1. Hello my name is Esther and I am a Coke addict. Coca-Cola that is.
2. When I was four years old, my dog bit me. I shook my little finger at him and told him that I would never play with him again, and I didn’t. My dad had to get rid of him.
3. At about that age I also liked to eat dirt. I have since been told that when a person craves dirt they are iron deficient, which was probably true of me at the time.
4. Some of my favorite childhood memories include going camping with my dad. We’d make breakfast. Ride horses all day. Then come back to camp and cook supper.
5. I also spent hours on my swing where I pretended I was a queen and owned all the pickles in the land. Who cares about gold or jewels when you can have pickles!
6. Once I found a half eaten pickle on the play ground and I dared my friends to eat it. We split it three ways. Yum!
7. I had friends in the “chola” gang in junior high. They protected me when a girl wanted to beat me up.
9. I went to a boarding high school my freshman year. I cried myself to sleep every night for the first whole month, but didn’t tell my parents because I didn’t want to worry them.
10. I still sleep with a big stuffed teddy bear.
11. I was “Lordship” when “Lordship” was uncool. It’s possible a few of you might get this one!
12. I love to sing, but rarely listen to music.
13. Laughter is my best medicine. I love, love, love to laugh.
14. A daily goal of mine is to do or say something that’ll make Jason laugh. Then my day is complete.
15. I rarely get jokes. Something must be wrong with me. I want to laugh. I really do. I just don’t get it. In fact I told a joke for years because everyone laughed when I told it, but never really got it myself.
16. I hate house plants.
17. My favorite snack is potato chips with cayenne pepper and lime squeezed on them.
18. I am craft challenged.
19. I used to think homeschoolers were crazy. Now I know they are!
20. I don’t enjoy talking unless someone is REALLY listening. So if you think I’m a quiet person that probably says more about you than it does about me. 🙂
21. I would love to travel everywhere and maybe someday I’ll have that opportunity, but if I don’t I know that someday I’ll walk streets of gold…
22. Celebrations at my house growing up meant a big meal at Thanksgiving, a cake and your favoirte meal on birthdays, a big meal, tree and a present or two at Christmas. That’s it. I think maybe that’s the reason that I over do it, just a little!
23. My dad is my hero.
24. I think it’s so fun to hear people talking about me in Spanish when they don’t know I understand. The best is when they’re being rude and I wait till right before I walk away and say something in perfect Spanish. Priceless!
25. I said I’d never make a list like this. I also said I’d never start a blog…
I love your 25 things about you..Nice to meet you shall i say. When I was young I ate dirt to I think it’s a thing most kids did especially if they played outside allot. I did one about me you should read it it’s on The Devotion Cafe’ I wish more people would do this by this way we can know a little more personal things about one another I mean we do visit each other site and we can get a feel of what they are by reading their blogs but something about us we don’t put in blogs. It just might be catchy you know?
Great list. Love the pickle. I once found a huge clam in the ocean, and cooked it over an open fire and ate it. Everyone thought it would make me sick. It didn’t, and it was rather tasty!
Ok. Two question: How did Flashdance wake you up spiritually and how did you come to be fluent in Spanish? If the answers are long maybe you could devote a couple of blog posts to them. Cheers!
i had been at my current job for 4 months when they realized i knew spanish.. one day i was speaking with a customer in spanish and when i hung up my co-worker said “maryanne (what everyone calls me at work) you know spanish????” i give her a look like she’s insane and say “yes” and she said “i thought you were white i was going to start talking about you in spanish”!!!!!!!! what!!!!!
I love your list! My brother ate dirt too 🙂 I don’t do house plants either, I just don’t have a green thumb. Have a great weekend!
Oh my goodness- what a fun list! I’m dying to know the joke from #15!! What was it?! Tell!!Tell!
– The spanish? That is my total daydream- to jus wait till they say something about me, and then dazzle them! So glad someone gets to live out that fantasy of mine! haha!
Thanks for doing Mom Loop FOllow- you gave me a great laugh this afternoon!
I am so glad you started a blog – your notes and posts are some of my all-time favorites to read!!! (even though I am horrid about commenting regularly, sorry). I love your list 🙂
Oh I LOVE this. My favorite was the dog. My husband’s fried died in Sept so we adopted his 20 year old dog ONLY because I knew she’d die soon. She didn’t die soon enough. She bit me EVERYDAY! After a week and 6 days we had to put her to sleep.
