Confessions of a Tennessee'an Transplant

 We uses the bed of our truck for Traces playpen, complete with a fifth wheel hitch. He said "tractor" and "deer" before he said mama, and he has a deer instead of a dog for a pet.  Trace has watched the baby einsteins "old macdonald" video on you tube 500 times, because we are too cheap to buy him the dvd's.

As a family we have watched all 9 seasons of Little House on the Prairie in 9 months… to put it into perspective, that's 10,032 minutes of Walnut Grove Pioneer drama, in less than a years time. Although we loved it, it was somewhat like running a marathon, we didn’t enjoy every minute of it, but now we can boast. If there was a jeopardy episode that dealt entirely of Little House on the Prairie facts… we would be rich!

Many already know this, but just for the record, we are the Amish paparazzi. Shayna tells me to slow the car down when we are passing their homesteads so she can skillfully sneak some pictures. I'm sure the word has spread amongst them to be ware the silver SUV with the brown haired, crazy-bun woman in the back.

The other night while I was supposed to be studying for a test, I got into a heated debate with some classmates about politics. Feeling like a lunatic, I went home and told Shayna all about it. We agreed that we have become those contancorus sort of people our fathers seemed to be when we were children ... we think of ourselves as amateur constitutionalists.

Shayna hasn't followed a recipe in… well, she's never followed one. 90%* of the time it works out great… but occasionally it feels like we are pioneers just eating what crawls across our plates. It keeps us grounded. She also confesses that she is somewhat of a health food hypocrite. She makes sure we use only fresh ground wheat, agave, and lots of fresh produce; however, she also makes sure that we ingest at least 1/2 a pound of caramel or chocolate daily.

Of course our families wont think twice about this shocking  information, but we may loose some friends over it. We just had to show our true colors at some point in time.

*Shayna suggested 82% and I suggested 97%… she doesn’t give herself enough credit. We settled on 90%.