"get to know me monday." - w.3

so i have a quite few questions that were left unanswered from my "ask my anything" post way back before the vacay.  i've been meaning to answer them because they were all really good ones, so i'm gonna pick a few & answer them each monday for the next few weeks.

an anonymous poster asked:

"i often see washington state university related things on your blog - what is your affiliation with the school & would you want p-ray to go there someday?  GO COUGS & ALOHA!"

you probably see wsu stuff all over the blog because i'm a proud {crazed} alumni.  sam & i met at wsu & were married just before our last semester there.  i have nothing but happy memories of pullman & we always try to make it back at least once a year for a football or basketball game.  and?  i may or may not have been known to be a wsu basketball groupie.  no big deal.

would i want p-ray to go there some day?  sure!  if that's the school he chose.  i'd be pretty happy if he chose a division one pac-10 school like wsu.  but i'm pretty sure he's a genius & will be able to go to any school he wants.  we'll see.

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shawntae from a little king & i asked:

"if you won a million dollars, what would you do with it?"

ooooh, i really really hope i am faced with this scenario some day!  half would go to moving my family somewhere warm.... let's say so-cal.  the other half would be saved up so that sam could retire early.  let's say at 40.  boring & responsible?  i don't even care... the thought still makes me giddy.

but first?  i would take my family on a long, warm, australian vacay.  and then maybe we wouldn't come back.
meh, being responsible isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

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Erinn {via email} asked:

"how do you feel about vaccines?  did you follow the AAP guidelines, delayed schedule, or defer them altogether?"

alright, i've been a bit nervous about answering this one.  i want to give an opinionated yet non-controversial answer.  is that possible?  here goes.

in short:  i'm pro-vaccines.  i feel strongly that vaccinations have saved lives & have dang-near eradicated some pretty scary illnesses.  illnesses that i sure wouldn't want p-ray getting.  however, when given a choice, i always opt to give parker as few vaccines as possible at once.  if i'm given the option, i'll do some vaccines at his well-baby check up & then come back in a month for the rest.  i've heard of some babies getting six vaccines at once, & i feel like that is totally unnecessary.  parker's never had more than two or three at a time.

in summary?  vaccinate.  measles & mumps are not words i want to be in parker's vocabulary.

{four day old parker ray}

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ok, that's it for now!  i'll answer more questions next monday.  if you have questions, go ahead & ask 'em in the comments or send me an email & i will try to answer them in the order they've been asked.  i'll just keep on doing these posts on mondays as long as i have questions to answer!

thanks friends.

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