Oh how I can relate to the jokes. I often don’t get them, either. I usually laugh anyway. Then when we walk away, I ask my husband to explain it to me.
Woops. My husband’s “friend” died. Not “fried”
# 26 you’re a riot
# 27 reading your blog is fun.
Stopping from Mom Loop! JDaniel loves pickles too. I know he would have loved to have you divide the found pickle four ways.
#15 is pretty darn funny. And I do the same as Mari mentioned above….when I don’t get the joke, I ask my husband late, he explains in painful detail and I usually, say ‘Oh, okay.’ And then he says, ‘You still don’t get it, do you?’ Haha. Nope.
Esther,
I love your blog. I totally get the spanish thing, I can do the same with portuguese.
Ronda
I laughed out loud at number 20! I’m the same way! 🙂
Thank you so much for linking to No Ordinary Blog Hop. I adore you! Thanks for the laugh, and I have to admit we have a lot in common. You have a beautiful family and I look forward to following your blog. {Glad you decided to blog anyway!}
I loved you 25 things list!!!
*hugs*
Stopping by from No Ordinary Blog Hop. I love random posts! It gives us a quick, entertaining way to learn more about you! Look forward to reading more posts.
Jessica
Hi Esther!
“Meeting” you for the first time via our No Ordinary Blog Hop and I’m so glad to have found your great blog! I love this list and I chuckled especially at # 15 and #20! Love your sense of humor! I have read some of your other past posts and have not been able to stop reading! I read your story on your recent miscarriage with Baby #5 and I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. Thank you for sharing such a personal and difficult trial in your life.
I look forward to reading future posts here and thanks for linking up to No Ordinary Blog Hop! I’m following you now 🙂
God bless,
Tracy at “A Slice of Smith Life”
http://www.asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com
PS: Your family is adorable and beautiful! 🙂
Thanks for the 25 list idea! I’m off to post mine now. 🙂 I was also curios as to how you learned to speak Spanish fluently? Blessings!~
Great list! #5 made me laugh. #20 made me think. I totally agree with #21 and know for sure that that will be the best trip ever. Thanks for encouraging me today. Many blessings, Esther!
Great post, you are FUNNY! Thanks for linking up to the NOBH. I am now following. I am a diet coke addict:)
Fun! I did mine and linked to you- fun!!! http://www.justaddwhine-andwine.com/2011/01/sunday-randomness.html
I’m right with you on the pickles! I never ate on off the ground though, I don’t think. My whole family loved pickles, and friends just knew if they served pickles when we came over, they’d have to put out a whole jar!
Oh, and please explain about the teddy bear? Um, your husbnad actually lets you keep a stuffed animal in bed with you guys? Or is the teddy bear your husband? =)
Thank you guys so much! I love reading your comments/reactions! I am working on a post to expound on #8. My parents are missionaries. I was born in Mexico!
I’m a pepsi addict. Nice to meet ya:) Found you via the NOBH! #17 ,really?? Never tried that one & now I’m a lil curious,lol!!
Liked this so much I went a made one of my own. My family loves pickles too. I have never eaten one off the ground but you have given me an idea to write the story of my brother eating a sugar cube off the ground… a green sugar cube.
First time stopping by – not my last.
Great list!
#1, #13, and #19 fit me perfectly. Except my name isn’t Esther! ;oP
My fave Coke is fountain Coke at a specific local McD’s. They mix it the best!
I generally *do* get jokes, even dry ones. That’s good, since I do love to laugh!
We have an elderly friend (89), he is quiet and unassuming. At first, it seems like he doesn’t laugh much or have a sense of humor. But, he *does* have a sense of humor and I love to make him smile or giggle! If I ever get a gut-busting laugh out of him, I will be set for life. Haha!
I am new to the blogging world and have been finding some other blogs that I absolutely love, and, yes, your’s is one of them. I love this list! You are now in my ‘followed blogs’ on my site and I look forward to hearing more from you!
love your list!
i completely agree…laughter is the best medicine well…that and chocolate. 😉
Great list! I can relate to #24. People always think they’re being secretive when they’re really not!
