Glory Days

Today’s Bits & Pieces has us going back…

To high school.

1) Did you get a class ring? Do you know where it is?

2) A school activity you were involved in (either athletic or otherwise)?

3) Class you despised the most and why?

4) Most beloved class?

5) A major history event that occured while you were in high school?

~Elizabeth

Spring

Despite the fact that we’re caught in a weather pattern that seems to be resisting spring more than not, I’m ready.  So I’m going to live my needed spring vicariously through today’s Bits & Pieces…

1) When spring first arrives to wherever you live, what’s one of the first things you always want to do?

2) Favorite spring  flower?

3) Is there a food you equate with springtime?

4) Favorite bird?

~Elizabeth

Sleepover or Giggle-over?

Three of the four kids have off today as the teachers in the district are “grading state tests.”  I put that in quotes because I’m thinking it has more to do with the fact they only used one snow day this year.

Anyway, the day off made for a perfect friend sleepover night for Dear Daughter # 2 (complete with giggles galore). Right now, the two of them are decorating monkey cupcakes.  Aren’t they coming out adorable???

But the sleepover got me thinking about sleepovers I had as a kid. So, you guessed it, it’s a sleepover Bits & Pieces today…

1) Favorite sleepover game from your youth?

2) Ever go home early from a sleepover?

3) Least favorite sleepover game from your youth?

4) What’s the  most kids you ever had sleepover at one time?

~Elizabeth

Differences

Recently, a friend posted on Facebook that she’d just made reservations to go on a whale watching tour with her husband and kids. Immediately, I was clicking the link she shared to check it out for myself (I would love to see a whale up close in the wild). But even as I did, I realized how funny it is that what seems like fun to some, holds absolutely no appeal to others.

With that in mind, I figured I’d do a Bits & Pieces that reveals what we all consider to be fun (if you’ve done any of the following, let us know what you thought)…

1) Zip line or Kayak?

2) Zoo or Dophin encounter?

3) Walk or bike?

4) Explore a cave or mountain climb?

~Elizabeth

Back To School

Yesterday, I took DD # 1 on her first college visit…to a school which had been on my list so many years ago. I thought, when we pulled up, that I’d remember something from my visit there in 1986, but I didn’t. At all.

So it was interesting to hang back and see her opinion on the school. It was even more interesting when she came back with almost the exact same reasons I went from thinking it was my #1 to my # 3 (of 3) way back when.

Which brings me to this week’s B’s & P’s:

1) What made you ultimately choose the college you attended?

2) If you had it to do over again, would you a) choose the same school and b) do anything about your experience differently now?

3) Favorite part of college?

4) Least favorite part of college?

If you didn’t go to college…then feel free to sub in answers about your career choice.

~Elizabeth

Stuff First, Then Bits & Pieces

Most of you who frequent this blog on a regular basis, have seen Dru’s name in the comment section. Dru is an avid reader/reviewer.

Just yesterday, she posted a fabulous review of REAP WHAT YOU SEW that I’d like to share with all of you.  You can read it HERE.

Then, if you’d like, you can check out a guest blog I did for Writerspace where I talked about visiting my former high school. That blog can be found HERE. 

And now, for some Bits & Pieces…

1) Favorite Board Game as a kid?

2) Favorite game now?

3) What one state in the U.S. would you visit right now if you could? Why?

4) While flipping TV channels, what one show from your youth will always make you stop and watch even now?

~Elizabeth

Easter Bits & Easter Pieces

In light of the Easter holiday this weekend, I thought it would be fun to have an almost-totally-chocolate Bits & Pieces…

1) What’s the one Easter-time candy you simply can’t pass without buying?

2) Peeps or no Peeps?

3) Have you ever watched a Peep grow to nearly 5x it’s size in the microwave? C’mon, be honest…

4) Aside from # 1, what other Easter-time candies do you hope the bunny brings?

5) Tell us about your Easter Day traditions…

Finally, on a more serious note, if you celebrate Easter, may it be a wonderful and blessed day for you and yours…

~Elizabeth

**If you’re in the Nashville, TN area, I’ll be having a launch signing tomorrow (Saturday) for REAP WHAT YOU SEW at Mysteries & More in Franklin. For more details, click the “Events” tab at the top of the page!

Short and Sweet

A wee bit under the weather today, so it’s a short Bits & Pieces…

1) Fall or spring?

2) Must-have ice cream topping?

3) Favorite month of the year and why?

~Elizabeth

Going, Going, Gone?

Inspired by an essay Dear Son # 2 has to write (in which he has to choose an item under $500 that he would bury today to be dug up and worth a TON of money in 200 years), I thought maybe I’d make you choose between those things that will soon be obsolete and the current “wave of the future.”  Reasons why, would be fun, too.

Ready?

1) Snail mail or email?

2) A greeting card or an e-card?

3) Telephone or Skype?

4) Regular film or digital?

5) Records or downloadable music?

6) Report cards or print-yourself-grades?

Have fun!

~Elizabeth

Favorites

Today’s Bits & Pieces is all about favorites.

1) Favorite song when you just feel like being happy?

2) Favorite outdoor activity?

3) Favorite treat?

4) Favorite dinner ever?

5) Favorite breakfast ever?

6) Favorite stuffed creature when you were little? (what did you name it?)

~Elizabeth