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April 2014 Moms
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GTKY
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Since this board is just getting going, let's do another GTKY....
Where are you from?
Where are you currently living?
What do you do for a job?
Do you have any pets?
What do you like to do for fun?
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews?
What is your favorite season and why?
What is your favorite holiday?
Where are you from?
Where are you currently living?
What do you do for a job?
Do you have any pets?
What do you like to do for fun?
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews?
What is your favorite season and why?
What is your favorite holiday?
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Re: GTKY
Where are you currently living? Wisconsin
What do you do for a job? Kindergarten Teacher
Do you have any pets? 1 cat (hope to get a dog someday)
What do you like to do for fun? game nights with friends, play volleyball
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Huge NFL fan (DH got me into fantasy football when we first started dating). Love the Green Bay Packers!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have 2 older brothers (both married). I have 3 nephews and 1 niece
What is your favorite season and why? Summer (I'm a teacher)
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas (I love that its such a festive time of year- lots of fun things going on both with family and at school)
BFP #2: 7/24/13, MC: 8/28/13 @8weeks, 3days
Where are you currently living? Indiana
What do you do for a job? Adult Nurse Practitioner
Do you have any pets? one cat and a dog
What do you like to do for fun? spend time with friends, go out to eat
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Not really any faves.
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 2 older brothers; 2 nieces and 3 nephews
What is your favorite season and why? Summer! I love the warm weather and being outside.
What is your favorite holiday? July 4, it's my Mom's and her two brother's bday so we have a big get together
Where are you currently living? Macon, GA
What do you do for a job? Chemist
Do you have any pets? A sweet yorkie (pic in my siggy)
What do you like to do for fun? Play on the lake (boating, jetski, wakeboard, etc), read, anything outside
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? HUGE Georgia Bulldogs fan! Also love our Atlanta Braves
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have two older sisters. They gave me 3 wonderful nephews (19, 15, 9) and a beautiful niece (12).
What is your favorite season and why? Summer! I'm definitely a lake/sun girl
What is your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving. The whole family gets together but there is no stress of who wants what/gifts/ etc.
William Lawrence 5.18.11
#2 Due 4.4.14
Where are you currently living? Upstate, South Carolina
What do you do for a job? Middle School Band Director
Do you have any pets? Yes- 1 longhaired dachshund (8 years old)
What do you like to do for fun? photography, be with my family
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Yes, South Carolina Gamecocks!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? One 23 year old sister- no nieces/ nephews
What is your favorite season and why? Summer! I love the time off with my family.
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas! I'm already planning!!
Where are you currently living? Just outside Tampa, FL
What do you do for a job? I am a SAHM, but also a full time student. I am doing an elementary internship in August, and will graduate in December.
Do you have any pets? A dog (mutt) and two fat cats.
What do you like to do for fun? SHOP, travel, anything water related
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Not really
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 2 sisters and 1 brother. I have a 2 year old niece and a 5 week old nephew
What is your favorite season and why? winter...its the only season that is not 100 degrees here
What is your favorite holiday? christmas
Where are you currently living? Good Ole' Nebraska.
What do you do for a job? I am a SAHM
Do you have any pets? Yes, we have 2 Yorkies
What do you like to do for fun? Read, cook, and spend lots of time outside when the weather is not extreme hot, or extreme cold.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? College football (Huskers) and NFL (Steelers)
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have 2 brothers, and 1 nephew. But I also have a niece and nephew from DH's side.
What is your favorite season and why? Fall, because I love cool weather, jeans and sweaters and boots, the leaves changing color, cause of Halloween, and cause DD was born in the fall!
What is your favorite holiday? Halloween! Christmas is a close second though!
Southern CA
Where are you currently living?
Southern CA
What do you do for a job?
SAHM
Do you have any pets?
Salt water fish tank (if that counts!)
What do you like to do for fun?
Read, watch movies, wine taste, eat, travel, hike, shop, Disneyland.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
No, but I do go to ducks hockey games and a laker game once in a awhile with H.
Do you have any siblings? 3 bros
Nieces/nephews? No
What is your favorite season and why?
Each is appealing in its own way, but I love when summer ends and I can start decorating the house for autumn/Halloween
What is your favorite holiday?
4th of july
Where are you currently living? Nairobi, Kenya
What do you do for a job? Stay at home mom
Do you have any pets? Nope. But, we will be acquiring a cute little fish next week (birthday present for my soon to be 2 year old son)
What do you like to do for fun? Grocery shop? Ha. I seriously don't know anymore. Life is so different here. I love watching movies and exploring the city with my family.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? I love the Colts. I love sports that aren't so popular - like I could watch swimming meets forever.
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 7 siblings. No nieces or nephews.
