This is a “survey” that I saw on someone elses blog and I thought it was cute. So I tailored it to suite us and asked our children the questions. Here are their answers, unchanged from their mouths (my commentary is in green):
1.What is something Mom always says to you?
Maacah: Don’t do that!
Grace: No Highlights on the computer.
Isaac: Obey.
Malachi: Please stop.
2.What makes Mom happy?
Maacah: When I obey.
Grace: When I help her.
Isaac: Obeying
Malachi: When I’m quiet.
3. What makes Mom sad?
Maacah: When I disobey.
Grace: Not obeying.
Isaac: Disobey.
Malachi: When I don’t be quiet. (HA!)
4. How does your Mom make you laugh?
Maacah: She says funny things.
Grace: By tickling me.
Isaac: Doing funny things.
Malachi: Asks me questions.
5. What was your Mom like as a child?
Maacah: I have no idea.
Grace: I don’t know.
Isaac: Little.
Malachi: Just like Nathaniel.
6. How old is your Mom?
Maacah: 30
Grace: 30
Isaac: I don’t know.
Malachi: 3.
7. How tall is your Mom?
Maacah: 5′ 2”
Grace: 2 feet? I don’t know.
Isaac Really tall. Taller than me.
Malachi: 5 inches. (Yep, that’s me. The smallest Mom ever!)
8. What is Mom’s favorite thing to do?
Maacah: Laundry. (? I’m not sure where she gets that from.)
Grace: Do puzzles.
Isaac: School.
Malachi: Not going into the kitchen.
9. What does your Mom do when you’re not around?
Maacah: Sewing, on the computer, or going to the doctors. (The doctors?)
Grace: That’s a hard question.
Isaac: Nothing. (I wish!)
Malachi: Do something.
10. If your Mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
Maacah: Being a queen.
Grace: I don’t know what that means.
Isaac: I don’t know.
Malachi: Builds a house.
11. What is your Mom really good at?
Maacah: Sewing and laundry.
Grace: Being a Mom.
Isaac: Cooking.
Malachi: Cleaning.
12. What is your Mom not very good at?
Maacah: Working with wood.
Grace: Working. Daddy’s good at working, but you’re not.
Isaac: Working.
Malachi: I don’t know.
(Hmm, is there a pattern here or is it just me?)
13. What does your Mom do for a job?
Maacah: Work with children.
Grace: Work at home.
Isaac: Stay home and watch the kids.
Malachi: Take care of me.
14.What is your Mom’s favorite food?
Maacah: Chile Renos.
Grace: Grapefruit. (Huh?)
Isaac: Mushrooms.
Malachi: Eggs.
15. What makes you proud of your Mom?
Maacah: Her cooking.
Grace: That God gave you to be my Mom.
Isaac: She lets us play games.
Malachi: Talks about everything.
16. What is your Mom’s favorite thing about being a Mom?
Maacah: Having children.
Grace: Taking are of us.
Isaac: Growing up.
Malachi: Taking care of me.
17. What do you and your Mom do together?
Maacah: Talk and sew.
Grace: Read a story.
Isaac: Play and read and do school with me.
Malachi: Go at the play ground.
18. How are you and your Mom the same?
Maacah: We are in the same family.
Grace: Same color hair.
Isaac: We are both light skinned.
Malachi: Because we both talk.
19. How are you and your Mom different?
Maacah: Different personalities.
Grace:.I don’t wear glasses.
Isaac: Because I wear pants and shirt and you wear dresses. And you have babies, I don’t. (Too funny!!)
Malachi: I don’t know.
20. How do you know your Mom loves you?
Maacah: Because she acts like she loves me and she feeds me and she does stuff that shows me she love me.
Grace: Because she smiles at me.
Isaac: By your kindness.
Malachi: Because you spank me. (Oh boy!)
23. What does your Mom like most about your Dad?
Maacah: You tell me.
Grace: When he tickles your feet.
Isaac: I don’t know.
Malachi: I don’t know.
22. Where is your Mom’s favorite place to go?
Maacah: In Wausau, that Mexican place and the Chinese place.
Grace: Out to eat.
Isaac: Chinese.
Malachi: To a restaurant.
(My children certainly know me here!)