Five Question Friday! 4/15/11

Normally, at this point in the week, I'd tell you how much I was looking forward to the weekend, however, this weekend, the one that is looming like a giant in front of us? Yeah...there's snow in the forecast this weekend.

Snow.

S-N-O-W. You know, the fluffy, white stuff that falls from the sky around Christmas (and, in MinneSOOOOta, between October and May, apparently) time? Yup. That stuff.

I'm sort of wishing this weekend would just breeze right past...or, more so, I wish the snow would just bypass us directly, and instead we would get back the 70 degree weather that we just had.

Pipe dreams, my friends, I know.

Anyway...enough talk about the weather, let's get this Five Question Friday boat sailing!!

If you're new to 5QF, WELCOME!! We're glad to have you...and I hope you enjoy yourself!

Rules for 5QF: HAVE FUN!! Oh, and copy and paste the following questions to your blog post, answer them, then watch for the linky post to appear Friday morning and LINK UP!

Questions for Friday, April 15th: (Special thanks to @Eligabiff, @RoryBore, @jengacek,Rachel, and Chrissy for their question suggestions! If YOU would like to be linked in a future 5QF c'mon over to my community and offer up your best question suggestions! Feel free to shout 'em out on Twitter to me [@5crookedhalos] using hashtag #5QF!)

1. What is your favorite sign of spring?

2. What was your best birthday ever?

3. What is your favorite dessert?

4. What is the best excuse you've ever used to get out of a ticket?

5. Do you wake up before your alarm, with your alarm, or after hitting snooze several times?

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1. What is your favorite sign of spring?

Okay, you know that whole monologue I just gave you above?

The one about the weather? Yeah...that one.

WARM WEATHER. That is my favorite sign of spring.

Oh, and the birds chirping and the grass turning green and the spring bulbs poking their pretty little heads through the soil, and the trees starting to bud.

Ahhhhhh...spring. It's so fresh and clean and new and WELCOME after a long, cold, never ending winter.

2. What was your best birthday ever?

Wellllllll, I suppose it's here that I should probably say that my 31st birthday, the one on which I gave birth to my youngest daughter, is my best birthday ever. After all, I got an amazing little (stubborn), adorable (strong-willed) cutie-pie for my gift, right?!

Only, I really liked having a birthday...and now she's gone an stole it from me.

I mean, really, couldn't she have come a day earlier (or, I guess, later, if she had to?)? No, of course not, 'cuz in true Baby Girl fashion...she does things HER OWN WAY.

And forget YOU if you think you're gonna tell her any differently!

But, then there is that wonderful 21st birthday on which I met an extremely handsome prince who swept me off my feet and gave me 4 more beautiful children (one of whom stole my birthday...)...that was a pretty great one!!

3. What is your favorite dessert?

Seconds of whatever we had for supper!

Serious...I'm much more of a "second helping of mashed potatoes" than a cake and cookies kinda girl. Although, I usually won't turn those down, either!

I'm definitely a salty over sweet girl...although...

My grandma (Hi Gram!!) makes this incredible tiramisu (hint, hint Gram!) that is just to. die. for.

Amazing.

Better than any I've ever had before.

OH! AND, my mom always makes me an angel food cake for my birthday, and she frosts it with whipped cream with a package of jello added. *swoon* It's scrumptious!

4. What is the best excuse you've ever used to get out of a ticket?

Well...this one time (you say it..."at band camp"...) my mom and I were on our way to a near-byish outlet mall, when I had my first experience with Hambone and his carsickness.

He was still rear-facing at that time, so I think he was right around one, and he proceeded to barf all over himself and the car seat. We had stopped at a gas station and I cleaned him up while my mom tackled the car seat, and we went our merry little way to the mall.

A very short time later, we were on a road that, I swear ('cuz I've looked now!), doesn't have the speed limit posted (to which my mom says, "Ignorance isn't an excuse"...apparently there are speed limits for different types of roads that we all should know. However, I don't know them.), when E. Dubs, in all of his 2 1/2 ish-ness (and new enough to potty training that I acted quickly on every declaration of "I HAVE TO POOP!) declared (say it with me) "I HAVE TO POOP!!!!"

So, apparently, I was driving too fast, or so says the state trooper that pulled me over, and when he walked up to the door, I blurted out:

"I'm sorry!! I have one that just puked all over himself and another that says he has to poop!"

I'm not even sure he ran my license. It was so quick...he just handed me back my stuff and said, "Slow down ma'am."

I think I saw him run back to his car in an effort to separate himself from the calamities occuring inside my vehicle.

But hey!! No ticket!

5. Do you wake up before your alarm, with your alarm, or after hitting snooze several times?

Alarm?

What's that?

Oh, you mean "my children"? Yeah, unfortunately, they don't have a snooze button...and I certainly don't wake up before them (kudos to you that do...my sleep is just WAY too precious to me)...so, I guess that would mean, B. I wake up with my alarm (children).

Although. On those horrific days that I do actually need to set an alarm, I typically hit snooze once, then get up.

Blech. I hate alarms.

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I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! (Please, send some warm weather back to us!!)