My Big Sister's Top Ten Favorite Songs Of All Time

1. Romeo and Juliet- Indigo Girls
2. Sullivan Street- Counting Crows
3. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
4. In My Life- Judy Collins or The Beatles
5. Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond
6. And So It Goes- Billy Joel
7. Untitled Hymn - Chris Rice
8. Your Song- Elton John
9. Fix You- Coldplay
10. Scratch- Kendall Payne

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A Sampling Of My Mom's Curiously Odd Answers In An Enlightening Game Of "Choices"

1. Kevin James over Brad Pitt
2. She picks Alfred as the hottest Ludlow brother in Legends of the Fall. Over Tristan, who is arguably the hottest movie character of all time. Clearly Brad Pitt isn't her cup of tea.
3. George Strait over Alan Jackson
4. George Strait for the win as he edges out Kevin James
5. In another shocker, Mom chooses Ted as the cutest guy on How I Met Your Mother.
6. Jason Street from Friday Night Lights. Jason Street. Not Coach Taylor. Not Tim Riggins. Sigh.


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My Favorite Pieces At The Nelson-Atkins Museum

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1. Double Waterfall For a Simple Afternoon- Pat Steir. This photo doesn't do this stunner justice.

2. Memento No. 5- Kerry James Marshall

3. The Chariot- Alberto Giacometti

4. There was a beautiful Impressionist painting of a woman looking out of a window, but I don't recall the artist or the title of the painting! Err...Pissaro? Maybe...I have no idea. Loved it, though.

5. The Roxy Paine exhibit. He has a tree installed in their lawn, but the exhibit included many of his size-reduced models and a production video. Fascinating.

6. Boulevard des Capucines- Claude Monet

7. View of Lake Garda- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. I think this was my favorite, but I don't really know why. It stirred something emotional in me, which is a powerful thing about art.

8. Standing Figures (Thirty Figures)- Magdalena Abakanowicz

9. A Pantry Ballet (for Jacques Offenbach)- Joseph Cornell. This was just too cute. W would've loved it and my mind was running away with ideas for my kids.

Honestly

1. I care a lot about what people think of me.
2. I don't like being in photos.
3. I think that a house will solve all my problems and that's why God won't let me have one.
4. I don't think I'm pretty and I wish I were.
5. If I could have one talent it would be to sing really well and raspy.
6. I'm materialistic.
7. Being told you are too skinny is just as painful as being told you're too fat. So I might start returning the favor.
8. My number one pet peeve is mothers complaining about being mothers.
9. I don't feel like I fit anywhere most of the time.
10. I make the best brownies.
11. My dream life would be living in the country and owning a farm animal rescue.
12. I currently have the complexion of a pubescent teenage boy and am surviving on ProActiv and Bare Escentuals.
13. I've been working on my top ten favorite songs of all time list for weeks. It feels like the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, which says a lot about my life.
14. I also make the best cookies.


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Kansas City

1. Checked in to our hotel

2. Walked around and shopped at the Plaza

3. Had dinner at CPK- my favorite Pear and Gorgonzola pizza and a raspberry lemonade

4. Walked back to our hotel to change our clothes and gussy up

5. David Gray concert! As always, amazing.

6. Took a cab from the concert to Cheesecake Factory for late night dessert- I had a slice of key lime cheesecake

7. Slept in until 9:30

8. Brunch at in-gre-di-ent in the Plaza. I had steel cut oatmeal with sliced bananas, cinnamon, brown sugar, and carmalized almonds

9. Toured the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum

10. Drove home and picked up our babies

What I Ate Yesterday

1. A thick slice of toasted Great Harvest Cinnamon swirl bread with cream cheese and some sliced strawberries, chocolate almond milk

2. Lime quinoa with avocado & black beans and kale chips on the side, water

3. A bowl of Kashi Go Lean Crunch with coconut milk yogurt and peaches and banana

4. Nachos! Multigrain Tostitos loaded with refried beans, black beans, sweet potato chunks, nutritional yeast sauce, and salsa. I drank an orange spritzer.

5. Cinnamon chocolate chip cookies, almond milk

My Kids Road Trip Bag

1. An endless supply of stickers

2. Notepad for each for said stickers and sketching

3. Pencil bag for each with markers and crayons

4. Color Wonder color books with the required markers

5. 8 sets of flash cards, now on rings

6. Thin, cheap paperback books

7. Highlight's High Five magazines

8. A bag of stamps and stamp ink pads

9. Binoculars

10. Sunglasses

11. An Etch-A-Sketch

12. Two Leap Frog laptops

13. Several small $2 character activity/sticker/coloring books from Hobby Lobby