Lovely Jen, of Love Food Cook Food, tagged me in a blogger game to help readers learn a bit more their blogger friends. Please pop over to her wonderful site and find out all about her! I’m down in Sea Island, Georgia, for spring break, so I’ll check in with you all upon my return. Till then, here is some fascinating Skinny Chick trivia….hahahaha. I hope you’ll check back in a couple days for my French Fridays with Dorie post~
The Rules:
1. You must post the rules.
1. You must post the rules.
2. Post 12 fun facts about yourself in the blog post.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create 12 new questions for the people you tagged.
4. Tag 12 people and link them on your post.
5. Let them know you’ve tagged them.
12 Things You Didn’t Know About Me:
- I like white chocolate more than dark chocolate.
- I like cookie dough better than cookies.
- In my former life, I worked as a hem-onc nurse…on the liquid tumor ward…our patient population had lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, etc.
- I have two sons and one daughter…my youngest will be college bound in the fall…sniff, sniff. My oldest has a masters in Biology and a Pharmceutical Science undergrad degree. Miss Katie (AKA Queen of the House) has cerebral palsy and works at a pet grooming/boarding business doing small animal care…playing with pups and kitties.
- My hubby fixes hearts…and loves what he does.
- My dad is a physicist…and that was my only B on my high school report card! My mom taught college level calligraphy and was a talented organist/pianist in her prime.
- I have 3 younger sisters…two are extremely artistic and the other is more math and science oriented like me.
- Our beloved yellow lab is named after the Green Bay packer player and coach, Curly Lambeau.
- I have told the kids that Lambeau’s middle name is “Field,” but they just won’t accept that!
- I am avid reader, although blogging is eating into this pastime. I’ve been in the same book club for 15+ years. Here is a link to the books we’ve read.
- I burn off my calories doing hot yoga and running on the treadmill.
- My husband says I never met a dollar I couldn’t spend. (This is what I get when I ask my family for suggestions!).
- He also says that 90% of my weight is in my right foot (I may need to reconsider input from outside sources!).
- I drink hot tea now; but coffee got me through college.
Questions from Jen:
- What’s your most used kitchen gadget? My Sankotu knife (Is a knife a gadget?)
- Which ingredient could you not live without? Butter
- What dish means Christmas to you? English toffee
- If you could choose a cake for your birthday, which kind would you choose? Ina’s coconut cupcakes
- If you were stuck in the desert how would you survive? By praying to be rescued ASAP!
- What’s the meanest trick you’ve ever pulled? I can’t think of one, but my hubby sent me a fake invoice for a cow sign with spotlights that was to be put in our yard on my birthday!
- Who would you most like to cook for? My mom (she has Alzheimer’s and would have loved my blog)
- Milk or Plain chocolate, which do you prefer? Milk
- What would you cook for you favourite person? The dessert of their choice
- What’s your favourite pet? The one and only Lambeau, our yellow lab
- Would you walk 500 miles to see the one you love? Of course~
- What was your favourite childhood food? My mom’s mounds bars..graham cracker crust, coconut/sweetened condensed milk center, semisweet chocolate topping (I search the house each time I visit for this recipe!)
Anyone who has read this far is officially tagged! My questions for you are:
- White bread or whole wheat?
- Do you stuff your turkey? Or bake your dressing separately?
- Pie, crisp or cobbler?
- Martha Stewart or Ina Garten?
- Lard, butter or shortening in your pie crust?
- Who is your biggest inspiration in the kitchen?
- Nuts or no nuts in your chocolate chip cookies?
- Chocolate or vanilla ice cream?
- Do like thunderstorms?
- How many pets do you have?
- What’s your favorite Beatles’ song?
- If you could choose to live anywhere, where would it be?
And thanks to Dawn, of Words of Deliciousness, and Kristina, of Whipped, for the Versatile Blogger Award! It’s such an honor to be recognized by fellow bloggers. Please check both of their delicious blogs, too.
Have a wonderful week!!!! I’ll be back to visiting you all this weekend. xoxo
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Eeek! *Ahem* .. I mean, how nice to be tagged. The pic of Lambeau right at the top … how could I resist!?
Have a super holiday, Lizzy. I’m going to need one soon … pretty hectic here at the moment. So, I’ll take a bit of time to come up with the answers to your questions. Hi, Lambeau … bite your mistress for me. Good doggy.
Great pic in Venice!!
Have a lovely day
Cute dog! But unfortunately I have to disagree with you about the white chocolate preference… for me it’s dark all the way!
Nice photo of your Family Lizzy, cute kids…..but especially Lambeau, she’s so adorable looking that doggy.
