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1. I quit drinking when I was 19 because I believed I was an alcoholic.

2. I started drinking again when I was 26 because I believed I was an adult who could refrain from drinking to excess.

3. When Lena and Liberty were little, they taught themselves to read mostly by playing video games. Neopets.com, specifically.

4. I homeschool purely because I think today’s schools can kill a child’s love of reading and I think reading is the key to life. (My reasons for homeschooling have changed since the beginning, but this is the one I always come back to). I have no such concern for the love of math.

5. I read to Lena and Liberty constantly from the time they were born and I still read to them because they still like it. My 5 year old just started to enjoy being read to within the last year, but she can still read as well as Lena and Liberty could when they were her age. Examples like this show me that there is no magic bullet to these things and that takes a lot of pressure off of me.

6. I think homeschooling is awesome once you get over the part where you pressure yourself so much that you go insane, but I usually don’t recommend it to anyone. And I don’t think my reasons for homeschooling are good reasons to homeschool.

7. I used to be an evangelical Christian and I look back at that time of my life with shame.

8. I still believe in Jesus, but I might be a universalist and I’m not sure universalists can believe in Jesus. I’m for sure positive that Christians aren’t supposed to be universalists.

9. All of the “supposed to” and “not supposed to” with regard to religion and religious labels and homeschooling and homeschooling labels makes me sick.

10. I was an award-winning catcher on my high school softball team and I’m pretty sure I could still throw you out if you tried to steal 2nd base. It would hurt, but I could do it.

11. As of a couple of years ago, I still held the record for doubles on my high school softball team (maybe I still do, I don’t know).

12. My name is spelled wrong on the big MVP board that lists all of the past softball MVPs ever in the history of my high school’s softball program. It should say “Abby Clement,” but they put an “s” on the end. I’m glad it doesn’t say “Abigail Clements,” though.

13. My favorite song is “Glory Days” by Bruce Springsteen. JUST KIDDING! My lifetime favorite is “Porch” by Pearl Jam. My right-now favorite is anything by Kings of Leon.

14. My husband and I have known each other since 2nd grade and we’ve grown more in the last 2 years than we have ever in our lives. And we love each other more now than we have ever in our lives.

15. Arts and crafts make me anxious, but I’ll play dollhouse people or Polly Pockets with the kids without batting an eye.

16. I set the timer for 7 minutes when I begin playing dollhouse or Polly Pockets with Maya. Because more than that is just too much.

17. I listen to audio books on my iPod when I’m cleaning.

18. I think parents who are overly-invested in their child’s achievements in sports or academics are a special kind of crazy and they should know that it doesn’t feel good to be that child whose parents are those parents. There’s no difference between a stage mom and a sports mom who acts the same way.

19. I believe in therapy.

20. I believe it’s just as damaging to call a child skinny as it is to call her fat.

21. Giving a child a nickname that has to do with being skinny is also just as damaging as a nickname that has to do with being fat.

23. I frequently ponder religion and inclusion vs. exclusion and I struggle to be inclusive to those who are exclusive.

24. Both of my parents have been divorced twice.

25. I’m uncomfortable with praise.

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