100 THINGS ABOUT ME

My friend and blogger, Bensrib, did this one time and thought I would try it!~

1. I’m the middle child
2. I have two other siblings
3. I have a sister 13 months younger
4. I hate cats
5. But hate birds more
6. I have five children
7. I had all five children at home
8. Had several sets of midwifes, husband doesn't count!
9. I have china from my mom, husbands mom and grandmother… all the same pattern
10. I went to the same school system for 13 years
11. Had perfect attendance for 2 years
12. I love all kinds of music
13. I love choir music
14. Can play the trumpet and the baritone
15. I have been coordinating VBS for my church for 12 years
16. Favorite fast food in Millington: El Toros
17. I love to take pictures with my camera
18. I’m just now getting into taking digital pictures
19. I have been scrap booking for 8 years
20. Never been out of the country
21. Going to Romania next summer
22. I use a purse until it falls apart
23. I’ve never been in a wreck while driving
24. Would love to visit Hawaii and California
25. Hate washing dishes.. But it has to be done
26. Only lived in five houses I can remember in my lifetime
27. Have read my bible cover to cover
28. Been to college in MO.
29. Have received my AS, Mrs., and MOM degree
30. Love to read Biographies
31. I have never broke a bone
32. Only been in the hospital three times in my life and only been out of it once~
33. Called 911 more than once
34. Have road in a ambulance for fun and for serious
35. Have picked off mice and rats to many times off a trap
34. I secretly wanted a girl for my first baby
35. Would love to meet the McCaughey septuplets and their parents
36. Would love to make 10,000 in a month’s time
37. Would love to go on an all-you-put-in-a-shopping-cart-sweepstakes-trip to Wal-Mart
38. Been in three Wal-Mart’s in one day~
39. Love winter time
40. Can’t believe I have 60 more things to write about
41. Got married just shy of my 21st birthday
42. Had kids two years after marrying
43. Still have my set of Nancy Drew books that I collected as a kid
44. Still think Libraries are very important.
45. Can drive four hours before having to stop and hobble to the bathroom
45. Never nursed and drove at the same time, but know who has
46. Can remember having a 110 camera
47. I love chocolate and really LOVE it times of a month
48. Have a son who is a wonderful chef
49. Used cloth diapers for several of my kids
50. Even had a special bucket with decals to put them in
51. Remember five and dime stores
52. Orange is my favorite flavor of drink
53. LOVE crushed ice
54. Taught my daughter to be potty trained at 18 months… boys are a different story
55. I have one fallopian tube and still managed to get pregnant… only takes one folks!~
56. Never took piano lessons but wished I did.
57. Begged my parents to get me a piano
58. My best friend taught me the basics
59. I have started riding lawn mowers three different ways
60. I love getting lost in thought on a riding lawn mower
61. I have all my kids’ teeth and a circumcise ring in a jar
62. I am directionally challenged
63. History is my favorite subject
64. Got married in a Nazerene church- rented it~
65. Have never drank coffee and don’t plan to.
66. Still keep in touch with childhood grade school friends
67. Worked at a Mc Donald’s near the six flags- St. Louis and lived within 30 minutes 68. Wish I could say I’ve never been skinny dipping
69. Currently own a car that I LOVE and have no air conditioning
70. Never had a manicure or pedicure
71. Need a new mattress
72. My dream vacation would be going on a west coast drive up and down it.
73. I’m sick of hearing about celebrity adoptions
74. Would love to hear about normal people adopting and their sacrifice to get a child. 75. Will soon have a son in the military
76. Makes it easier living in a military town
77. But will still miss him terribly, especially when it comes to weeding eating
78. One day in my old age, teaching other children will be a pleasure
79. Still have my first love letter from my husband
80. Knew my husband less than two months before saying yes to marriage
81. Favorite Disney movie: beauty and the beast
82. Graduated in 1981 from high school with the red and gray
83. Played basketball on a team for 6 years
84. Matter of fact played basketball to go into labor with my first child
85. Would sit on a porch all day long and swing
86. Don’t care for football very much
87. Killed a mole with a butcher knife in my front yard
88. Can play jacks
89. Have gone snipe hunting
90. Have washed my dog and my brother’s hair at the same time
91. Have lived thru a fire
92. Italian and Mexican food are my favorite dishes
93. Wish there would be no more car wrecks in life
94. Knew of a family who lost six of eight family members in one wreck
95. Still miss them
96. Have stayed up all night scrap booking
97. Secret: would love to have one room in my house that is just mine~
98. Love: sliced tomatoes, scrambled eggs and biscuits
99. Don’t like high heeled shoes and have a fear of turning my ankle in public
100. Loved the exercise of stretching my brain doing this~ DO YOU KNOW ME MORE? OR WISH YOU DIDN’T?

That was harder than I thought it would be. If you get inspired and decide to share 100 things, leave me a note so I can come read about you.