Today’s update is actually a re-blog from Raelyn’s post as she wades deeper into the Liebster pool and answers Mom’s squirrelly list of 11 questions. I don’t know when she blogs…she crafts, volunteers and raises puppies who (hopefully) grow up to be service dogs for those who need them. I especially love her weekly “Pupdates” with all the photos of these incredible animals…oh, and she tells family stories in her spare time. Read on, and swing by http://www.tellingfamilystories.com to catch up with Raelyn, the pups and all the other stuff she does:
Liebster Award for TellingFamilyTales – Part 2a
Liebster-Blog-Award (Photo credit: dont ✗ kaysiao)So for this part of fulfilling the requirements for a Liebster Award I will be answering the questions that my nominator (Mom of Maybe someone should write that down. . . ) put together. Here goes:
1. If I weren’t blogging about this stuff I would be…
. . . lets see, probably taking a nap.
2. Who are you named after?
family tradition says that I’m named after my dad (Ray) and my uncle (Lynn).
3. I would like my epitaph to read as follows:
that I made the world a better place because of how I lived my life.
4. Favorite quote:
this is a tough one, I’m not sure if I have a favorite quote. There are lots of sayings that I really like but not sure that I can attribute them to a single person. My current favorite that I’m trying to live each day is “Find Wonder & Delight”
5. Something I will never understand is…(no fair using “Math” I’ve had a lock on that answer for years)
. . . how anyone can be mean to a puppy.
6. If I could run around all day everyday, dressed any way that I pleased I would wear:
a comfy pair of jeans and a big sloppy sweatshirt.
7. What class do you wish you had paid more attention to in school?
I can’t remember ever thinking that. Maybe I just didn’t pay enough attentions to even know that I was missing out on learning something. I sometime wish that I was better at learning languages but I’m not sure that paying more attention in class would change that.
8. Do you write full-time?
I’m not sure I even write part-time. I don’t consider myself a writer. I only do it because there isn’t a choice.
9. What’s your dream job
playing around with new and creative projects and getting paid for it.
10. Where is your dream Writer’s Corner?
my dream (non)writer’s corner would be a comfy window seat with just the right amount of sunlight and gorgeous views of mountains and/or the ocean and/or a pasture with horses grazing.
11. What’s the craziest thing you have ever learned about your family?
That years ago it wasn’t uncommon to reuse the name of a child that died young. It seems crazy to me to think of more than one child with the same name.
Now I can check one more thing of my to do list. The second part of this requirement will be coming soon. With any luck, tomorrow.
I agree about the re-using of the name, but then in my father’s famly they used the same girl names for each girl–just put the names in a different order!
Yeah, and renaming a later child after a baby is one thing…some parents named their subsequent children the same even if the deceased offspring was 2 or 3 years old at the time of death! Crazy….
I wonder if this was their way of dealing with the mortality rate of their children? But after 2 or 3 you would think they would use any other name but ____. In ome branches I would have 3 or 4 “Uncle Johns” who were only a couple of years apart and brothers, Instead, the name they re-used was almost like a death sentence.
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