Friday, January 18, 2008

50 more things about me!

    This is my 100th post! Can you believe it? Me neither!
  1. I love to bake

  2. I also love to give

  3. Often I bake and give half or more of what I have made away

  4. My boys hate that

  5. They smell baking all day long, then come into A cookie left for each of them and the others are wrapped and bagged to give away

  6. I don't do well with criticism

  7. I can be very outspoken, when it is necessary

  8. I am working on being a better listener

  9. My favorite non fiction book is "Created to Be His Help Meet"

  10. My favorite fiction author before I was saved was Steven King

  11. My favorite fiction author now is Janette Oke

  12. We own all of the Veggie Tale movies

  13. I was saved when I was 23

  14. I was about as far from saved as you could get without being in the gutter

  15. I was hanging around drugs and alcohol and planning on divorcing Riky

  16. I was OK with the idea of being a single mom

  17. I am now Redeemed and I Love to Proclaim It!! :)

  18. We own 5 televisions

  19. We only watch two of them

  20. I hate gardening

  21. I hate planting the garden

  22. I hate weeding the garden

  23. I hate harvesting the garden

  24. I love canning the produce, though. go figure

  25. I don't read my Bible like I ought to

  26. I often pray "Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief"

  27. I enjoy going to church

  28. Riky and I are in a quartet at church

  29. I am not sure that I can even sing well

  30. The Bible says to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord" He said it, and I'm stickin' to it

  31. I am positive that I will go to heaven when I die

  32. Before I was saved, I truly believed that "if" God was real, then when the "rapture" happened, I would "believe", accept him as my "savior" and go to heaven when the Tribulation was over. read this statement with sarcasm dripping from each letter.

  33. Apparently, with that line of thinking, I must have also believed that I was immortal and could never actually die.

  34. I am so glad that I got my life right with my Lord before I was faced with the reality of Hell.

  35. I hate the sound of a pencil sharpened by a knife.

  36. It gives me goose bumps

  37. I am extremely ticklish

  38. My Dad died in a plane crash when he was 51

  39. My In-laws have 7 grandsons and no granddaughters

  40. I have 1 brother, 3 half-brothers, one step-brother, and one step-sister

  41. From those, I have 5 nephews, 4 nieces, and 3 sons

  42. I really only get to spend time with 2 nephews, though :(

  43. If I was to get together with my two closest friends, we would have 10 boys and 1 girl at the gathering. I heart AliaBeth! :) She helps us stay sane!

  44. I am gratefully in submission to my husband.

  45. It took me 7 years of marriage to give over to his leadership.

  46. We got "re"married at that point and made it a point to keep the "obey"part in the vows!

  47. I like being under his leadership

  48. He is not one of those tyrannical leaders, so that helps me not to rebel against him, because, if he was, I know I would!

  49. He is my best friend and confidant, my very favorite person to be around.

  50. I heart Riky!

1 comment:

Sherri said...

It seems like you should be closer to two hundred posts for some reason. Weird I know. :) I enjoyed reading this and yes, for the most part, AliaBeth does help keep us sane. ;)