Yours Mine and Ours

Personality Quirks - a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.

His

If we pull up to a drive through window to order food and we don’t know what we want, Michael will pull away and wait until we know what we want before pulling back up even if there is no one behind us!

Michael chews on his tongue when he is thinking or anxious about something.

Michael is very particular about how he dresses, he has to make sure his shirt buttons, belt and pants line up – they call this the gig line in the military.

Michael has to cut the lawn on a 45 degree angle or it drives him nuts!

If Michael gets an email he has to answer it – it feels like a time bomb to him from the time it arrives in his inbox – so he has to respond!!

Mine

I have an irrational fear of Salmonella and E-coli… after preparing meat I have to wipe down all the kitchen surfaces with a Clorox wipe, scrub the sinks with soft scrub bleach, and wipe down the stove with 409... Michael assures me that even if we did have Salmonella on a piece of chicken it’s not going to jump across the room to the other counter.

I make up songs and sing about everything to and about Aiden.

I am extremely process oriented – I have a process for everything, including cleaning the house! I start with the kitchen sink, then the stove, then the counter tops, etc….

I can’t stand to backtrack!! I get severe anxiety when I think we have backtracked.

I don’t like to wear shoes. I take them off as soon as we get home, I kick them off in the car, at my desk, I walk around our yard without shoes. When we pick Aiden up from my mom’s I am bare foot.