Hi! Paragraph: I am Tay, mid-20s in Utah. There's my husband Brian and the two little boys, Sean and Alan. We like to have fun.
History paragraph: Brian and I met at BYU. He graduated in 2006 and I in 2008. My graduation was shortly followed by the birth of Sean. Before all that I mainly just played and worked and learned and enjoyed life as much as I could.
***Questions: There are 20 random questions listed below. Pick at least five, but up to twelve you’d like the answer the most. (I prefer that you include #4 and #12, but I’m not the boss of you.
) You can do it in any order.1. What’s your favorite part of motherhood? My favorite part is when the boys are sleeping and peeking in at them in their angelic state and remember why I became a mom in the first place. Second favorite is how much they learn in a short period of time; I have a love/hate relationship with the feeling of 'I can't believe he understands that.'
2. What part of motherhood would you subcontract out if you could? Dealing with post-vacation/family-get-togethers drama from the boys. It's when they realize that I'm boring in my structured ways. :)
3. Brag for a minute. Do it. What are a few things that you’re pretty good at? I do some good crochet work and I'd like to say that I have good fashion taste (and sometimes dress in spite of it...). But I am fantastic at reading. Really. It's my best and favorite talent.
4. What’s something you don’t usually want people to know about you, but that they need to know if they’re going to be your friend? I am friends with most everybody. I don't care if two people don't like each other, they can both be my friend and I will never tolerate or participate in talking bad about that other person. There are, of course, people I have a hard time swallowing or just plain don't like, but I don't have to think about them if I don't want to. I prefer to think about what I DO like in people and if you have a problem with that, then I guess we aren't as good of friends as I thought. (Harsh?) In addition, I don't care if my friend is friends with somebody I don't want to be around. I try to play fair that way.
5. What parts of your testimony are you the most sure of? I am the most sure of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as a foundation to happiness and peace. I know that when I pray to my Heavenly Father that the peace I am searching for will come. I know that the Holy Ghost is real and gives comfort and aids in answering questions I have. The Gospel is the most sure and constant thing in my life; it's what gives me hope, allows me to love more fully, gives my life more depth and understanding and lifts me up when I turn to it when hope seems distant.
6. Let’s say you’re dying in your sleep tonight. What would you eat for your last meal? I would go to all of my favorite restaurants and eat my favorite things off of the menu. Who cares about indigestion or gaining weight? It's my last night! I would also eat everything off the dessert menus that I'd been wanting to try and hadn't for some silly reason. It sounds gluttonous, but I'd make sure that I had people around me that I love and I would share with them.
7. If your life had a theme song, what would it be and why? Right now, it's "Keep Your Head Up" by Andy Grammer. Life has a way of throwing a whole lotta crap at you sometimes, but you can still be happy through it and not get uptight and/or bitter about it.
8. If you could make a pie chart (graph) of your thoughts during the last week or so, what would take up most of the space? The eternal nature of things. I want to better understand the nature of the sealing power and what will happen in some relationship. In addition, I have experienced a lot of things pertaining to eternity over the last couple of weeks. The death of a friend's baby, the temple marriage of my cousin, the death of another friend's father, remembering another friend's stillborn who came and left a year ago, and still muddling through the tumultuous divorce of my parents. It's been heavy around here, but we've been doing really well. Promise.
