MOTW - Sept 30 - Oct 6 2012 - Faith

[Jenste]

Congratulations to this weeks MOTW - Faith!

Can't wait to learn more about you!

[Faith]

Aww ty! It's an honor

[Jenste]

Monday, tell us all about you! We know you obviously like amphibians, but we want to know about the rest of your life. Details about you, your life, hobbies, families, past times, favorite colors, poems you have written etc etc....just use this post to brag/boast/bore us how you please.

[Jenste]

Tuesday, tell us about your amphibians. How you came to keep them, mistakes/learning curves, species kept, breedings, how you found Frog Forum etc....we heard enough about you on Monday, let us hear about them frogs!

[Sasha]

Congrats Faith!

[Heatheranne]

Congrats!

[Faith]

So sorry about yesterday, it's a busy busy week for me!

Monday:
So let's see, about me. I'll try not to put y'all to sleep I'm a 24 year old working mom. Two sons - Aiden & Peyton. I always swore I'd never have kids but they definitely opened my eyes to the joys of being a parent (and helped me grow up quite a bit!) I work from home, which I think is a blessing in itself. I worked outside of the home when my 6 y/o was a baby and missed out on so much. I work for Zynga, a game company on Facebook (yes, those annoying Ville games you get requests for all the time, lol.) I moderate their forums and write guides for their games - I really enjoy doing the work and all that comes with that. Married to my best friend Michael. Met him when I was 15, started dating at 17 (he asked me out on my birthday) and finally tied the knot on my 22nd birthday (yes, he made sure all 3 had the same date, cop out for him if you ask me, lol.) We recently bought our new home. It's in town, in the woods. Hard to explain but we have a private drive that leads to nothing but trees and we carved out a hole right in the middle. It took us over a year to get it all worked out (right-aways are a PITA) but it was so worth it. I enjoy photography (not good at it but I still do it), scrap booking, watching horror movies of any kind (the cheesier the better) and cooking. I was selected as an All Star for the website AllRecipes last month so recently I've spent a lot of time trying out new recipes for them (my family doesn't complain, its more food.) Besides my amphibians, I have a Siberian Husky, Hermes, who we adopted from a friend who could no longer afford to feed him and two kitties that were both rescued from two different highways that they were abandoned on (Daisy and Donald.) We actually adopted Donald yesterday, which is why you're getting this today

Tuesday:
On to my amphibians. My love for them started a long time ago. I don't know what it was but as a kid, I wasn't into all the fuzzy, cute pets that my friends had. I grew up on a farm and watched many of my 'pets' get turned into bacon, so maybe that had something to do with it. I knew no one would turn my frogs into food (well...hopefully not.) Anyways, as I posted in my blog, I used to tend to the local tadpoles around my parent's home on a hunting club. Puddles up there would be full of water one day and bone dry the next. So I'd put as much tadpoles as I could in our old swimming pool to let the frogs mature and go on back into the woods. Drove my parents crazy (to this day there are tons of frogs around their home) but I loved being able to help. I didn't get my own frogs (well, toads) until almost two months ago. After some bad experiences raising a chameleon and iguana (I bought them impulsively as a teen and lost one who escaped and another who was blinded by crickets), I waited until I was well informed and had a vivarium all set up to buy my fire bellied toads. This forum helped me decide what I wanted and the best way to raise them (found it the night I decided to get a frog/toad - Yahoo search did me a big favor that night!) So far, all has been doing good. They're thriving, happy (well, at least they look it lol!) and well taken care of. My boys love them and are dying to get a pacman frog next (but that won't happen until we know the budget will suffice.)

[Sasha]

OMG, you enable my addiction! CafeWorld is like a part-time job sometimes. I could be dead tired, but no...I have to 20 more minutes until "grandma's meatloaf" needs to come off the stoves!!! LOL! Sounds fun to work for a company that makes social media games, and you can work from home that's awesome!

[Faith]

lol! I used to be hooked on it myself. It is an awesome job. The only down side is after a year, you have to take a 3 month hiatus (something with CA labor laws...I've long tried to quit understanding it, heh.) Sometimes its rough working from home (never a break from cleaning, cooking and the kids!) but I love it. I'm over Castleville and The Ville's forums. Used to do Frontierville but got moved earlier this year.

[Jenste]

Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.

[Heatheranne]

Hi Faith! Great to get to know you some more. Great pictures too!

[Faith]

Thanks Heather!

[Heatheranne]

You're welcome .