Mike said this was easy, he obviously doesn’t need a therapist

Okay, so Molly was tagged to give us ten things she liked about herself, and she tagged Mike, Clink, Sass and me.

Guess who hasn’t done her list yet?

And I thought I could slide on through without doing this since I haven’t even posted pictures from my FIRSTBORN’s birthday yet, but a little hard when you work next door to your two blogging mentors. Who tagged you and are waiting for your list, respectively. Eeek.

So, without further stalling, here you have ten good things about me:

1. I make absolutely killer brownies. No mix for me–just serious dark chocolate. Not only that,

2. I developed my own recipe for these brownies. You know, all Martha Stewart-like. My OWN recipe. (And I do share. If you want it, tell me in the comments, and I’ll email it to you.)

3. I’m really good at keeping in touch with people. Maybe not the fastest at returning your email THIS WEEK, but over the course of a lifetime I find it very important to stay in touch with friends and family, and I work hard at that.

4. I can whup you at Scrabble. (Unless, of course, you are one of the people I play who routinely whup me. But sometimes I even whup them, too.) I can spell really, really well, too. I just have to write the word down, first. I can’t spell it until I see it written down. I also had close to a perfect score on the verbal portion of the SAT, and on the English test for the New York State Regents diploma.

5. That probably all stems from being a crazy, voracious reader. I have probably read more books than most people you know. I didn’t say they were AMAZING, QUALITY, SCHOLARLY books, but still. It keeps me off the streets.

6. And, I think it has been partly responsible for instilling a love of books in our son, Will, who sees me read, and wants to read my “grown-up” books. (Henry too, but mostly just his new farm animal books from grandma and grandpa.) Will is a voracious consumer of books, both on his own and having them read to him—he can never get enough. He is desperate to learn the words for himself, but can spend a half hour with a Richard Scarry book on his lap.

7. I don’t sleep a lot, and I do a lot. I tend to do more than one thing at a time, and for the purposes of this list, I’ll say that is a good thing!

8. I take good photographs. (Mostly of cute kids, so you’ll never know how much is me and how much is my subject matter!)

9. I’m the best mother I know how to be right now, and I’m learning all the time how to improve.

10. I sing to my babies.

And there you have it.