okay what kind of things do you like to do in your spare time
well uh i have two children so i don't have a whole lot of spare time right now one of the things that i've made time for is uh playing softball
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i really enjoy i enjoy softball but i enjoy all kind of sports i enjoy watching and participating i really like water sports like swimming and skiing but i don't get to do that too often
yeah
and then i i really enjoy sewing but i don't get much of a chance to just really sit down and do much sewing how about you
oh i uh like sports type things too we like to get out and walk and we like the water sports too but like you it's unless you have a pool in your backyard it's kind of hard to get to do that
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i know it it is do you work full time
very often
yeah well part-time we're going to have a baby in July so part of my big hobby has been trying to put together a nursery and all that kind of stuff lately but
part-time
oh
right yeah that definitely takes over your time
yeah it does i've been
is this going to be your first
yes uh-huh i've been doing some cross-stitch for something i wanted to put in the nursery so i haven't done that in years but i've kind of enjoyed that but it's just hard to find the time to sit there and do it and
oh
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yeah
right well that's
it sure is fun to do that kind of thing because then you've got something to show for it
right yeah
yeah that's neat
and i guess i kind of consider shopping a hobby
yeah i do too
i just go out just to just to enjoy it and not really spend money sometimes just look
yeah
yeah
well since i've had kids it's kind of funny i i never really was much of a garage sale shopper until i had kids but you'll probably find after your children get bigger
uh like when they want things like tricycles toys things that cost quite a lot in the store you can find that kind of stuff at garage sales for just a few dollars and
yeah yeah we bought some baby clothes yeah last weekend at a garage sale
yeah oh you can just get all kinds of things and kids especially clothes and toys they just don't use them and wear them you know for that many years or anything
yeah
so i'm i've become a garage sale shopper and it is fun on the weekends i drive around look to see you know who's selling what and i found my little daughter some tap shoes for her tap class and
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oh
just you know all kinds of things like that that you'd probably pay thirty dollars for and i got them for two dollars yeah so
wow yeah
yeah it kind of a hobby it that's time consuming too really to find the things you want sometimes you have to stop a lot of places
yeah
yeah it is it it does take more time but i don't work so uh that's something i've decided i'm going to make sure my kids have a have a happy growing up years and
right yeah i think that's important too i'm not going to work after the baby comes
yeah well
that's good i'm glad
so i guess hopefully i'll have time for more hobbies i do not know
yeah well at first when you first have a baby you uh seems to take every moment of your time partly because you're not used to you know juggling your time around like that but
right
eventually the you'll you'll be doing lots of stuff so
yes
but i think my husband is real into sports too he plays on a TI softball team and a church softball team and by the time he plays two games a week and i play a a game a week we go to lots of softball
wow yeah
but the kids enjoy going because there's usually a lot of other kids for them to play with and we that's getting outside and you know doing things they like to do too so
yeah so that's good a whole family your whole family can enjoy those hobbies
yeah and one other thing we're doing this year is uh we bought Wet and Wild passes
oh
we've never done that before but the kids are always wanting to play in the water and uh like you said unless you have a pool in your backyard or access to a good place to play it's kind of hard
and uh they have real good kiddie areas uh at both of the Wet and Wilds around here so we're planning on going two or three times a week
oh wow that'll make the summer go by in a hurry keep the kids busy
yeah i think it will yeah because my oldest daughter's in school and she gets bored real fast when she's home with nothing to do
right
so i think that'll be a lot of fun
yeah
so we're looking forward to that
yeah um
do you consider yard work a hobby at all or is that just a chore
well when i got married i thought it was going to be fun but my husband and i both i think consider it a chore it's our yard has had so many problems it's completely died out two times
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yeah
oh no
and uh we've had to start all over trying to plant grass and so it's become a chore do you and your husband like to work in the yard
oh well we like it once in a while but not as often as we have to do it i like to put flowers out and you know a few little things like that but as far as mowing every week and finding time to get all that stuff done it gets to be a chore
