DH and I are both primarily Swedish by heritage. We first heard the name Aine (Irish spelling, I believe) watching some pioneer series they aired on PBS. Years later we found that there is a Swedish spelling, and we both fell in love with the name. While Anja is a little more common ‘round these parts than Aine, we still get many mispronunciations, the most common being “Ann-yuh” and “Ahn-juh.” It is, in fact, pronounced “Ahn-yuh,” for the record. The poor dear will be correcting people for most of her life, I’m afraid, but she’ll be correcting them on her last name, anyway, so it’s not like we added too much to her woes.
Card Architecture November 23, 2007
Maybe I should’ve done this with my degree.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/11/14/card.stacking/index.html#cnnSTCOther1
I’m thankful for… November 22, 2007
- Jesus
- Books
- My husband
- My daughter
- Blankets (one in particular)
- Christmas music
- Food (namely cookies)
- “Dancing with the Stars”
- Disposable diapers
- Good friends who still like me
- Two good eyes
- Ribbons and glitter
- Cookies (did I mention them already?)
I wanted to write something more in-depth, but it got late…
My first post. Ever. November 7, 2007
So, I finally got a blog. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading blogs. I have several that I visit almost daily. It’s just that I never, ever envisioned myself having one. I think I have long categorized blogs as something for the insecure and friend-hungry. “Looky—I don’t have any friends and I really want someone to know me, so here’s my life, plastered all over this page for anyone to see!”
However, after finding some blogs that I really, really liked that didn’t have the feel of online diaries, I decided that I would take the plunge. Hello, Heidi. Welcome to 2003. 
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