It was so nice of you to be tagged, some of your answers I already knew, but not the chocolate preference flavour though.
Hope you are having a great time on your holiday.
Great family picture,Have a great vacation to you and your family and Great post !!
Ridwan
I’m not sure we see eye to eye with chocolate preference. White chocolate is too sweet!
Wow, that sounds so odd coming from me, complaining about something being too sweet. ._.
It is always fun to learn more about the bloggers we enjoy visiting. I know what you mean about blogging interfering with your reading. I have a book that I am halfway through that I haven’t pick up for a week.
How fun! I love white chocolate more than dark as well!
I hadn’t realized you’d just been honoured with the Versatile Blogger Award!!! Well I have again. You can participate as much as you’d like. You rock sister!
wow, you come from very intelligent stock!! and love your dog’s nname!! GO PACKERS, anne
LOVE your family photo Liz!
I keep checking back to your book club list. I’m in two book clubs, and would love to be in both for as long as you have. What’s your top 3 favorite books of all time?
Lovely photo Liz!
Beautiful family photo. I just emailed you a Mounds Bar recipe. Hope it’s the same one you have been searching for. Susan
I love this dear always is nice know more about you lol! the picture is amazing! and your kids awesome lol
nice kids!
My mom teach me to cook really early (about 12) cause I wanna, and still she cook fantastic but she is more tired now but she love my recipes.
Sorry your mom has alzaimher:(
Im really happy you be my friend lol
Fascinating post! I have enjoyed so much meeting your family and getting to know you better. (I must check what hot yoga is! I could do with something to burn off calories too
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I am truly appreciative of the time you took and even better read and see the awesome life you all have together. I love that your husband is a heart surgeon, everyone in my family has had either aortic valve replaced or quad bypass. You also have found the secret of youth, I really thought you were early 20′s until I saw the kids photo (are they adopted?) You can cook, and are so talented in many other ways and still find time to excersize and read? WOW> super woman! Sorry to read about your mom that is so heartbreaking. I now feel like I’ve known you forever thanks for sharing your private life with us, you are one great blogger and wife, mom and friend!
Have a great time! Loved learning a little bit more about you
Awesome family picture, Liz! Loved learning more about you!
Its always fun to learn more about bloggers who you visit regularly and are in your good books.
I have been reading your blog forever and there was a lot you said that I never knew. What a great lady you are!!
Very interesting reading. Majority of your household are scientists. No wonder you prefer baking to cooking:)
It was so fun to read your answers and the facts about you, Liz! We have few things in common
I hope you don’t mind receiving one more award: I nominated you for the Happy Blogger Award on my blog. Have a great rest of the week, my friend! xoxo
wo wi enjoyed reading about u…ur family all r from science background thats wonderfull…loved learning more about u.
I think I might have said this before Liz, but is there any chance I can borrow Lambeau for a day or two?
Your family is so beautiful and I think you are wonderful! Enjoy your vacation
Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
Thanks so much for sharing, Lizzy – and I’m so glad you tagged us all. I’m excited to do this myself – it really is a great concept for introducing bloggers to each other… ok, off to check Jen’s blog…
Lizzy, it’s so nice to know more about you! Somehow I can totally see you as a nurse. And, psst, I love white chocolate too. Why does that seem so shameful to admit?
I love reading more about you Liz! You have a beautiful family.
Cool to find out more about you as well as your family Liz! I hope you are enjoying your spring break.
My husband says I never met a dollar I couldn’t spend – we must be sisters! My hubs says the same about me!
You’re so sweet Lizzy and I love reading tidbits about you…you’re an amazing mom and wife. Lovely family photo. Sending you hugs.xx
While I cringed at the bit about white chocolate (sorry – I can’t bear to eat white chocolate!), I loved reading the post about you, Lizzy! It was so fun… I hope I get the time to work this post in! I hope you’re enjoying your time away
Such a sweet photo of Lambeau, and your beautiful family, Lizzy!
I am so thrilled for you that you got to go on a real vacation to relax, catch some sun enjoy the company of your family!
Loved reading all the things about you that I did not know. So sorry about your mom!
No wonder you are such a fabulous baker. You got everything down to a science. Enjoy your vacation, Lizzy!
xoxo
I love posts like this to learn a bit more about bloggers I love. I am going to check out that book list. I am always looking for new suggestions.
We’re all tagged? Holy cow… I better get working on more facts about myself.
I hope you and your family are having a blast on your vacation!! ~ Ramona 
Like that honest and sincere sharing of yours Lizzy and the photos says it all some of your sharing you did.