What is your favorite season and why? Fall! I love everything pumpkin, sweaters, jeans, orchards, picking apples....and it's my birthday season.
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas.
Where are you currently living? Appleton, WI
What do you do for a job? I am a library assistant
Do you have any pets? Yes, we have four cats - Agatha, Hitchcock, Max, and Izzy
What do you like to do for fun? I read and cross stitch
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Not really a sports fan, but being from Wisconsin I have to love the Brewers
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have an older sister and a younger brother. I have two nephews, ages 9 and 2-1/2
What is your favorite season and why? I love fall because it is still nice enough to be outside but it is cool and crisp. I'm not a fan of hot weather, good thing I live in Wisconsin.
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas, hands down. I like to listen to Christmas music throughout the year!
Where are you currently living? Same small town.
What do you do for a job? I am currently a SAHM but DH is a rancher so there's a lot of work for the both of us.
Do you have any pets? 2 beautiful black labs.
What do you like to do for fun? Love to play volleyball and shoot skeet.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Baseball- Yankees
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 2 little sisters, no nieces or nephews.
What is your favorite season and why? Winter! Winter! Winter! Love the cold!!
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas...I love the music and everything. Love all the family together, everything.
April '14 Siggy Challenge:
Where are you from? Minnesota
Where are you currently living? Minnesota
What do you do for a job? Demolition project manager and estimator
Do you have any pets? Yes 1 dog
What do you like to do for fun? Shopping, playing with DD, crafts, trying new recipes, watching movies with DH
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Vikings even though they suck
Do you have any siblings? Yes, 2 sisters and 1 brother
Nieces/nephews? 2 nieces and 1 nephew (seems like a trend, lol)
What is your favorite season and why? Fall, I love the cool, fresh air, the leaves changing colors and the fashion!
What is your favorite holiday: Christmas! I cant wait for it this year!
Where are you currently living? Chicagoland
What do you do for a job? Finance office at a college
Do you have any pets? 2 cats and a dog
What do you like to do for fun? Relax, play with my daughter. I used to go to more concerts and things like that but since we had our first I haven't been to one.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Yep, most of the Chicago teams. Bears, Cubs, Blackhawks.
Do you have any siblings? Yes Nieces/nephews? 3 nephews and 1 neice. Only 1 nephew I get to see regularly though.
What is your favorite season and why? Summer! I love the heat.
What is your favorite holiday? Probably Thanksgiving, but especially pregnant Thanksgiving. I had an April baby last time and Thanksgiving came at that perfect time where I wasn't nauseous anymore, but wasn't so big that I couldn't eat a lot at a time. You US ladies are in for something wonderful right around the halfway point.
Where are you currently living? Pittsburgh Suburbs
What do you do for a job? IT Executive
Do you have any pets? 1 black lab (he's 12!)
What do you like to do for fun? Cooking, Craft Projects, Boating on our pontoon, (Drink craft beer when not pregnant!)
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Go Steelers!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 1 brother. 3 nephews and 1 baby niece (2 days old)
What is your favorite season and why? Autumn, because the food is great.
What is your favorite holiday? Halloween! Candy! Costumes!
Chicago suburbs
Where are you currently living?
Milwaukee, WI
What do you do for a job?
SAHM, professional singer, former prospect researcher for non-profit and former middle school music teacher.
Do you have any pets?
Sort of. I have a parrot that lives with my parents.
What do you like to do for fun?
I sing for a choir in Milwaukee, knitting/sewing/crochet, playing with my DD
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
Nope not into sports at all
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews?
3 siblings, 3 nephews
What is your favorite season and why?
I love fall! It's cool enough for sweaters and I love the colors and smells.
What is your favorite holiday?
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Where are you currently living? Even further Upstate New York
What do you do for a job? Foster care caseworker
Do you have any pets? 4 kitties that have been fighting to sit on my lap more than usual lately!
What do you like to do for fun? DH and I love festivals. Renaissance Faires, Faerie Festivals, beer and wine festivals... (guess that last one is off the list for a while!)
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Nah.
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? Two younger siblings. Tons of nieces and nephews on my husband's side. No little ones on my side - I'll be having the first baby in the family in a very long time.
What is your favorite season and why? I love them all! But maybe with a slight preference for summer since we do lots more fun stuff then.
What is your favorite holiday? Halloween! I love carving pumpkins and decorating.
Northwest Washington
Where are you currently living?
Northwest Washington
What do you do for a job?
I'm a CNA at an assisted living.
Do you have any pets?
2 doxies, both 3 years old
What do you like to do for fun?
I love reading, and writing. I like to be out with my friends.
Do you have any sibling? 4 brothers, 5 step brothers, 1 sister, and 2 step sisters.
Nieces/nephews? 6 nephews, 8 nieces.
