About Me

  • About Me: Wife of Jonathan, mother of 4 children ages 6 and under, history buff

Music

  • Favorite Artists: David Wilcox, Alison Krauss
  • Songs for Roadtrips: Billy Joel, Weezer
  • Songs I hate: Afternoon Delight
  • Songs I repeat the most: "You are the woman that I've always dreamed of...."

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Anything Italian or Greek
  • Favorite Desserts: 15-layer lemon cake, Snickerdoodles, chocolate
  • Favorite Drinks: Coke, Ice Water, Lemonade
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Coke, Twinkies, Toaster Strudel, Brownies
  • Best meal ever: It had to be something in Italy
  • Foods I hate: raisins, bananas, olives

Style

  • Where I shop: Old Navy, Land's End, Gap
  • Brands I love: probably Land's End
  • Can't live without: Shorts
  • Guilty Pleasure: Spa Facials...

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Mom
  • Religion: Reformed Christian
  • Interests: British History (Tudor, Victorian, etc.), British Literature (Trollope, Thackerey, Austen, Conan Doyle--too many to list), British TV (the stuff that comes on Masterpiece Theatre--Foley's War, The Pallisers), Am Lit (Wendell Berry), Cooking, Classical Homeschooling, Theology,
  • Expertise: Confederate political and economic involvement in Cuba during the Civil War (it was my thesis topic), bad puns and jokes, 15 Layer Lemon Cake
  • Occupation: Wife to Jonathan, mom
  • Industry: Gastronomic
  • Website: www.xanga.com/erinlandrum

Travel

  • Places I love: England, Scotland, Italy
  • Places I've been: Italy, Scotland, Germany, England, Switzerland, Alabama, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
  • Places to see before I die: Italy again
  • Dream Vacation: Taking Jonathan to Edinburgh then to Italy to see the Spanish Steps (most romantic place to me in Europe).

Books

  • Favorite Books: Valley of Vision, Company of the Creative
  • Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Watson
  • Favorite Genres: Victorian, practically anything British
  • Favorite Characters: Levin in Anna Karenina

College

  • School Name: Louisiana Tech University
  • Status: Grad
  • Attended: 1994 - 2001
  • Degree type: Masters
  • Major(s): History
  • Minor(s): English