101 Things About Me (make that 75)

1. I believe our purpose here on Earth is to love and serve the Lord... by loving and serving one another.
2. I am conservative in my political views.
3. I can tie a cherry stem in a knot..... in my mouth... no hands.
4. I have seen Barry Manilow in concert... twice!
5. I have also seen Randy Travis, The Judds, Styx, ACDC, Ozzy Ozbourn, Journey, Cheap Trick, Night Ranger, Huey Lewis and the News, Alabama, Amy Grant, George Carlin, and Doc Severnson and the Tonight Show Band. (There may be a few I forgot.)
6. My Grandfather had a polka band... and I can play the accordian. (So can my mother and my son.)
7. I like baseball movies.
8. I love to read. Historical fiction is my favorite genre.
9. I twirled flag in high school and college.
10. I absolutely LOVE blue glass canning jars. (the old ones.) It really is sort of a sickness.. I am obsessed.
11. I learned how to make a great biscuit this year.
12. I can also play the piano (a teeny bit... and I played the saxophone in high school and college... though not very well.)
13. I organize my closet by color... rainbow order usually with brown, black and white at the end. Brian would not let me do this with his clothes.
14. I have four children who I love and adore... and they think I am a door too!
15. I married a younger man... Brian is one month younger than I am.
16. The best sound in the world is my kids laughing.
17. Country Living is my favorite magazine.... I loved Cottage Living too... but they don't publish it anymore.
18. I was born in Wyoming and lived in Northern Michigan until I was 12.
19. I lived in Louisiana for 11 years... then Florida for 6... we have been just over 13.
19. I consider myself a Southerner.
20. I love sweet tea.
21. When I talk to my friends from Southern Arkansas and Louisiana... my accent comes back.
(Brian.. and the kids can always tell when I have talked to someone who lives further south.)
22. I majored in Education and taught public school for 3 years.
23. I was a waitress for 2 months.
24. I worked at a racetrack. I was an usherette and I seated people.
25. I enjoy paper crafts. I make cards and decorate notebooks and do some framed projects too.
26. I wish I were a better writer. My thoughts sound so good in my head... but when I write them down... not so much.
27. I wish I liked to exercise... but.....again... not so much.
28. When I was in PE I was the last one picked and the first one out. I am not athletically inclined!
29. I DO like to eat.
30. I make a lot of lists... and schedules. I usually do get to my lists... but the schedules rarely work out as planned. Both Brian and Bekah have kindly suggested I just use the schedules and lists I have already made instead of making new ones.
31. I worry too much about what other people think.
32. I am often afraid that I have unintentionally offended someone.
33. I generally feel like I haven't accomplished enough. (my kids feel this now too.. so I am trying hard to change the verbage I use.)
34. I talk to my parents every day... (to my Mom more than once a day usually.)
35.  I LOVE to hear kids sing... but it also makes me cry.
36.  I  read relatively fast... but Bekah reads faster... and retains more.
37.  I read the 7th Harry Potter book in one day.
38.  I Saran Wrapped Brian's car once when we were in college.
39.  I am not a good singer... but I like to sing.
40.  When Brian is out of town I stay up way too late...waaaay too late.  I don't plan too... I just do.  The house is lonely without him even though other people are here.
41.  Brian thinks I have some OCD tendencies... he says they're cute.  Am I obsessing if I wonder what they are?  ;)
42.  I know what they are... they are slightly obsessive but not in an annoying way.. I hope.
43. I played a fork and a villager in Beauty and the Beast.
44. I played the wife of an efficiency expert in Cheaper by the Dozen.  If you know Brian at all you will know I wasn't acting.  If you saw the play you know Katie played  (one of ) my daughters.  (again not acting!)
45. I like to sing Karaoke.. but not in public.  My brother and sister-in-law have a pretty impressive set-up and we sing whenever we are together.
46.  I grew up swimming in Lake Huron.. one of the Great Lakes.  It was very cold.
47.  I was born on the cusp of the Zodiac table and so "my sign" varies sometimes depending on which chart you read.  Brian was born on the cusp too.. so we never know who we are!
48.  I don't believe at all in the Zodiac thing.. but most people have at least looked up their sign.
49.  Homemade toffee is probably my favorite homemade treat.  My friend Sam makes it at Christmas.  I learned how to make it too and I won't tell how much of it I can eat myself.  I will tell you I only make it once a year.
50.  I have talked about losing 20 pounds for about 10 years (no coincidence this is also the age of my youngest)  Perhaps this is the year I do it.
51.  I like to watch British period movies on t.v. (netflix)
52.  The girls and I have watched MANY (most?) of the versions of Pride and Prejudice.. including the Bali-wood one.
53.  I love the Anne of Green Gables series.
54.  I am quite compulsive about reading and have been know to read a book in one sitting.. but then again I stay up too late.
55.  The week before Noah was born I read a book every night.  I was in pain-free early labor and could not sleep.
56.  Not to share too much... but I had very easy, short deliveries for all of my children.
57.  My biggest baby weighed almost 10 pounds. (guess which one?)
58. I am not at all sure that there are 101 things about me worth sharing...... hhrrmmmm
59.  I am blessed with good friends.
60.  I think I am a good friend.  I try to be.
61.  I love babies.  Truly.  Love to kiss their smooshy faces.  I once kissed Katie to sleep when she was a baby.
62.  My mom and I often trade around things in our homes... curtains... linens.. things like that.  We like the change.
63.  I really like teaching.  I love history and literature the best.  I love maps.
64.  I homeschool my children... don't think I said that yet.  Bekah graduated last year and is in college. So.. yeah me!  My first graduate.
65.  I also teach Sunday School.
66.  I spent this past summer as a children's librarian at our local library.
67.  I had 3 chickens.. and they were beautiful before they met an untimely death... my previous flock of four chickens were massacred in their coop.  Tragedy.. but I plan to try again.
68.  I would like to be a gardener...at least in theory... but guess what people?  It is a lot of work.
69.  I spend too much time doing other things... and my house gets pretty dusty.. I am trying to vacuum more though.
70.  I like old stuff.. vintage... think.. 1940's or 50's.  Especially for the kitchen.
71.   I watch too much t.v.  my latest nemesis Downton Abbey
72.  I like to go Christmas Caroling... when it is cold... door to door.
73.  Last year for Halloween I dressed up like a man.  I darkened my eyebrows and used brown eye shadow for whiskers.  People I know didn't recognize me.  I sort of looked like my Uncle Chris.
74.  I am only the 3rd generation born in America on my mom's side of the family.
75.  My dad's side of the family is Polish.