What's your favorites season and why? I love fall, the changing colors, the smells. It's simply beautiful. Fall is also when I met my hubby.
What is your favorite holiday? My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. It's one of the few times my entire family gets together, and somehow I always end up coming. I also love Halloween...it's a pretty big affair in my family.
Where are you currently living? Long Island
What do you do for a job? Special Education 6th grade teacher
Do you have any pets? Yes, an Old English Sheep Dog named Murphy!
What do you like to do for fun? sing and play piano
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Yes, Islander's and the Jets
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have one younger sister. No Nieces and Nephews yet.
What is your favorite season and why? Autumn. I love the foliage, baking, and watching football while making a nice pot of meat sauce.
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
So excited to get to know you ladies! Wishing you all the best!
Austin
Where are you currently living?
Austin
What do you do for a job?
Customer Service
Do you have any pets?
2 dogs
What do you like to do for fun?
Read, watch movies
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
Yes Football! Go Cowboys
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews?
Nope
What is your favorite season and why?
Summer!
What is your favorite holiday?
St paddy day
1st BFP - 3/2012 - EDD 11/2012 - Loss 4/2012
2nd BFP - 3/2013 - EDD 11/2013 - Loss 4/2013
3rd BFP - 7/2013 - EDD 4/2014 - Loss 7/2013
4th BFP - 11/2013 - EDD 7/2014
My Furry Baby!
Where are you currently living? Liverpool UK
What do you do for a job?
Nurse in gp surgery
Do you have any pets?
A mini lop bunny
What do you like to do for fun? Read, tv or knitting
Are you a sports fan?
Hate sports
Do you have any siblings?
3 sisters 1 brother
12 nieces/nephews and 2 great nephews and a great Neice
What is your favorite season and why? Summer! I'm definitely a sun girl
What is your favorite holiday? Any time I get to spend time with family especially my parents that live in Australia
Where are you currently living? Ohio
What do you do for a job? teacher
Do you have any pets? one pup, she's in my siggy
What do you like to do for fun? read, craft, be with family
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? baseball
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? One brother. My SIL is due in August with my nephew!
What is your favorite season and why? Spring. It means school is almost out!
What is your favorite holiday? Memorial Day - the unofficial start of summer
Trying to get knocked up since June 2012 ~ Dx: PCOS
BFP 7.24.13 ~ EDD 4.2.14 ~ m/c 9.16.13 @ 11w4d
BFP 5.4.14 ~ EDD 1.12.15 ~ stick little bean!
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NY
Where are you currently living? San Antonio, TX!
What do you do for a job? I was a college recruiter & got laid off last month.
Do you have any pets? 2 quaker parrots and a 7 week old rescue chihuahua
What do you like to do for fun? Movies, walks, gym
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? In general, no, but I do love the Spurs!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 1older sister, 1 younger brother, and younger step sister & half brother
What is your favorite season and why? Fall in NY and "winter" in Texas!
What is your favorite holiday? Veterans' Day (I'm an Army wife & grew up in an Army family) & 4th of July- I love fireworks!
Where are you from? I'm from a small town outside Grand Rapids, MI
Where are you currently living? We're living in the White Mountain Area of AZ now. (Our 6th place in 6 years of marriage...5 towns, 3 states). I can't wait to buy a place and settle down.
What do you do for a job? I'm a certified teacher, but right now I'm a SAHM.
Do you have any pets? We have a cat, Boo.
What do you like to do for fun? We hike, watch movies, read, we love horse-back riding and DH and I met working at a camp ranch, but we haven't been able to do much of it lately. We love traveling.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Not really.
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have a sister and DH has a half sister, half brother, 2 full brothers and 1 full sister. We also have two families that we are VERY close to and they are like family, each of those have 6 kids each, so it's like we have 12 additional siblings. We have two nieces, my BIL's girls. He doesn't really do much with his kids, but we they spend a lot of time with my IL's. My aunt and uncle have two kids about the same age as mine and they are very close. I nannied them for a year with my two kids and so they are best friends.
What is your favorite season and why? Spring or Fall. I like that it's not too hot or cold
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas I think.
Morgan's Birth Story: http://www.fullcirclemidwifery.com/2009/06/morgans-birth/
Chloe's Birth Story: http://www.fullcirclemidwifery.com/2012/04/chloes-birth/
Where are you from? The Woodlands Tx
Where are you currently living? A small town outside of Fort Worth Tx
What do you do for a job?I am a SAHM
Do you have any pets?One Dog Lilly
What do you like to do for fun? Spend time with my kids and hubby, read, or girls night out
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?We are huge college sports fans we love the Virgina Tech Hokies and Texas a&m
Do you have any siblings?Yes and older sister Nieces/nephews?yes two nieces and two nephews
What is your favorite season and why?Winter, I love cold weather
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
Where are you currently living? Illinois
What do you do for a job? Third grade teacher
Do you have any pets? We have two dogs.
