Frequently Asked Questions
I don’t actually get a lot of questions. But if I saw me at the store and I had secretly been reading my blog, I think I might have some questions.
Q.) Are you really as awesome as it looks like you think you are?
A.) Yes.
Q.) Don’t you think that’s a little conceited?
A.) No. I think more people should be able to say, “I am honestly an awesome person”. God made me (and He made you too). The last thing I’m going to do is tell Him that His work is anything less than awesome.
Q.) What’s with your blog title? What makes Eric so special?
A.) The eight years that I have spent as Eric’s wife have so far honestly been some of the most challenging and exhilarating years of my life. I am almost daily faced with the choice to serve God or to serve self. Eric is just as fabulous as he is fallible. He gives me good reason for hurt feelings sometimes and it is my charge and pleasure as God’s daughter to show Eric mercy just as Christ does for me. The only rival to Eric’s fabulous fallibility is my own. I am also the recipient of Eric’s mercy on more occasions than I care to recount. This has a way of forming me into the follower of Christ that I am today and who I will become at 50. I don’t write often about Eric, but I do often write about the journey.
Q.) Why don’t you post recipes and talk often about all the fabulous food you cook while you are wearing that sweet apron?
A.) I cook all day. I do not actually love to cook. It does not refresh my brain. I go on auto pilot when I cook. I don’t hate cooking, it is just not something I enjoy chatting about. Unless I do. And sometimes I do.
Q.) That reminds me: Why are you always in an apron?
A.) My apron is inspired, in part, by Mister Rogers. Do you remember when he came into the room and changed his jacket and shoes? He was tenderly telling all his little viewers, “Notice something is changing? We’re about to change gears.”
My apron gently tells my children and any who come to my home, “WHAT DO YOU WANT!? CAN’T YOU SEE I AM VERY BUSY DOING SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT?”
Q.) For what kinds of work do you wear your apron?
A.) I wear my apron whenever I am doing the work of a homemaker, just like a cop wears a uniform whenever he is copping. It is the uniform of my trade and it is truly my number one must have household tool.
I do not wear it out and about. I have no need for an apron at the grocery, Bible class, or the library. While I don’t wear it in public, when any of the public do see the apron, I think they are reminded of a different era. An era when Moms wore aprons and worked it like a professional.
Q.) We know that blogging doesn’t pay the bills, what does Eric do to keep you living in the lifestyle that you so enjoy?
A.) No matter the product, my Eric is a salesman. It’s in his blood.
Q.) What is the largest number of monkeys you have ever encountered in one location?
A.) Seven.