I'm a Smartypants!

I am soooo stinkin' proud of this...

I completed a Smartypants Quiz on Pioneer Woman's Site with 100% accuracy AND I was one of the 5 picked for $50 to Amazon! The Boy and I are addicted to her quizzes and do them every time. We do not always complete them and we have only earned a 100% one other time. This one was my favorite because I love art. I was determined to finish it correctly and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out #5. A. Lot. of. Time. Let's say, nothing else got done around my house that morning/mid-morning/early afternoon (Evidenced by the fact that I was the 256th person to comment and the first one to get a 100% was 23rd! She is really a Smartypants!) The Boy kept walking by the computer saying, "Still trying to figure that one out, huh?" When I finally completed it, I was proud. It was like a refresher crash course in art history (one of my very favorite college classes) in one day. I knew 5/8 of them without looking them up, but had to be sure. (Why yes, I am bragging. Do you have a problem with that?)

I've been waiting days for her to post the winners. She thought she had posted the answers and winners already and has been wondering why people keep asking. She hadn't and we kept waiting anxiously.

When I saw my name this afternoon, I started screaming! (Yes, I am pitiful. Do you have a problem with that?). Kids came running to be sure I was alright. I explained the moment to them. They stared at me, mouths gaping, eyes blinking. I said, "Uh... Ok, I won $50!" They suddenly grasped the concept and started cheering with me and telling me what they'd like. I sent them out of the room. Then I called Best Life, who reads Pioneer Woman and would know what I was talking about. She did the happy dance with me and bowed to me through the phone (Yes, I am that proud of this accomplishment. Do you have a problem with that?) THEN I called My Sweetie. Told him to track down The Boy on camp, wherever he was, whatever he was doing, and tell him Mama was a winner in the Smartypants Quiz. I knew he would be proud of and happy for me. He was. Good boy.

I've had a list of books waiting that I want to buy to do a Texas wildlife unit with the kids this summer. So, this is the answer to the funding request I was going to have to make before I even had to approach the curriculum committee of our homeschool. The committee is a real tightwad. The committee is really cute and all, but tends to raise eyebrows and dash hopes for homeschooling books unless they are absolutely necessary. Really a wet blanket for a teacher who loves books. Seriously. You don't want to know how many books are in this house. I'll just say the movers kept asking where the books go and the committee keeps asking how many we really need.

Anyway, that's the really big news from my little place in the world today: I'm a Smartypants and am now semi famous (not really at all, but it's possible that thousands of people will see my blog name today and that's close enough... yes, she has that many readers) in the blogosphere.

Feel free to feel proud to know me! (No, I'm not serious. Well... ok, I am. Do you have a problem with that?)