A Smattering of Duehrings

This is the same interview I do each year in January. I changed the questions a bit this year. I ask the kids separately so they don’t hear each others answers. I know I have posted a lot of interviews, but you have to have something to do when you are stuck in the house day after day in the miserable winters of Kansas. Goodness, I am ready for spring. You have no idea…

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Maggie - I want to be a cook and a waitress

Micah - a fireman

Evan - a store person that gets money because I want to be rich when I grow up

Eli - a worker

If you could go anywhere on vacation where would you want to go?

Maggie - the beach

Micah - Branson

Evan - to Colorado where all the cousins went

Eli - to an airport

What is your favorite toy?

Maggie - friendship bracelet kit

Micah - Webkinz

Evan - my cowboy hat and cowboy boots

Eli - motorcycle

What is your favorite meal?

Maggie - chicken noodle casserole with corn

Micah - pizza

Evan - pizza rolls and pizza

Eli - happy meal

What is your favorite restaurant?

Maggie - Chinese Buffet

Micah - Jose Peppers

Evan - Jose Peppers

Eli - McDonalds

What is the funnest thing about school?

Maggie - spending lots of time with the family and that we can go on trips and take our school work with us.

Micah - cursive writing

Evan - rhyming words

Eli - writing

What is your favorite thing you did last year?

Maggie - went to Branson

Micah - had Christmas with all the cousins

Evan - went to grammas

Eli - opened presents

What do you really want to do this year?

Maggie - go to Worlds of Fun, St Louis, and Branson

Micah - ride a motorcycle and go to Worlds of Fun

Evan - go to Chuck E Cheese and go to Silver Dollar City

Eli - Silver Dollar City

How many kids to you want to have when you grow up?

Maggie - 3 or 6 one of those two

Micah - 5

Evan - 4

Eli - 4

I cleaned out some drawers yesterday and decided it was time to throw all my panty hose away since I haven’t worn panty hose for over 10 years. It is hard for me to throw stuff away ya know? My kids didn’t even know what they were. Anyway, shortly after I was done I found Eli walking around the house like this.

I have taken a little break from races for a few months, but finally did another one yesterday. I decided to do one in January to make sure I didn’t slow down on running during these freezing cold winter months. It worked for me.

I came across this 10K cave run. The race is the only complete underground race in the USA. It is down in the caves where the temp year round is about 65-70 degrees. It was perfect for running. There were about 3,500 that did the race.

A friend came along to video tape and take pictures. I told her what time to expect me at the finish line since I run 10Ks in the exact same time every time. I came in within 15 seconds of when I told her I would be at the finish line. I did beat my previous time by about 30 seconds only because I wanted to beat my old time so I started my sprint to the finish line a bit earlier than normal.

It was a fun race and I would definitely do it again. Here are a few pictures.

The entrance to the cave.

The girls that did the 10K (several did the 5K but had already left since it was an hour earlier)

What the run looked like. Very unique race.

The starting line up was a bit crowded. We are back by the 9 min mile sign somewhere.

On our way out of the caves and back to the freezing reality outside.

The strongest of the cousins…

Maggie has a new hobby. It is knitting. She has always wanted to try knitting but me being the non-knitter that I am just really haven’t given her a chance to learn.

For Christmas she was given a knitting kit. She tried to figure it out and was having a hard time with it. Then I found out that Rachel takes her girls to a home school knitting group that meets on Thursday afternoons. Maggie has started to go with them and she LOVES it. There are some high school girls in the group that help the younger girls learn.

Gramma Tucker, she is really excited to come and learn from you so you had better brush up on your skills before she comes in February. She would be most happy to sit and knit with you all day. She has so many questions and I have no answers for her.

Her first learning project is a scarf she has started working on. She has doubled the length of it since I took this picture.