I love your blog! It is refreshing, funny and makes me smile! My oldest also speaks spanish quite well and laughs when others speaking it in public have no idea she knows what they are saying! I just might have to do 25 random things about me 🙂
loved reading this about you esther 🙂 i did a cuh-razy 100 things about me on my family blog a few years ago…http://mykidssayimsilly.blogspot.com/2007/10/100-things-about-me.html
Things from your list that we have in common…
1. I too am a Coca-cola addict!
2. I am crazy about pickles!
3. I was bullied as a child. (Thread on MckMama community)
4. I love to sing too, but I am ALWAYS listening to music! I am a music teacher!!!
5. I LOVE to laugh!
6. I hate house plants or maybe they hate me…they always die!!!
7. I love traveling! I’ve been to Mexico, Chile, Austria, Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, Czech Republic, South Korea.
8. I also speak Spanish. My husband is from Chile and I have studied it beginning in 7th grade! Just this morning I translated for an hour at my school for a Spanish speaking family. Funny story…We went on vacation to Disney World in October with our 9 month old daughter and these two Spanish speaking women were criticizing me for bringing a baby to Disney World because she wouldn’t remember anything and they can’t do anything except eat, sleep, and cry. I was too far away from them to comment back in Spanish but I couldn’t believe they were just totally criticizing me and I secretly thought it was funny that I KNEW what they were saying!
I love this! What part of Footloose did God use to bring you to Him? I don’t remember much about the movie. And I love knowing there’s another blogger whose craft challenged. I thought I was the only one out here!
You just made me laugh! I love your blog. I especially love the part at the end where you said that you would never do this but then you stated that you said you would never blog either. Funny!
I still sleep with my teddy bear too.
You’re the first UBP 12 Party post I’ve visited… aren’t you the early bird getting to the party first and hanging out in the kitchen with the hostess.
I love it.
That’s awesome about the Footloose movie. I watched that soooo many times.
My sister and I love Footloose! However, we were never as wild as the pastor’s daughter in the movie; we just loved Kevin Bacon! 😉
I really like 16, 17, and 24!! Thank you for visiting my site. PS… I love your name. She is one of my favorite women in the Bible. Happy #UBP12
I am craft challenged too! Dropping by from #UBP12! I hope you find the time to visit our blog.
Love your list and I am very glad to have found your blog!
Hello! What a great idea posting 25 things about you! I feel like instant friends! I agree about being a coca cola addict I just recently became one during my last pregnancy! I toast to you with a coke and hope you’ll stop by my blog and say hello! Happy UBP 12! Happy to meet you!
I love your 25 things! I can relate to so many of them! And your kids are super cute! 🙂 Looking forward to getting to know you and seeing more of your posts!
I love your post and definitely will be visiting your page often. You made me laugh and I agree laughter is so important. Your children are such cuties. I am looking forward to getting to know you.
Go UBP12!
Love your blog – have been there before! But that’s what parties are for, aren’t they – to meet people.
Greetings from Germany
Katja
lol…those are fun random facts! 🙂
Stopping by from the UBP…
I love your kids matching out fits adorable! My mom always used to do that for us too:) We have similar food tastes love diet coke and love love pickles lol
Love the list! How old are your kids (if you don’t mind sharing. I have 3 boys and 1 girl (opposite of you)! I have a minor in Spanish, but am not comfortable enough to use it, but a while ago, I was shoe shopping and so was a mom and her son, they were speaking Spanish and the boy just kept saying that he didn’t like the shoes, they were ugly and I started laughing and didn’t notice they were speaking Spanish until the mom looked at me with a puzzled look!
Hilarious! Queen of pickles, huh? That’s great, you dream whatever you want to dream! I admire someone who can write and be funny doing it. I try, but I’m just not a funny writer. Glad I found you on the UBP!
~ Ferly
Gifts We Use {to grow, love and serve}
I can attest to the fact that HSers are crazy and it is all good. 🙂 Been doing it for 17 or so years. 🙂 Swinging by on the UBP tour. Have fun!
Love your list – some of it made me laugh out loud! Love the pickles comment, brings back memories of my little sis and I… we were thrilled to each get a Costco jar of pickles for Christmas one year! Stopping by to say hello from UBP12 – come visit if you have a chance.
http://apalousemom.blogspot.com/2012/04/ultimate-blog-party-2012.html
the chonga gang made me spit out my water! so funny 🙂 i think i might love you… especially since i never get jokes either!!
Stopping by from the UBP and laughing hysterically at your list! I’m a Pepsi addict. I don’t like pickles and the thought of someone being a pickle queen cracks me up. I like houseplants but they tend to die in my very presence. It’s sad, really. Glad to get to know you a little and looking forward to reading more – and getting my daily ab workout in!
