About Me

  • About Me: I am a wife, mother and poet. I am a tutor for at-risk kids. I love being by the sea more than anything but that is impossible since I left my roots in North Carolina and moved to North Dakota. I have 4 wonderful children, mostly all grown now. I love country music, going for a cafe au lait, Barnes and Nobles, ice cream, flower gardens, and reading.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: House, Intervention, CMT Top 20 Countdown, Crossroads, Extreme Home Makeover, Anderson Cooper 360
  • Favorite Channels: Discovery, CMT, TLC, HGTV, CNN
  • Favorite Reruns: Dr. Phil
  • Most Addictive Show: Intervention
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: Jon Stewart
  • Favorite Episode: Byron Dorgan on Jon Stewart
  • Characters you relate to: Annie Hall
  • Favorite Theme Song: ER
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Oprah

More About Me

  • Nationality: American as apple pie ETHNICITY: Belguim, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Spanish; my great-grandparents were immigrants
  • Religion: Catholic
  • Heroes: Mother Teresa
  • Interests: watching a storm out at sea, art, cats, botany, chemistry, physics, postcards, bluegrass music, travel, mystery books, teaching, my faith, and my family
  • Expertise: moving: I have lived in ND, NC, VA, WV, FL, and Cambodia
  • Occupation: Education/training
  • Industry: Education/Research

Style

  • Where I shop: thrift stores, vintage shops
  • Brands I love: Levi's
  • I like to wear: jeans and t-shirts and bare feet
  • Can't live without: warm socks, this is NORTH DAKOTA!
  • Prized Possessions: a beautiful blue evening gown I played dress-up in when I was 8 and played with my mother
  • Guilty Pleasure: bracelets

Travel

  • Places I love: the Atlantic beach
  • Places I've been: Outer Banks, West Indies, Cambodia
  • Places to see before I die: Ireland, Italy, and Spain
  • Dream Vacation: cruise

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Scrabble, Family Feud, and Mah Jong

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Sicilian
  • Favorite Dishes: Sicilian meat rolls and pasta with portabella mushrooms
  • Favorite Desserts: ice cream cake
  • Favorite Drinks: sparkling water
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Dove dark chocolates
  • Best meal ever: Thanksgiving 2006: turkey, pasta with asparagus tips, cranberry sauce, crescent rolls, and Asti Spumonte
  • My Original Recipes: Mom's famous peanutbutter cookies
  • Favorite Restaurants: Texas Roadhouse and Johnny Carino's
  • Foods I hate: rootbeer floats

Books

  • Favorite Books: Tess of D'Uberville, Last of the Mohicans, How Green was My valley, St. John of the Cross, The Hobbit
  • Favorite Authors: Robert Frost, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jon Hassler, Thomas Hardy, Sue Grafton
  • Favorite Genres: fiction, mystery, biography, autobiography
  • Favorite Characters: Tess
  • Favorite Quotes: work, work, no dare to shirk ....round, round underground...
  • Recent Reads: Wringer

katiesmom

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    • Name: katiesmom
    • Country: United States
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 9/24/2002
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Memories (1)

  • katiesmom
    It was late at night and there was a storm out at sea. I stood at the end of the pier, alone and in the darkness, feeling the wind and rain across my face and watching the lightning flash out over the sea.

Chatboard (14)

  • Hareton
    thank you for your subscription.
    • Posted 4/14/2008 9:56 PM
    • by Hareton
  • Julisen
    Hey! I saw that you subscribed to me. Can I subscribe back? (I always ask before I subscribe to someone. :) )
    • Posted 8/19/2007 5:26 PM
    • by Julisen
  • katiesmom
    Nope.
  • CEC32
    Under "Nationality" you listed several. Most everybody else only has one. So, do you hold passports from all of those countries?
    • Posted 8/14/2007 8:05 AM
    • by CEC32
  • katiesmom
    Hi Katie... is it really 98 degrees today?
  • psychoticfrog
    Yes she will, she's so much better at this than I am.
  • MamaLambNC
    Hi! It's me again....I believe you ask me where i get my blinkies? I just typed in blinkies in a yahoo search & grabbed the ones that I liked. I have an account photobucket.com & save them there. Then put them on my page from there. LOL! Hope that helps some...Blessings, Patty
  • MamaLambNC
    Hi! It's Patty....Thanks for commenting on my site. I've figured out quite a bit of stuff.What gets me is alll the switchingfrom one section to another. But it's gonna be great once they iron the wrinkles out, huh? Take a look & tell me what you think. Blessings, Patty
  • katiesmom
    I worked hard ( on my day off ) to change my slide show. I think I like it better this way... maybe
  • Julisen
    Haha. Well, I do like the picture slideshow, and the picture of the girl feeding the gulls. Reminds me of when I used to do that when I would visit my great-grandmother's house. (She lived on the Gulf.) ^.^
    • Posted 6/7/2007 9:54 PM
    • by Julisen