What a fun little game of tag. Hope you are having a sunny time.
Love the family photo and all your fun facts. Have a great vacay, and eat lots of white chocolate!
Che bella la fotografia della tua famiglia ^__^
Interessante e piacevole scoprire tante cose su di te!!!
Un abbraccio!!!
You have a lovely family
And, I loved reading all the fun facts about you. Have a nice time.
What a beautiful family you have, Liz. And I love getting to know my fellow bloggers a little better. Thank you for sharing that with us.
So nice to learn more about you Lizzy!! Thanks so much for sharing!
I love finding out more – I had no idea your whole family was such a scientific bunch!
Makes me happy.
And those Mounds bars sound to die for.
What a post! Very interesting life! Your family looks so happy and you look so proud to have them all around you.
Great pic of you and your family. It was nice to read and get to know you more Lizzy!
i am with you! I couldn’t live without butter! too many things require it and it just tastes so darn good! Love hearing more about you!
What a beautiful family
Oh Lizzy, I loved learning more about you and your family…lovely picture as well.
Hope you are having a fabulous week
LOL, I hadn’t seen this post…. http://www.foodbuzz.com/blogs/5319010-blog-noun-bl-g-bl-g-psst-it-s-a-verb-too-
you are collecting these things!
I couldn’t live without butter too! LOL.
Great pic Liz!
You and your family are amazing! And I think I like cookie dough better too.
I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday – your family picture is great! So nice to learn more about you…..I had to smile at your family’s suggestions such as a heavy foot – I can relate!! Love your dog.
Lizzy, love that “My hubby fixes hearts”! U’re so cute! Hahaha! Great getting to know u even more now & what a heart-warming family pix u’ve got here!
Well I knew I loved your blog before seeing your son in a Purdue T, but then the pup named Lambeau sealed the deal!! I received my Master’s from good old Purdue and am a lifelong Greenbay fan! You have a beautiful family! What great answers too, I so enjoyed learning more about you! I will hurry & comply with being sucked in to the last sentence, lol!
1. Whole wheat
2. Both, actually
3. Cobbler
4. YIKES, Martha! (sorry)
5. Butter
6. Julia
7. No nuts
8. Vanilla
9. Love them!
10. One – my 9 month old standard schnauzer named Zoe Mae
11. Hard choice, tonight it’s Long & Winding Road
12. Where ever my hubby is!
Very cute post, Lizzy! It was great learning more about you and your family. I hope you are having a wonderful time in Georgia!
Congrats my friend
It was so awesome to find out more about you – well deserved!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Congrats my friend
It was so awesome to find out more about you – well deserved!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
That’s some family you have! Funny, I knew your hubby was a doc (from previous photos)! You’re such a friendly person, I already felt like I knew you, but this was wonderful…thanks for sharing!
I love all the tidbits that I never knew about you as a child Liz! What a wonderful life you have had to CELEBRATE! Life is good, huh? Congrats on the numerous blog awards you are deserving of !
XOXO, Roz
I knew about the white chocolate, lol. I’m sniffling for you about your baby leaving. Mine is home for Spring break right now and leaving tomorrow, no you are gonna make me cry again. You have a beautiful family Lizzy and they are so blessed to have you taking such great care of them. You deserve all the awards!
-Gina-
Lovely to learn more about you Liz. Can’t believe your youngest is heading off to college. Lovely crab salad by the way. Your presentation is so pretty.
1.whole wheat
2.turkey, both
3.Pie, crisp or cobbler – all three
4.Ina Garten
5.butter
6.My mother and my sisters
7.Nuts
8.Chocolate AND vanilla ice cream
9.Love thunderstorms
10.One fat cat
11.Hey Jude
12.Where my family and friends are close by
I loved getting to know you a little better here. What a great blog idea. My mom had Alzheimer’s too, so I know something of what you may be experiencing there. My mom would have loved my blog too – or really just the idea that I was doing one
Lovely family! Hubby fixes hearts? Curious me.
Oooh Claudia cleared that up for me. WOW!!
p.p.s. Where is the recipe for Ina’s coconut cupcakes? Curious again.
Wish I had said all the lovely things Claudia said. Ditto. Thanks for everything.
you’re so cool Lizzy. you really know to make friends in this virtual world. and that family photo…boy, beautiful…
I’m not far from Sea Island – I wish I’d known that’s where you were headed or I would have popped up for lunch or a cup of coffee! I loved this little peak into your life.
Your pup is adorable, and love the family pic
Also loved reading more about you…and I agree your mom would be so proud!