Show me someone who is completely normal and I will show you someone who is boring.
We all have our quirky and strange habits. They are what make each of us unique. Kids have some of the best quirks around if you ask me. L is at the age right now where everything has to be matching. She wants to wear pink from head to toe, with no regard as to whether or not the pinks actually coordinate. If you look at the picture of our felt Easter eggs, you’ll see that she was putting the light pink dots in the light pink egg…because they match of course.
T was the same way at that age and has since learned to appreciate the beauty of colors and items that coordinate without exactly matching. Well, she does for the most part.
T During her ‘Rocker Chic’ phase.
To the husband and me, T’s biggest quirk is her lack of interest in princess movies, despite boasting nearly the entire Disney collection. For a while, she enjoyed watching Sleeping Beauty but we later found out it was because of the scene when Maleficent is a dragon.
Someday we’ll find out what strange habits E will possess, and I’m looking forward to it. Will he be all about trains? Garbage trucks? Monsters? Will he like princesses more than his sisters?
As for me, perhaps it’s my lack of organization, even though disorganization makes me anxious. With three kids and a house too small for all our stuff, I spend a lot of time being anxious. It’s not that I mean to be disorganized. I just haven’t yet found a system that works for the whole family. Some things work…well they do for certain family members. But what about the others? It’s enough to drive a person mad.
Then again, the husband might say that one of my quirks is the how many browser tabs and application Windows I have open at once. (It’s not uncommon for me to have 10 or 20 tabs open at a time…and you’d better not close or rearrange them!) My mind bounces around from one task to another, and there is a certain order to the chaos. It’s my workflow and it works for me.
Or he might mention my former ability to look at a grocery cart and provide a fairly accurate estimate of the price for everything in the cart within seconds. However, that particular quirky skill went out the window with increasing grocery prices and the introduction of kids to our family.
So many characteristics could be considered quirks or strange habits. All I know is that I wouldn’t be me without them. As long as I never take myself too seriously, and am willing to laugh at these oddities, then life will be just fine.
This post was written in response to the March prompt for the Who I Am Project hosted by Dana at Kiss My List. This month’s prompt was to write about our quirks and strange habits.
What is one of your quirks or strange habits?
Do you have any quirks you would want to change?
Dana says
Talking about your kids’ quirks made me wish I had documented more of my own kids’ – my daughter wasn’t really into princesses either, although they didn’t get really popular until she was a little older. I can relate to the multiple tabs being open – I open all the blogs I want to read and won’t close the tab until I’ve read and commented! It’s a digital to-do list, I think.
Thanks for joining us again, Leslie!
Leslie says
I’m not sure we can document all of our kids’ quirks and cute behaviors. I try to do that here every now and then, but there are still some things that slip through. It’s so funny about the princess thing…it just goes to show that girls don’t have to like princesses to be girly!
Tamara says
That maleficent quirk is so funny!
I actually made a list of some of mine to do a post and lost it! I’m so disappointed. I’m certain I had my extreme obsession with rainbow sprinkles on there.
Leslie says
Oh, no! I suppose you could always start again. And what’s not to love about rainbow sprinkles?
Lauren says
I feel you with the number of windows! My husband teases me about how many applications/programs I run at all times. And the fact that every year I decide we should grow a vegetable garden on our balcony, and it never comes to fruition. (No pun intended.) I finally got some herbs to grow though, so…progress!
Leslie says
Yay for the new herbs! I hope they turn out great for you!
Nina says
I love recording my kids’ funny quirks. It makes them each so unique and so different from one another. I also have my own weird quirks. For instance, I used to think if I drive past a stoplight before it turning yellow, then that was lucky. I also eat my burgers in a circle, starting from the outer edges and working my way toward the middle. And I do the same with my cereal! I’ll rotate the cereal around so that they’re all “even” lol!
Jen says
I like quirky and I like your family’s quirkiness! The Maleficent dragon scene was her favorite, now that is funny! That picture of your sleeping baby with his hands behind his head is adorable!
I wish I could tell the price of my grocery cart just by looking at it! That is like a super power skill, not a quirk. I wonder if that super power will come back to you? And right now I have exactly 11 tabs open!
Leslie says
I wish I could still look at my cart and get a pretty accurate estimate! It was definitely a fun thing to be able to do. 11 tabs isn’t too bad. I was good today and now only have 5 tabs open, 12 programs and VMWare.
Kenya G. Johnson says
Love that quote. I’m going to have to start referring to myself as being a limited edition. Your daughters quirky outfit is so cute. In a weird way, it matches. I too have many things open. Just this morning I came back to my post as it was nearly finished last night. It was nearly finished in two browsers. This morning I saved the wrong one. It almost made me say forget it about this linkup but I’m on a roll with the third on.
I just counted. I have 10 programs open, three browers in safari and three in chrome.
Leslie says
Three tabs in each isn’t bad at all! I usually have at least 10. It’s having a virtual machine and adobe open constantly that kills my computer!
Lizzi says
Those rainbow leopard-print tights are GORGEOUS, and long may your little girl appreciate the beauty of clothes which don’t quite match (themselves, or anything around them).
The grocery-bill-estimtating-thing is pretty cool 🙂
Leslie says
The tights were a personal favorite. L now refers to them as her “fancy” tights. T has a knack for pulling off the matched-but-mismatched combination. We’re still working on it with the 3-year-old. She came out the other day after dressing herself up in a skirt and a pink football jersey that was on backward. Instead of correcting her, I just took a picture and let her be proud. 😛
Mo says
Embrace our weirdness, right? I am chronically guilty of the many tabs open at a time thing. Unfortunately, my cranky old Mac is not a fan of this quirk and lets me know it by shutting down unexpectedly. Not cool….
Leslie says
Yes, my cranky young Mac has been known to do the same thing. The Husband keeps telling me that I should’ve gotten a Macbook Pro instead of a Macbook Air. Either way I’m sure I could find a way to stress the system!
Bev says
One of my words for the year is Calm, and part of that has to do with my physical space since I often feel like things are disorganized. We too live in a tiny place and when things aren’t in their places I feel super anxious! I also tend to have way too many browser tabs open though now it really slows down my computer so I’m getting better about that 😉
Thanks for linking up!
Leslie says
Calm is a wonderful word! I’m the same way…which is weird because I’m just not a tidy person by nature. Thanks for co-hosting!