25 Random Things about me.

Dots started running a fever late Sunday night. I took her to the pediatrician yesterday who diagnosed her with Influenza A. He started her on Relenza (similar to Tamiflu but effective against the A strain, which Tamiflu is not, and in an inhaler), and he also prescribed a preventive dose for the rest of the family. Vivian's school just called and said she didn't seem to be feeling good, so I went and picked her up and am now home playing Florence Nightingale. I would much rather be Bonnie Blogger right now, believe me!

Since I don't have time to come up with an original post, I thought I'd share these "25 Random Things about Me" that a Facebook friend challenged me to write recently.

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25 Random Things about Me
1. I came to Texas from Georgia in 1982 to attend SMU. I always intended to move back to Georgia but fell in love with a Texan, so here I stay.
2. I like living here much more than I ever thought I would, though I miss the physical beauty of Atlanta and the feeling of being close to my roots.
3. I have three children: Will (17), Vivian (14) and Dorothy (11).
4. Though I certainly never expected to have a daughter with mental retardation and epilepsy (my middle child, Vivian), I think being her mother has made me a more patient and compassionate person.
5. I am the least coordinated, most unathletic person I know, but I love to watch sports, especially my son Will's hockey games.
6. I have a fondness for all things elegant and feminine, which includes a weakness for expensive shoes.
7. I have collected postcards since I was a young girl. They now fill over five shoe boxes and are sorted by states and countries using little pieces of construction paper that I labeled in elementary school. The postcards are a wonderful record of places I've been as well as a treasured collection of handwritten notes from my grandparents, parents and friends over the years.
8. I love to travel, especially to Europe.
9. I wish that I had lived in New York City when I was in my 20's.
10. I loved high school and wouldn't change much about my experience, but I confess that being a straight-laced teenager was not particularly good preparation for being the mother of a teenager.
11. Paris is my favorite city in the whole world. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to live with a French family one summer in high school. I have returned many times since then: by myself, with a friend, with my husband and with our family, and the city enchants me anew each time. I dream of having a flat there one day.
12. My husband, Robert, was and is the nicest person I have ever met.
13. I was a math major in college and graduate school. It comes in very handy for helping my son and his friends with their high school math classes.
14. Even though my sister Marian lives much too far from me (in Tifton, Georgia), I talk to her almost every day.
15. I loved diagramming sentences in English and balancing equations in Chemistry.
16. With hobbies like knitting and bridge and a love of music by Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong, I think I might have been born in the wrong generation.
17. Contrary to #16, though, I enjoy computers and technology gadgets.
18. I love to write and receive handwritten notes.
19. Music has an incredible power to transport me to other times and places in my life.
20. I wish I were more organized.
21. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I host a Valentine luncheon for 30+ friends every year in my home.
22. I love fresh flowers.
23. Some of my happiest childhood memories were at our family's cabin in Vidalia, Georgia.
24. I have been blessed with wonderful teachers, family and friends over the course of my life, and it has been really fun to reconnect with many of them on Facebook.
25. I have the best life of anyone I know.