I noticed on my friend Jana’s blog that she had a “101 List” of things about herself. I thought it was a very fun read and decided to write my own. Is it amusing or should I be really embarrassed that I could write 101 things in the span of less than an hour? Am I very self aware, very chatty, an ego maniac (hope not), super in touch????? Good grief – I made myself stop at 101 because who wants to read all 101 in the first place much less more. But still I wrote on…and it was fun:).<\/p>\n
1\tI was born on March 27th, 1973
\n2\tI have four younger brothers
\n3\tI liked being the only girl
\n4\tI love having boys and hope for more
\n5\tWhen we got married I wanted 6 kids. I still want 6 but I don’t think I’d remain sane. Now hoping for at least four.
\n6\tWas married on Sept 16th, 1994
\n7\tJim told me that he thought he would marry me the first weekend we were dating. Six months later I had an engagement ring.
\n8\tI hate raw tomaotes
\n9\tI am not very athletic
\n10\tI do swim well, can snow ski a black diamond run, and wake board and slollem water ski
\n11\tI love to camp and sleep in tents
\n12\tI love to 4 wheel drive in our Suzuki Samari
\n13\tI love to be anywhere near the water
\n14\tI thinking fishing is very boring
\n15\tI don’t like to eat fish either
\n16\tI do like the taste of rattlesnake
\n17\tI was born in Los Angeles, CA but have lived in Phoenix, AZ since I was 4
\n18\tAs a child, I wanted to grow up and be just like Amy Grant
\n19\tAs a child, I always dreamed of having twins and then later high order multiples
\n20\tI lost triplets in miscarriage twice and twins twice. Still wonder if God gave me the dream of high order babies – story isn’t over.
\n21\tI never dreamed I would mother a micro preemie
\n22\tI never dreamed I would hold both my children before they were medically deemed viable (Tanner as a 2 pro nuclei celled embryo and Ty 106 days premature)
\n23\tMy career goal was to be a stay at home mommy. God fulfilled that.
\n24\tI hope to home school my kids.
\n25\tBaskin Robbins German Chocolate Cake ice cream is my favorite treat.
\n26\tI think the “list maker” at Baskin Robbins should be fired because they only see fit to serve German Chocolate Cake Ice Cream in September.
\n27\tThings that won’t work make me very angry.
\n28\tSappy movies make me cry – I am ALL girl.
\n29\tWhile I AM all girl, people tell me I “think” like a man often. LOL.
\n30\tMy ancestry is a combination of Austrian, Dutch, English, Cherokee Indian
\n31\tPeople often guess me to be hispanic or middle eastern.
\n32\tThe one lie that I have record of is my height on my drivers license. Might as well confess that because Jim tells on me.
\n33\tMy first ticket was driving my mother in laws car when I was dating Jim. He told everyone including my parents. Aaarrghh.
\n34\tI struggle with procrastination and am easily overwhelmed
\n35\tI believe I have adult ADD. My mother denies it. My husband is certain of it. Tanner will side with Jim if he has to tell me where we live again. Ty will never notice because he can’t stay focused long enough to care either LOL.
\n36\tMy first job was working for Valley National Bank when I was 17. I quit at 28 when Tanner was born.
\n37\tI started as a customer service operator, than a supervisor, than a manager, then decided to quit managing and do fun techy stuff like creating databases and running and analyzing sales reports.
\n38\tI was born with a passion for life and I knew as a child I would be a pro life lobbyist one way or the other.
\n39\tI did not know that my pro life passions and the story of my children would land me lobbying in Washington DC alongside President George W. Bush. That was the all time coolest:).
\n40\tThe first positive pregnancy test I ever saw was not mine. I was a crisis pregnancy counselor while going through infertility. Crazy but God ordained.
\n41\tI went to school to get my “MRS” because our church was too small to generate “Mr. Right”. I quit school when Mr. Right showed up on the pew LOL.
\n42\tI don’t regret not finishing my college education.
\n43\tI attended Grand Canyon University for 3 years and intended to be a High School English Teacher with a Communciations Minor.
\n44\tI love Public Speaking.
\n45\tI am a little afraid of heights.
\n46\tFear has been my greatest battle. God has been working on that though
\n47\tWhen I was a young teenager I pleaded with God to send me a forever friend. He sent Heidi when I was 16. We celebrate the gift of our friendship every Cinco De Mayo.
\n48\tMy favortie past time is reading a historical fiction or a good Ted Dekker.
\n49\tI am a member of “the Circle” – (Ted Dekker)
\n50\tI was raised a Conservative Baptist but a couple of years ago, our church changed its affiliation to “Non Denominational”. That is a better fit for me.
\n51\tI am a “PK” – pastor’s kid
\n52\tIf I could travel anywhere, it would be to Israel. I hope I get to see the old Jerusalem before I see the new one LOL.