I too had tiny barely celebrated holidays as a kid and am now trying to overcompensate for them now that I have a kid!
Loved your list! Enjoy the UBP!
Here from the ultimate blog party. So you like food then whatever its for. Dirt is full of iron so you go girl.
Carolyn
Love your list, especially #20! Happy partying. 🙂
So glad to meet you! I am following along. Love your list. Can’t wait to read more of your blog. Would love for you to stop by and say hi.
Danielle @ Blissful and Domestic
http://www.blissfulanddomestic.com/2012/04/ultimate-blog-party-2012.html
Hi found you through UBP12! I love this list, especially #20 about being quiet… very good point! 🙂
Oh my goodness! I love love love your list! I can relate to quite a few, these are the ones that I related to the most;
1. Hello my name is Esther and I am a Coke addict. Coca-Cola that is.
I totally need an intervention!!
6. Once I found a half eaten pickle on the play ground and I dared my friends to eat it. We split it three ways. Yum!
I was always THAT girl that would do strange things that I got dared to do, even if it was completely unsanitary! 🙂
13. Laughter is my best medicine. I love, love, love to laugh.
I do not know where I would be without laughter! I love to laugh too!
Hope you are having a good time at the UBP 2012! Be sure to stop by and say hello. http://www.forgetthedognotthebaby.com
Thanks for commenting on my page! Did you see the new footloose? I did review for it, I really enjoyed it. http://www.mormonmediareviews.com/2011/10/footloose-2011-mormon-movie-review.html
I absolutely love your list! We have a lot in common and you’ve inspired me.
Really fun list AND you made me laugh.
I am hopping over from UBP. Happy party week.
Fondly,
Glenda
#84
Thanks for stopping by from the UBP! I am a Coke addict too. Don’t know what I’d do without it. Probably kill someone…
LOL! I love your list.
Thanks for visiting our blog during the party!!!!
Thanks for coming by Tales from the Motherhood and Confessions of a Former Child Actress. I love your list of facts about yourself! I loved that God used Footloose for your spiritual awakening. That is fantastic. Sorry about the dog bite. I am tight with my dad too – so I love that about you. I am totally craft challenged too. I think we have a lot in common. Except I don’t like any soda.
Nothing wrong with a good – and slightly dirty – pickle! we used to sneak into my grandma’s cold cellar and open the jars and steal more than a few. Imagine her surprise at family Christmas dinner.
I feel I must share a joke with you – don’t worry, even my kids get it:
knock knock
who’s there?
cow go
cow go who?
no, cow go moo!
Please say you’re laughing?
Hi from UBP! 🙂
I’m a homeschooling mama too!
Your post is fantastic! I laughed so much. Definitely adding your blog to my “to read” list bookmarks! 🙂
Look forward to reading more!
[Apparently, I am very excited today. Look at all those exclamation marks… hehe]
Bwhahaha the last one cracked me up. If someone had told me years ago that I would be blogging I would have looked at them as if they had grown a 3rd eye. I too love to laugh. Pickles are cool, I like pickles. Coming by from UBP..nice to meet ya
Hi from UBP12! Dirty pickles, huh? I suppose if you’re eating the dirt anyway, might as well have a pickle with it. 😉
Your blog is funny. Glad to have stumbled across it. Hope you’re enjoying your week with UBP,
Shala
I’d love to hear more about your boarding school experiences.
And, a world of pickles sounds super yummy to me (as long as they are dill).
Here’s my post: http://www.clevercompass.com/weblog/2012/4/15/ultimate-blog-party-2012.html
Stopping by from the UBP. From one crazy homeschooling Mama to another…rock on. 🙂
Oh my! I said I would never do a list.. haha! New follower from UBP!
Hi Esther! Your list was hilarious!!! I’m popping by from UBP2012 to say hi!
Cheers,
Char
http://1epicmom.com
Just dropping by from the UBP! I always enjoy reading your blog. Have a great week!
Hi, Esther! All hail the queen of pickles! (I am something of a pickle geek myself. In fact, this year I’ll be trying to make my own at home, out of my garden).
I wish I had thought of the list idea when I did MY post for UBP12. Yours is pretty cool, made me chuckle more than once.
Cheers!
Great list! I’ve always wanted to know how to understand other languages so that I, too, could eavesdrop when people thought I couldn’t understand.
