I was tagged for a 7 fact Meme by Jen.

Here are the rules:

• List the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

1. My hubby was only my second serious “grown-up” boyfriend.  I was never much for dating–to be quite honest I was horrible at dating.  I just never really saw the point.  Thank goodness I am very happily married, or I am sure I would be forever single. 
2. I am working toward my doctorate in Education and hope to revolutionize the way we teach teachers to teach writing and the way we use writing as a tool for learning in schools.  I am very passionate about it–don’t ask me about it unless you want a really really long rant. 
3. I am a closet writer–in the sense that I long to have a novel published.  I use to write quite consistently before I began a career in teaching and mothering.  Now I don’t write much, but I am constantly thinking of new story ideas and planning on when I really have (make) time for writing. 
4. I will be 37 in 4 weeks and am just now beginning to feel old.  Yet, I still feel like a kid and often forget exactly how old I am.  When people ask me how old I am I often have to think very long and hard about it before I give an answer and sometimes my answer is still wrong. 
5. I love to dance and love to sing.  But I am so bad at both of these things that I cannot risk doing them in public.  I do them in the privacy of my own home and even now my son often tells me to stop singing.  It is sad when a two-year-old tells you to stop singing. 
6. I love to cook and am quite talented at it when I have the time.  I am not chef creative, but I can pick out a recipe and make it my own and make it delicious.  I love to entertain with good food and good wine (another obsession of mine…good wine.  I love good wine and refuse to drink anything but).  I wish I had more time to cook and more time for entertaining.  But half of the time, I can’t even get dressed before noon–so entertaining is not really an option at this point.  One day. 
7. I love country music and listen to almost nothing but that (except the occasional kids music cd–you know the ones that make you want to poke someone’s eyes out).  I wish I had time or the inclination to listen to more up to date music, but I don’t.  I have lots of music from the 80’s and 90’s that I still listen to in addition to country but no real new music.  I wouldn’t even know where to start and before you ask, yes I do have itunes. 

Well, there you have 7 things about me.  It was hard to do and I wanted to do some things that were not things I write about often.  I am not a good finisher of things—which means I very rarely tag people to do the memes I have been tagged to do.  So, if you are reading and you are so inclined to reveal 7 things about yourself do so and leave me a comment and link in the comment to your seven amazing facts.