\n53\tThings that keep me up nights: Debating Armenianism versus Calvinism, Deciding whether or not I am a young or old earther – leaning toward old, contemplating my end times position—-pretrib or ammileniastist? Still wondering???
\n54\tMy greatest hope: That I will give glory to God
\n55\tBiggest hope for my children: That they will live life understanding their purpose, who they serve, and glorifying God above all else
\n56\tGreatest Fear: That I will fail my husband and my kids
\n57\tI started dying my hair at 32. I have no regrets. I dye it as close to my natural color as possible because I promised Jim I would.
\n58\tJim thinks I should cut my hair like the girl’s in Matrix. I think he is crazy.
\n59\tI am very ecclectic with my music preferences. I love many contempary christian artists but also love country, Yanni, Celine Dion, Michael Buble, Nora Jones, Eva Cassidy, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, the Eagles???.just love music.
\n60\tWhen I was in elementary school I told people you would go to “H” “E” double hockey stick if you listened to rock music.
\n61\tWhen I got married my husband brought with him a whole collection and still insists that Metallica is the greatest band on earth. (I don’t think he is going to the hot place either:)
\n62\tI love to sing but I don’t have a passion for it that would ever amount to pursuing it (nor enough talent for it)
\n63\tI love to cook (and sadly???I love to eat)
\n64\tI don’t like housework. Not one bit. I especially hate doing the dishes and laundry.
\n65\tI love long beautiful hikes – like the one at Westfork in Oak Creek Canyon but I don’t like the hike to be so hard I lose a toe nail. That isn’t on my fun list.
\n66\tI have traveled to the following : Arizona, California, Utah and New Mexico (if you count four corners:), Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiania, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania (if you count the airport), Texas, and to Mexico.
\n67\tI hope to see all 50 states someday. Preferrably traveling in an RV.
\n68\tMy husband completes me.
\n69\tMy children are my treasures.
\n70\tMy family is like none other and I am blessed.
\n71\tI failed my driver’s test the first time for missing a double stop sign and I cried and cried and cried.
\n72\tI went to work with two different shoes once. One was a heeled red pump and the other a flat red pump. See the ADD issue above.
\n73\tI wore navy nylons with a bright green dress to an elegant luncheon once and didn’t notice I didn’t match until I was outside.
\n74\tI took our doorbell off trying to get the smoke alarm to quit buzzing one time. Jim still thinks I am quite intelligent – just a nut.
\n75\tI swiped the mirror off the side of our excursion backing out of the driveway right after Jim told me to watch for it. He was very mad.
\n76\tI was very mad at Jim when he gave my two toy poodles away for pottying in the house. That was one of our first big marriage disputes. Obviously I buried the hatched on that one. LOL. He knows he may never live that one down.
\n77\tI can’t cry over this the rest of my life though because in all honesty, I am not an animal lover. (Jim knew that). I am just an animal liker.
\n78\tI am a people lover.
\n79\tI am a motor mouth and sometimes I feel really guilty for talking too much and not letting other people get their two cents in.
\n80\tI am trying to learn to keep my two cents to myself but I struggle with this.
\n81\tI am a passionate person and sometimes people are afraid of that.
\n82\tGrace is hard for me because I don’t accept failure well – in myself or others. God is teaching me about how precious grace is.
\n83\tI am learning that failing means we tried. I am trying to teach this to my children.
\n84\tI can’t hold things in my mouth or they will make me gag (like holding a hanger or a pen when I need an extra hand).
\n85\tI tend to be psychosaumatic. If you are scratching you will make me itch. When Ty was in the NICU I couldn’t breathe and struggled with asthma symptoms.
\n86\tWhen I get very stressed or overwhelmed with grief, I lose feeling in my face, back and arms.
\n87\tTy’s premature birth and first 18 months of life gave me post traumatic stress.
\n88\tInfertility was one of my biggest battles turned into my greatest blessing.
\n89\tI became a christian on June 29th, 1978. I understood this decision and made a “no turning back” decision when I was 13.
\n90\tI have never broken any bones.
\n91\tI do have acid reflux, a duedonal ulcer, and a hiaetal hernia. Worrying is very bad for my health.
\n92\tIn my mind I am still a size 4. I am sorely disappointed when I look in the mirror. Someday???.
\n93\tI hope I grow into a very gracious older woman who understands how to love and be a servant.
\n94\tI love the Old Testament.
\n95\tI wish I could be an expert on Jewish history – I love the subject.
\n96\tI love to study and I want to be a walking biblical encylopedia.
\n97\tI am very clumsy and I can’t dance.
\n98\tI cannot create original works of art but I love to capture the fingerprints of God through photography.
\n99\tI love photography and videos because I consider every moment precious and I don’t want to forget.
\n100\tOne of my favorite quotes is “Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.”
\n101\tJesus is my greatest treasure and my reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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