Yes, yes, yes, I know it has been ridiculously long since I have posted. I have NO idea how my life got SO crazy and SO overbooked this fall, but when I looked at the calendar on September 1st and saw October was also almost all booked up, I knew I was in trouble!! Somehow soccer, Bible study, MOPS, Homeschool Ministry, along with the regular demands of a husband and 4 children, got the best of me and kind of sent me into survive, divide, and conquer mode.
The good news is soccer for the 4 & 5 year old is OVER (NOTE: I will NEVER again sign up for a volunteer organization for sports for little people. It is one thing to plan a end of season party for a team of 13-16 older kids. Something else ENTIRELY when you are put in charge of planning a party for an ENTIRE squad of teams of 5-13 year olds! I WILL pay the extra $20 per kid to have someone just teach my kids to play and arrange games. SO worth it! Lesson learned!!)
Bible study is great, a chance once a week to engage in intelligent conversation with like-minded women over an AMAZING study by Beth Moore! ALL good!
MOPS is off and running and all the planning and meetings and brainstorming is paying off in a great group of women enjoying an AWESOME time together a few times a month! WIN!!
Homeschool ministry re-registered plenty of members who REALLY want to be part of what is happening, our complete Electives re-work has been a roaring success, and we are halfway through hosting 65 kids on Fridays for a virtual trip through 5 countries. Moms and kids all seem to be enjoying it, and, best of all, we are SHARING the workload! In our CO-OP!! IMAGINE!!! WIN!!
Of course, after everything started settling down the past week or so, we all started dropping like flies from a cold/allergy/Swine Flu mess that has tagged each of us. Everyone except Norman is on the mend - he just really got it yesterday, so he has another couple days, but we all have had a quiet and mellow week and a half and are on the mend. All is well!!
I always find these things on Facebook interesting, so for those of you who have not yet given into that amazing timesuck, uh, social network, here are a few of those "All About Me" things that got passed to me and I completed. Posted for your entertainment and enjoyment!
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Getting to Know You Better ('nother darned quiz that's making the rounds)
Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 11:12am |
Getting to know you better!
If you've been tagged or you are reading this, you have the honor of copying all these goofy questions, writing your own response, and tagging 25 others. You have to tag me so really you just need 24 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your title as "Getting to know each other!", tag 25 people including me (tagging is done in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
1. What time did you get up this morning? 3:45am (my "late" day!)
2. How do you like your steak? medium-well
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Tale of Desperaux
4. What is your favorite TV show? I don’t really *watch* tv anymore, but will occasionally check out Extreme Makeover Home Edition. and medical reality tv on TLC or Discovery channel.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? Beach!! LOVE the beach!! Or Tuscany. Either would be fine.
6. What did you have for breakfast? hard boiled egg, 24 oz coffee, 2 slices of wheat toast. Now off to have more coffee!
7. What is your favorite cuisine? Vietnamese or Italian
8. What foods do you dislike? Not a big fan of Indian food - curry is NOT my thing. Other than that, I will eat most things (obviously! :o) )
9. Favorite Place to Eat? Vietnam Garden or Maggiano's
10. Favorite dressing? Caesar
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan most days (mom-mobile), or my 1998 Ford Ranger - LOVE my lil' truck!
12. What are your favorite clothes? Brown Nike shorts, tank top. NOT a clothes person! Oh, and my teal jammie pants! I could LIVE in those (and sometimes do!!)
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? Australia; Ireland; Scotland; Italy
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? Definitely1/2 full!
15. Where would you want to retire? I'm pretty sure I will die working!! :oP
16. Favorite time of day? Late nights
17. Where were you born? Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas.
18. What is your favorite sport to watch? Football!!
19. Who do you think will not tag you back? mom.
20. Person you expect to tag you back first? No clue
21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? Everyone!
22. Bird watcher? nope. not enough patience!
23. Are you a morning person or a night person? Night, totally night!
24. Do you have any pets? Yes, 1 dog and 4 kids!!
25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? not really
26. What did you want to be when you were little? a teacher, or a singer. oh, or a truck driver.
27. What is your best childhood memory? Wow. Hard to say. Loved camping trips to the mountains, and summers laying around the pool and "borrowing" my dad's car for joyrides out to Hunter's Island!
28. Are you a cat or dog person? DOG!!!
29. Are you married? Yes, for 16 1/2 years amazingly enough!
30. Always wear your seat belt? No
31. Been in a car accident? Yes
32. Any pet peeves? Hypocrites and cowards.
33. Favorite Pizza Toppings? Bottoms Up's Chesapeake pizza. Oh.my.gosh. THAT is pizza!!
34. Favorite Flower? Sterling silver roses
35. Favorite ice cream? pecan praline
36. Favorite fast food restaurant? Chick-fil-A
37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? Zero
38. From whom did you get your last email? Karen B.
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Barnes and Noble!
