Q & A Game!

So the blogger crew is doing a question game right now so we can all get to know each other a little bit better. Here's the questions:

1. Tell us something totally unusual about you.
2. Aside from your adoption process, what is your greatest accomplishment this year?
3. What is your favorite holiday?
4. Tell us the most interesting, funny, or embarrassing story from your wedding.
5. Where is your favorite place in the whole world?
6. Aside from your new little one, what are you most looking forward to about your trip to Vietnam? (Or for those who have already gone, what is most memorable for you?)
7. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
8. What is your best character trait?
9. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?
10. How has your adoption process changed you for the better?

Here's my answers:

1. I have designed and built a couple of ten-story buildings. (No kidding, I have a degree in structural engineering and worked on projects around downtown Chicago for almost ten years.)
2. Enjoying my time as a mom to Will. I’ve only been at home full-time for a little over a year, and I am really enjoying a lot of the little things about being a parent.
3. Christmas – I’m a Christmas decorating nut! We go Christmas crazy every year, but it’s really fun, especially now that Will can really enjoy the traditions too.
4. Our reception was outdoors, and it rained for about the first 15 minutes of it. It is a lot of brides’ worst wedding nightmare, but for us, it turned out great. There were 300 people at the wedding, and the ones that were friends of the family but not our nearest and dearest didn’t come to the reception. So, when the rain was over, we really got to spend time with the people we cared most about.
5. Sitting next to my husband in a totally quiet gallery in the Art Institute of Chicago
6. Seeing the gardens in Saigon. My Vietnamese friend keeps telling me how exquisite they are.
7. Homemade peach on the Fourth of July
8. Empathy
9. Sunsets – one of my favorite things about Oklahoma
10. I’m more thankful than I was at the beginning of the year. God’s been reminding me how the whole process is such a gift from Him – not just the child at the end!