tag, you're it!

My friend, Emily, tagged me on her blog for a meme, so I'll try to follow through. (A meme is like a question or a theme to post about, and then you "tag" other bloggers to do the same thing.) This one asks you to list 6 habits of yours...

1) A habit I've gotten into since being a stay at home mom is to watch "Good Morning America" in the mornings. When my little one wakes up, I get up too, bring her downstairs, get her a cup of milk, which she inhales, and turn on Good Morning America. She sits on my lap drinking her milk and waking up, while I wake up watching the news. She then scrambles down to the floor and starts her day of playing and bringing me books with Good Morning America on in the background. We usually go eat breakfast and go back upstairs to get dressed while it's on, so it's not like I sit on the couch for two hours to watch it, but it's always on and I'm in and out, getting caught up on my news that way.

2) A VERY bad habit I have is to get on the computer a bazillion times a day. When we just had the desktop it was easier to avoid because it's upstairs in an extra bedroom, and I wasn't up there very often, but now that I have a laptop and it's readily available, I get on it way too much. It's nothing important....email, reading blogs, checking what good bargain toys I can find on Craig's List, or other equally unimportant tasks. Once I put my laptop away for a week and found I got a lot more done that week--and I know I should probably just keep it put away during the day, but I can't bring myself to do it. Now R has discovered it, too. Whenever I open it up, she wants to crawl in my lap and see the various sites I have bookmarked for her. She likes the Noggin.com site, where she watches music videos on the "Jack's Big Music Show" site. She especially loves Laurie Berkner's songs. Since she's discovered these, I've gotten several of Laurie Berkner's CDs out of the library and we listen to them in the car all of the time. They keep her much happier while we're out and about. She also likes to watch that little video clip I put on here a few weeks ago with her picture on it, participating in various "adventures." She asks to watch that over and over! Another site is an alphabet site where they say the letter and an animal that starts with that letter. My little girl is already a tech junkie and she's not even two years old....

3) When I put R in her high chair to eat breakfast, lunch, or a snack, I try and get some task done in the kitchen. Usually it's emptying or filling the dishwasher. In the afternoon when she has a snack I'm always getting something prepared for dinner. It's the only way I can make sure she's not going to be hanging on my legs while I'm busy.

4) Hmmm...I'm having trouble coming up with habits. I guess I'm not a creature of habit. Here's one: At 4:00 every day I start making dinner. My husband gets home around 4:45 and he likes to eat then. Otherwise, he snacks and then isn't hungry for dinner, so over the years that we've been married dinner has become earlier and earlier. We joke that we're just like the older couples who go to Bob Evans at 4:00 for dinner. Often someone will call around 5:30 or so and ask, "I'm not interrupting your dinner, am I?" and I've just finished up cleaning up the dinner dishes!! When we go to dinner with someone else or go visit someone, we're always starving by the time we have dinner around 6:00....a more "normal" dinner time!

5) I guess the TV shows we watch are habits....though right now now many of our shows aren't on. We watch Lost, which doesn't start until February, The Amazing Race, which starts in a few weeks, and recently have become hooked on 24, through watching them on DVD. We've been reserving them at the library, but they only give you 5 days to watch them. A whole season (24 episodes) in 5 days?!?! We actually did it once....it was insane. We were watching episodes non stop and got so sick of it that we were so relieved when we finished. That show is so intense. Last night we finished season 3. That one we were able to renew several times because no one else was waiting for it, so it was much more relaxing to watch an episode or two in the evenings (well, relaxing isn't really the right word for such an "on the edge of your seat" show, but you get what I mean). I've recently started watching Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, but my husband doesn't like them, so I don't watch them every week.

6) At 7:00 every night we take R up to take a bath. Her bedtime has become a habit, which has been so helpful in making sure she goes to bed easily. She goes to bed so well, without fussing, and I'm so thankful.

So there you go...maybe you know me a little better now. I'm supposed to tag people to do this, too, but I won't. If you read this and want to do it on your blog, great. If not, don't worry about it.