yeah
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yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah that's true
seems like sometimes hobbies do that they kind of take over and turn into work instead of
yeah well that's how sewing i love to sew and uh i wish i had more time to do it but sometimes i'll get started on a project and then finishing it is more of a chore than
fun
yeah if it doesn't go crite quite right
yeah another thing i enjoy doing is cooking i i like especially it's real strange but i like to cook for other people like i have a friend that's uh pregnant but she can't get up and walk around right now
oh no
so i enjoy you know cooking things to take over to her house or
oh that's nice
yeah it and it's fun for me to do that it's it's something i enjoy doing it's funny though it's like i don't really want to cook for us it's kind of like when you're a kid and and someone else's house was fun to clean but you didn't want to do your own
yeah your how funny i think i'll enjoy cooking more when i'm not working when i don't get home until five thirty or six and i have to cook and clean up it's not it's not fun but i think i'll like it better
yeah
oh yeah
yeah when you're home it's it makes a difference it sure does
yeah
well do you guys go camping or anything like that
uh yeah we've done a little bit of camping we like that it's there again it's just so hard to find time to get away for a whole weekend
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yeah
well that's something we're plan on doing not this weekend but the next my parents go camping a lot
and they invited the kids and my husband and me to go with them and
oh that sounds fun
yeah we're really looking forward to it the girls love it they've been a couple of times and uh just getting to be outside you know all the time and sleep in a tent and that's really fun to them so
yeah
we're looking fo rward to that
well that sounds nice i i think that'll be a good family thing
yeah i think so
to start doing more often if
yeah my uh my husband loves to fish i'm not much into fishing but uh my daughter thinks she wants to learn how to fish so i think it'll be real good for them they can go fishing
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yeah we've camped with some friends who have young children and uh if you can find some place where those little sunfish are right around the shore where they can just pull in a lot
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oh they have so much fun doing that and they think they're really great fishermen because they're catching so many
yeah
yeah yeah
oh i know yeah um she's really looking forward i'm hoping that's another thing though when sometimes your uh
hobbies can interfere with each other because my husband's afraid he's going to have a softball tournament that weekend and i'm saying no no yeah if you're doing a lot of things sometimes you have conflicts and you have to decide what you enjoy the most so
oh yeah skip this tournament
right yeah do you do any other crafts or anything besides just sewing
well not really right now i keep thinking when the kids get bigger and i have a little more time uh i might take up there's i'd love to cross-stitch i think cross-stitching's so pretty but i have never done any
it's not too hard it's i don't think it's as hard as like knitting or crochet or something like that
yeah
yeah
yeah i i crocheted when i was younger it's funny when i was in high school i made a blanket and
but you know i can't even remember how i did it now it's been so long since i did it but
yeah
yeah i started to sweater knit to knit a sweater and i got off on my rows somehow and so what should have been the back all of a sudden was on the front and then i tore it out and threw it down and i i never have
but
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oh yeah
picked it back up again and now i can't remember anything about it
yeah well i did the same thing uh when i was pregnant with my first daughter i was really bored and i bought one of those latch hook rug kits
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oh it was a real pretty rug and i thought well i could use this as a gift or something you know and oh it was so it's beautiful but i did not realize how long it took and i got about three two thirds of it done
and then i just i had the baby and then it was just like i forgot all about it and every once in a while i'll be digging through the closet and i'll find that thing and i'll think oh maybe i ought to get the rest of that out you know and finish it
yeah forget it
yeah
but uh for a while there latch hook rugs were a real big uh hobby it seemed like people did them a lot uh uh people don't do that much anymore so it was something easy i could do
yeah i remember that yeah
yeah yeah they are pretty easy
yeah
well it's been real good talking to you and i hope you enjoy your camping trip
yeah you too
oh thank you and thanks for calling bye-bye
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