you considering any other boy names?

Like many of you I have always had a name at the ready for a child. Of course in my mind I was always going to have a daughter and so I only had the one name. Sure I pondered many girl names, but I always, always came back to the one. If/when I ever have a daughter it will be her name. I won’t type it out but it is the name of my Great-Grandmother. Here is someone that also had this name:

As far as other boy names…well there was a moment that I considered naming W after my Grandfather but I just couldn’t do it. Maybe if I have another son I will be ready, but right now I only have room for one person to have that name.

If he weighed over a certain weight he would have been named Bartholomew. True story.

I like family names a lot and even have a little note paper where I jotted names down throughout the years of my dreaming and hoping. There are some crazy names in my family- and I do mean crazy- somewhere in my family tree there was a man named Happy Riddle S____.

2) How many states have you visited? Are there any you haven’t been to but wish to see?

The above map shows in red all of the states that I have visited. You can make your own here. Um…looks like I am clearly missing a big chunk of the nation. heh.

I would love to visit Maine, New Hampshire, Washington, Montana.

And in a few weeks I get to punch my Iowa ticket!

3) Are you amazed with the speed and voracity that such a little man has captured your heart?

It has been shocking. I mean up until the moment I saw him everything I knew about love, and my capacity to feel it, has been in theory or hypothetical. Now I see the world so so differently.

Kristin asks:

Is there anything you’ve always dreamed of doing (traveling, becoming a rocket scientist, whatever)?

There is actually a career path that I wish I had pursued. I wish I had studied puppeteering. I absolutely feel like I missed a bit of a calling to go into children’s television. I mean you guys think that I have a bit of a love affair with all things muppet but it goes deeper than that. I used to collect puppets and put on shows and I had a clear vision of doing that as a career.

And then, around the 7th grade, I decided that it just wouldn’t be a realistic career path and decided to study acting instead. You know, because becoming a stage star was THAT much more attainable for me. bwha ha ha!

Shari asks:

What type of camera do you shoot with?

Canon digital rebel EOS 6.3 megapixel

What editing program do you use?

Photoshop Elements 3. I keep thinking that one day I will upgrade to the newer versions, but really this program does almost everything I need. It is also the program that I use to put together headers.

Eva asks:

Where do you get your news?

CNN. If the tv is on during the day it is usually on the main CNN station. When I come home after running errands or visiting GM the first thing I do (after attending to W’s immediate needs) is turn on CNN. I just have this stupid fear that I have to check that the world is still here and didn’t go away while I was off doing other things.

But I also am absolutely guilty of using The Daily Show as my secondary news source.

What do you buy most often at the grocery store?

I really had to stop and think about this. I guess eggs? Or cheerios? Um. Bread? Yeah!! That’s it. Bread.

Care asks:

What book character would you totally love to be for a week?

I would love to be Anne of Green Gables. But I need to think about what week of her life I would want to live…But seriously. Anne. All the way. Mmmmmmm. Gilbert.

Favorite summer recipe?

This is easy! Sweet tea. Personally I find this recipe a bit too sweet. (ok, it is a LOT too sweet) but it is how tea has been made in my family for decades and so it is how I make it for Mother.

You can find a photo recipe post on how to make REAL sweet tea here.

Ever thought about opening a shop on etsy or ebay and selling photos?

For about two weeks I had a little shop on cafepress, but I didn’t put a lot of thought into it. And honestly I don’t feel like the things I take photos of daily would generate any interest outside of my friends and family. But it is a life goal to take some classes in digital photography so that I can expand my scope.

Check back tomorrow for Part II.

Bonus W photo of today’s visit with GM:

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