Know and Tell Friday

It's Friday, and you know what that means! Time to get to know each other better!

You might want to make sure you're fully awake when you answer this week's questions. I say this from experience. Heather, living in Oregon and the Pacific time zone, was dozing in her chair as she began this post late Thursday night. Reese, in England and in the Western European time zone, was bleary-eyed with sleep when she finished it several minutes later on Friday morning.

I meant to mention this last week, but for those of you that do not have a blog but would still like to participate, please do so in our comments section.

Here are this week's questions:

1. What one item in the kitchen best describes you and your personality?

2. What’s your favorite concert you’ve ever attended?

3. If Jesus was standing in front of you, in the flesh, what one question would you ask him?

4. What super-power would you most like to have, and why?

5. If you had $5 million to spend in 5 days, but couldn't spend any of it on yourself or your family, what would you do with it?

6. What is your favorite kind of ice cream?

7. Do you hit snooze when the alarm goes off, or do you get up right away?

Heather’s Answers:

1. What one item in the kitchen best describes you and your personality? Man..this is hard! I have to think on it, but will figure something out.

2. What's your favorite concert you've ever attended? I have been to several Michael W. Smith concerts and they are awesome!

3. If Jesus was standing in front of you, in the flesh, what one question would you ask him? That is hard. I think selfishly, I have a lot of “why” questions.

4. What super-power would you most like to have, and why? Is mind reading a super power? I would love to read other people’s minds. Then I would know what my husband and children are thinking all the time

5. If you had $5 million to spend in 5 days but couldn’t spend any of it on yourself or your family, what would you do with it? That’s easy. With half of the money, I would build orphanages and give it to families wanting to adopt but didn’t have the money. I would put the other half into Menkes research.

6. What is your favorite kind of ice cream? This answer is two-fold. I’m not an ice cream eater, but my favorite all time ice cream is rocky road, with real marshmallows (not marshmallow cream). The second part of my answer is I love gelato. That may be more of an emotional thing, but I had it outside the Pantheon in Rome, and it was absolutely amazing! I had peach, and I can’t wait to have it again.

7. Do you hit the snooze when the alarm goes off, or do you get up right away? I am most definitely a snooze hitter. I hit it every five minutes for ½ an hour before finally climbing out of bed.

Reese's Answers:

1. What one item in the kitchen best describes you and your personality? The electric mixer. At times I prefer to stand apart, quietly in the corner, unnoticed. At other times, I long to be the center of attention, doing my thing with ease. Sometimes, I get ahead of myself, out of my league, out of control, and make a mess of things.

2. What’s your favorite concert you’ve ever attended? None in particular come to mind. I loved Jesus Northwest as a teenager; it had many great concerts. I attended a Third Day concert once in Portland that was great. The best is yet to come though: some day I'll see Harry Connick, Jr in concert!

3. If Jesus was standing in front of you, in the flesh, what one question would you ask him? What motivated him to create the world and people. Zach asked me that a few days ago and I came up short. I always tell him that God created people to know Him and to help others to know Him. But when he asked the question "Why did God make the world?" I didn't have an answer? Just for fun?

4. What super-power would you most like to have, and why? It depends on the moment. When I'm in one room and the kids are acting up in another (or when I'm driving), I'd sure like to be like ElastiGirl. Then I could solve the problem without leaving my seat. On the other hand, invisibility, like ElastiGirl's daughter Violet had, would be cool too. Not sure what I'd do with that one... Probably ride the school bus with the kids so I can see what's actually going on there! (There's some discrepancy between my kids' stories.)

5. If you had $5 million to spend in 5 days, but couldn't spend any of it on yourself or your family, what would you do with it? I'd donate 1 million to Right To Life, 1 million to the Children's Hopechest, 1 million to relief for Burma, 1 million to Chinese earthquake survivors, half-a-million to my church, and the last half-million to ministries in my hometown.

6. What is your favorite kind of ice cream? (I need a list for this one!)

• I had the most amazing ice cream ever last weekend: candied ginger and chocolate! SO good! I could eat it every day.
• I also loved Haagen Dazs Mayan Chocolate, which is cinnamon and chocolate. I plan to make that in my ice cream maker this summer.
• Green tea ice cream is interesting, as was the rose ice cream I had at a Lebanese restaurant once.
• Heather recommended Cold Stone Creamery in Portland, so when I was there last year I had birthday cake ice cream which was divine!
  
• My favorite less-exotic ice cream is Phish Food.

7. Do you hit snooze when the alarm goes off, or do you get up right away? I'm a snooze-hitter, but I only hit it once or twice on most days. Then I drift into a deep sleep until a kid wakes me up.

Your turn! Can't wait to read your answers!

(For Denise and Jodi... sorry, I forgot to use Mr Linky! Here he is.)