40. Do anything spontaneous lately? yes! and that's all I'm saying about THAT!
41. Like your job? NO!! Really, really hate it!
42. Broccoli? yes
43. What was your favorite vacation? BEACH!! and an AMAZING camping trip to Loft Mountain when I was 17 or 18....
44. Last person you went out to dinner with? MCC homeschool ministry moms
45. What are you listening to right now? Chaos and Mayhem arguing who is stronger - Hulk or Spiderman
46. What is your favorite color? purple and grey
47. How many tattoos do you have? Zero, but I have mine all drawn and planned!
48. How many are you tagging for this quiz? Not sure!
49. Coffee Drinker? OH yeah! LIVE on it!!
50. What time did you finish this quiz? 11:10am
15 Books
Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 7:22pm
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose...
1) The Bible - New King James Version. Essential toolbox for my life. Like the NKJV - more readable than the KJV, but with some on the "poetry" still left.
2) Anthem - Ayn Rand. A small but SO powerful book about the loss of individuality and the importance of the one.
3) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. Truly profound, and a bit too close for comfort in this day in this country.
4) A Gift for All People - Max Lucado. The book that I put together with the personal testimony of my friend D, which brought me to salvation in Jesus Christ.
5) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. The first really "grown-up" book I read. Made me think about issues I never even knew existed.
6) Eric - Doris Lund. Profoundly affected my 15 year old thoughts on life and death.
7) The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams. My FAVORITE book of all time. Such a true story about love and belief and trust and care. LOVE this book!
8) Mothering Your Nursing Toddler - confirmed so much of what I already knew, and changed for the better my relationships with my 3 youngest children.
9) A Walk Across America - Peter Jennings. Read this after my mom did in the early 80's. SO fed my desire to pack up and hit the road. I still re-read it once every couple of years.
10) Walking the Trail - Jerry Ellis. The first book I read that made me truly proud to be 1/4 Cherokee Indian.
11) I Love You Forever. Another children's book that makes me cry every.single.time. I read it. Such a clear, simple, true message.
12) I Love You the Purplest. We've changed the characters to Benjamin (instead of Julian) and Max because it TOTALLY personifies my middles. I have phrases from this book to put up in their room. LOVE IT!
13) You are My I Love You. Such a true and beautiful picture of the relationship of parent to child.
14) The Five Love Languages. Changed the way I deal with my husband and children SO much for the better.
15) Wild at Heart. First time I read it, it was loaned to me by a man friend. Have since bought my own copy. Probably the most eye-opening book about the inner character of men and insight into what makes them tick. Totally use this book in my life here in Boyland!
I never do these things, but.....there's always the first time!!
Monday, January 26, 2009 at 9:04am
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
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1) Wow, I am shocked that more than one person cares to know more about me!
2) I am amazed and shocked at the turns my life has taken in the past 6 years!
3) I am very grateful for the turns!
4) I NEVER imagined I would be a mom, let alone one of 4 children. Sometimes it still kinda takes my breath away!
5) I am a little nervous cause I have this recurring feeling of "I've forgotten one of the kids!" even when they are all sitting right here.
6) The thing I miss most about working full-time is having the money available to go snow skiing. I SO miss it, and hearing snow is forecast almost makes me cry.
7) I used to think that people who had more than 1-2 kids were odd, and more than 4 were not even something I could really imagine! When I was a Den Leader, I had a Cub Scout who came from a family of 6 kids and I was just gobsmacked!
8) WOW, Amanda was right! 25 things is A LOT of factoids!!
9) I am 1/4 Cherokee.
10) I was adopted right after I was born, a total God thing, in my opinion. I am SO grateful for the family I was given, and so grateful to be given to my family.
11) One of my favorite things to do is drive. I LOVE to drive. Vehicle and destination are unimportant. I love the trip.
12) I am touched and amazed at the truly special person that is my oldest son.
13) For all my online, websurfing, spreadsheet-making ways, I still much prefer paper and pen for my planner, to do list, and especially poetry writing. I feel my writing loses its heart and soul when I try to develop it on the computer.
14) I am continually surprised by the things my husband can do - home remodeling, woodcrafting, being patient and calm with a tantruming 3 year old.
15) I love fiercely, defend passionately, fight tenaciously, and pursue intensely.
16) I am such a different person now from the person I was 10 years ago, I feel like it is a whole separate life sometimes.
17) I love dogs, but can only be around most of them for short amounts of time, because of my allergies.
18) I miss horseback riding most of all the things I left behind from my childhood in Kansas.
19) I hardly watch TV anymore, and really don't miss it at all!!
20) Learning to knit is something I have always wanted to do.
21) I could live on salads, beef stroganoff with homemade noodles, and brown rice.
22) Oh, and coffee. HAVE to have my coffee.
23) I smoked from the age of 14 until I was 30. I quit because my then 7 year old son asked me why I wanted to smoke and die and leave him. Don't tell me indoctrination doesn't work!! :o)
24) I still sometimes miss smoking, but NEVER want to smoke again!
25) My biggest inspirations and mentors are my Granny and my aunt Sarah. Amazing women, and truly blessings in my life.
whew!!!
All you wanted to know, and probably WAY more! That should hold everyone for awhile!! :o)