What do you like to do for fun? Baking, knitting, reading
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? I'm not a huge sports fan, but I do like watching Cardinals baseball. (My husband is a huge sports fan, so I watch other things, too...just not so much by choice!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have 1 sister (2BIL, 3 SIL), but no nieces or nephews.
What is your favorite season and why? Fall, because I love bonfires, picking apples & pumpkins at a local farm, bonfires, caramel apples, the falling leaves & temperatures.
What is your favorite holiday? I love Christmas! I can't wait for Christmas time to roll around each year.
Where are you from? Bristol, RI
Where are you currently living?
Coventry, RI
What do you do for a job? Event Planning Manager
Do you have any pets? Not yet
What do you like to do for fun? Going to the beach, shopping, traveling
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Yes! Red Sox, Bruins, Patriots and Celtics!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have a younger brother & a sister in law. I have a 10 year old niece
What is your favorite season and why?
I love summer! I just love being outside in the sunshine! I would live at the beach if I could!
What is your favorite holiday? 4th of July! The town that I grew up in holds the oldest consecutive 4th of July parade! The whole week before there are concerts by the water and a ton of other great events! I look forward to it every year!
Where are you currently living? Twin Cities
What do you do for a job? I help patients without health insurance find programs to pay their medical bills
Do you have any pets? 1 yorkie
What do you like to do for fun? Read, travel, go to sporting events, go to the lake
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Sioux hockey, MN Twins, Wild, and Vikings
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 2 brothers 1 sister. 3 nieces, 3 nephews. I was the only one without any children... Not anymore!
What is your favorite season and why? Summer, love the warm weather!
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas. It's the one time a year we get to see our whole family
Where are you from? St. Louis, MO
Where are you currently living? Sterling Heights,MI (suburb of Detroit)
What do you do for a job? Mainly SAHM but I do have a part time retail job nights and weekends when DH is home
Do you have any pets? A cat
What do you like to do for fun? Spend time with DH and our 3 year old DD, going to the zoo or park, movies
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?not really but I do still lovd my home town baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals
Do you have any siblings? Only child Nieces/nephews? No
What is your favorite season and why?
fall and summer I like the crisp autumn air and changing colors and getting back into hoodies and fat clothes lol but also love the longer days of summer and doing things outside and grilling and sitting on the patio and going up north for vacation on Lake Michigan
What is your favorite holiday? I enjoy thanksgiving bc like someone else said no stress over gifts/money just spending time with family and eating yummy food and I love pumpkin pie
Where are you currently living? Quebec, Canada (Montreal)
What do you do for a job? Sciences teacher
Do you have any pets? No
What do you like to do for fun? Camping, travelling, reading, cooking
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Not really a fan, but I like NFL football
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 1 brother (4 kids: 1 boy, 3 girls) and 1 sister (2 kids: 1 boy, 1 girl)
What is your favorite season and why? Late spring (blooming season because it smells so good!) and summer (I'm a teacher!)
What is your favorite holiday? Christmas
Where are you from? I was born and raised in MA.
Where are you currently living? Germantown, MD, just north of DC.
What do you do for a job? Photographer and SAHM with my lil' guy.
Do you have any pets? 3 dogs and a beta fish.
What do you like to do for fun? game nights, dinners out, travel (just got back from a Mediterranean cruise earlier this month), swim, read, artsy-crafty stuff, take pictures.
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams? Only because I married a sports fanatic. Go Red Sox!
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? I have three younger brothers. No nieces/nephews yet. Only my youngest brother is in a serious relationship.
What is your favorite season and why? Spring because I love to watch things wake up from the winter.
What is your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving. It's all about the food and family
Me: 31, DH: 34, Married 5/29/05
BFP #1: 6/22/10, EDD 3/6/11, DS born 2/25/11 @ 38w5d
BFP #2: 7/27/13, EDD 4/9/14, CP 8/3/13
BFP #3: 8/31/13, EDD 5/10/13, DD born med-free 5/9/14 @ 39w6d
Where are you currently living?
Small town outside of Boston
What do you do for a job? Preschool teacher
Do you have any pets? A chocolate lab!
What do you like to do for fun?
Camping, beach, paddle boarding
Are you a sports fan? Favorite teams?
Boston! Especially the Bruins and the Pats
Do you have any siblings? Nieces/nephews? 2 nieces, 2 nephews- ranging in age 6 to 3 months!
What is your favorite season and why? Fall. The smell of crisp air and Yankee candles takes me to my happy place
What is your favorite holiday? Thanksgiving and Christmas, I love how long the holiday season is, and in my family we spread it out from thanksgiving to New Years!