We homeschool, also, but I never thought they were crazy, since I was homeschooled for 12 years. SO maybe that just makes me crazy from the age of six?
Stopping in from UBP, and so glad I did. That was fun, but I have to say I’m surprised that you don’t laugh at jokes because clearly, you are a very funny person. It’s really quite ironic. In any case, be blessed in all you do (with or without pickles).
I go overboard on Cmas and birthdays too. Maybe it’s because it wasnt that big of a deal when I was little.
and yes, us homeschoolers are a wee bit crazy. Will have to read your post.
Party hopping.
Hello! From one fellow coke addict to another! Enjoyed your list and your blog! Stopping by from blog party 2012
How fun. It’s great to meet you. I hope you’re having a terrific time at this year’s party!
Hi, I’m stopping in from UBP12 & looking forward to reading more 🙂
Grisel
http://www.livinglife2itsfullest.com/
Stopped by from the UBP – great list! I especially love that you were Queen of the PIckles. I have a daughter we nicknamed Pickle. (Her sister is Pepper.)
I kind of adore your name. Seriously. And I loved your 25 confessions. I can never come up with 25 things I think are interesting enough for people to know about me. Great job! #UBP12
Love your introductory post!!! I 2 LOVE Diet Coke, said i would NEVER start a blog and we plan to homeschool when our kiddos get old enough…never ever thought I’d say that! Funny how life changes huh? Happy to find you through the #UBP12!
What a fun blog! I love it. My favorite blogs are the ones that make me laugh…and are real. I’m here from UBP but will be returning on my own. !
First things first. I’m a Pepsi fan. I don’t know if we can be blog buddies because of it. 😛 I do love your blog header picture though.. Cute little kids! We will just have to see! Looking forward to reading more of your posts– this one was interesting, in a good way. 😀
(Found you through UBP 12)
Thanks so much for visiting our blog! Love your list #24 cracked me up!
Good Afternoon Esther, stopping by from the UBP12 to say hello. I loved reading the 25 random things about you. #24 is great!!! We have all been in that situation and glad to see how you reacted….Priceless. 🙂
-Emily, Timedog.com
I am still making my way through UBP blogs and enjoyed checking out your blog. I enjoyed reading your u25 things and seeing how God used Footloose to bring you to Himself. It has been wonderful to meet over Christian bloggers. Keep up the great work.
What a great list… I love #25. That’s terrible that you were bit by your dog… good thing your parents got rid of him.
I went to a boarding school for high school also! Where was your school located? Mine was in Oklahoma and I learned about it from my cousins who were also missionary kids from Mexico.
I need to make a list too!
Loved this! If I had been around for the pickle I would have probably asked to split it four ways! Love pickles. ;o) Love your listening point. It is so true. ;o) Love your blog, glad to have found it. Look forward to reading more!
Blessings
Laura
I love this list and it is inspiring me to do my own list, but of course I have many many years on you so maybe I would have to do 50 things :0
I really loved reading your list. Isn’t it funny the things that we remember? I would have definitely wagged my finger at the misbehaving doggie as well!
I found your blog through the Time Warp Wife Link Up!
New to your blog and I really like it!
LOVE this observation you made: “I don’t enjoy talking unless someone is REALLY listening. So if you think I’m a quiet person that probably says more about you than it does about me. :)” I can SO relate to that! Looking forward to reading more!
Hola!
Te escribo en español aprovechando que conoces el idioma! Quieo felicitarte por tu blog. Lo acabo de conocer buscando el tema de lps mitos acerca de homeschooling pero como Dios todo lo sabe permitiò que viera el tuyo y aprendiera otras cosas ademas de las que buscaba.
A veces uno lee testimonios de otras personas solo para saber que no estas solo en el bote y hoy fue uno de esos dias. Dios te bendiga mucho a ti y a tu familia.
Hi there! I totally missed the party but I’m here now. Loved your list 🙂 I had a pet bunny once when I was a kid (this might totally gross you out) and he bit me. It made me so mad!! (It might be valuable information to insert here that I grew up on a farm) I went and told my Dad that I wanted to bite him back, so Daddy killed it and cleaned it and we ate it for dinner. Take THAT mean, horrible bunny!! 🙂
This is a great list! I laughed! Maybe I should do a list. I don’t know that I would have 25 random things though!
So very you, Esther! I laughed then I cryed because I missed you so much.
I still have a stuffed alligator that I cuddle with!