My Dream House - TADBJ

Hubby and I talk about this all the time.  I could really go into much more detail than any of you would really want to hear!  For purposes of this blog entry I'll keep it brief and hit the highlights.

First and foremost we would like a big kitchen.  We love to cook and we love to eat.  A big kitchen means both get done more easily.  Also, big kitchens can be helpful for hosting guests and even family holiday gathering.  A big, walk-in pantry is also ideal.

Second, we need enough bedrooms for everyone to have one (including future children) AND an office and a guest bedroom.  That comes to a total of 8 bedrooms (if all goes according to plan) and an office.

Outside we need lots of parking space for the guests we will inevitably have over.  We love being hospitable but hate showing up to someone's home when they have plenty of room inside for all of their guests but no room outside for all of their guest's cars.

Then we need plenty of outdoor space for a garden or two and a fenced in area for the children to play in.

Okay now - who's buying it for us? LOL!

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Seven Days... TADBJ

My to-do list for the next seven days: (This ought to be about as good as my daily schedule... beware!)

Tuesday: 1. Go to the county clerks office and try to make some sense out of getting my new-to-me car that I don't even have in my possession yet titled and registered. (LooooooOOoooooong Story)  2. All my normal daily chores. 3. Go sing at Nashville Work Camp.

Wednesday: 1.Start gathering and labeling stuff for a yard sale on Saturday. 2. All my normal daily chores.

3.Hang out with my dear friend Katie.  

Thursday: 1. All my normal daily chores. 2. Hubby's singing group is performing at Nashville Work Camp and I will be attending.  We will hopefully be hanging out with friends that night as well.  3. I'm hoping to go shopping for Baby One's birthday... we'll see if that happens.

Friday: 1. Last minute prep for the yard sale!  I'm super excited about the sale.  Less excited about the getting up at "stupid o'clock" in the morning to DO the sale.  Shout out to Robin for the terminology! 2. Normal daily chores. 

Saturday: 1. YARD SALE!!!! Yay for hopefully making some money! 2. Normal daily chores.

Sunday: 1. Sunday School and Church. 2. Lunch with "Nonna" (My mother-in-law) 3. Sunday afternoon naps... and sex. (See, Hubby?  At least it made THIS list) 4. Life group with some of the best people Nashville has to offer.

Monday: 1.Normal daily chores 2. ??? Who know's what may come up by then!

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"If I Had a Million Dollars..." TADBJ

If I won the lottery or otherwise ended up with a bunch of money below is my list of what I would do with it.  Yes, I have previously put a lot of thought into it and I would work my way through the following steps until I had purposed all of the money.

1. Give to GOD - (half of the winnings split between my church and a few other charities and/or families in need)

2. Pay off debt

3. Save a year's salary

4. Buy a house

5. Buy a car

6. Invest for retirement.

7. Invest for children's college funds and wedding funds

8. Pay off my parents house.

9. Buy my father-in-law a porsche (inside joke, but I'd do it!)

10. Give to various friends and relatives.

I know this list seems a little boring... but that's my list!

3 Celebrity Crushes - TADBJ

After much discussing with Hubby here's what I've come up with:

Jennifer Anniston (always!)


Matthew Perry (Forgive me!  I'm a Friends fan and my husband looks like him.)



John Krasinski (Because honestly - who doesn't like him?)



So there you have it.  My top 3 celebrity crushes. ;-)

The Hardest Thing... TADBJ

This post is supposed to be about the hardest thing I've ever had to deal with.  Honestly, I have a hard time pinning that down.  I feel like I've been through so much that its hard to pick one thing.  Then, when I really think about it, I haven't been through that much at all.  I've never lost a baby (and been aware of it).  I've never lost my home to a fire.  Aside from grandparents who were old and ready I've never lost a family member.  I've never had cancer.

I lost a cat.  I lost a hamster.  I lost two special dogs in my life.

My family moved when I was 14.  I lost friends and the city where I was very happy.

I have darker things in my past too, but given the time and space they seem to pale in comparison to other things.

Given the grass-is-always-greener mentality that we humans tend to have, I'd say that what I'm going through NOW is hardest, but in reality, never before have I had the blessings that are my sons to brighten my life while I was going through something.

All of that to say that I'm not sure what I can say is the hardest thing I've ever been through.  There isn't a really obvious answer for me

Meanwhile let me just say that GOD is teaching me the true meaning of Joy.  He's teaching me that it isn't something you gain after your life is perfect or pretty much perfect.  Joy is something you can have even when times are tough as long as you are trusting in Him.  That's pretty darn cool if you ask me.

These are a few of my favorite things... TADBJ

Now it's time to list 20 of my favorite things.  Excluding the special people in my life this is my list:

1.Doing research (especially about pregnancy, birth, and natural cures for illnesses)
2. Getting comments on my blog posts and/or new followers
3. Hearing my babies talk and/or sing
4. Finding one of the cats curled up inside a box
5. Discovering that Hubby has already done the dishes and/or taken out the trash and/or changed a dirty diaper and/or picked up all the toys and/or done the vacuuming, etc.
6. Unexpected gifts
7. Playing games or otherwise just hanging out with friends
8. Going to the park or mall with my family
9. Breakfast, lunch or dinner out with family or good friends
10. Weddings
11. Cuddling with my babies
12. Cuddling with my hubby
13. Date night!!!
14. Dancing (ballroom)
15. Singing
16. Cats and kittens
17. Gardening
18. GOOD TV shows (The Office, Friends, The Cosby Show, Lost - except for the finale, Modern Family)
19. Good moments with GOD.
20. Hubby's Chipotle Chicken Sandwiches.  Yum!

I just read this list to Hubby and he's disappointed that sex isn't on the list. :-)

What I Collect - TADBJ

This Theme-A-Day Blog-Journal post is about what I collect.  What HAVEN'T I collected?  At some point in time I have collected coins, rocks, snowbabies and pencils.  My current collection is bottles.  Big bottles, little bottles, old bottles, new bottles, blue bottles, green bottles, colorless bottles, Bottles with the labels off, bottles with the labels on. If it's glass and it's a bottle I'll probably collect it.

The only problem is that now, I have two babies, three cats and nowhere out of reach to display said bottles.  So for now they are stuffed in a box.  I hope that one day soon I can take them out and display them with pride.