What You Don’t Know about Me

1. I eat my toast like my dad… with natural peanut butter stirred up with honey before spreading it onto the toast.
2. I’m selling scrapbook stuff to benefit a couple adoptions… and it is sooooo tempting to keep for myself. I confess I bought a huge stack of the paper just to let the kids use. And… I haven’t told them yet, because I’m secretly wanting it all for myself.
3. I have developed a budget program for our family by using a mish-mash of Microsoft Money (yes, from the 90’s) and Microsoft Excel…. a ridiculously complicated excel spread sheet. And I love it.
4. I have my very first touch-screen phone and I feel so old learning to use it. I’m 30, people… just getting used to being behind in understanding how to use modern gadgets.
5. I love little more than a tidy list and a tidy desk. And yet, my desk is the last place that gets cleaned.
6. Smoke is the closest thing to a horse we’ve owned since I was in high school and I am LOVING it! He is intelligent, laid back, furry and cute. The kids crawl over him without him batting an eye and Carolyn likes to feed him her Cheerios… one Cheerio at a time.
7. I don’t like peas or green beans. They are so yucky! My family rarely eats them. I do like okra and especially brussel sprouts.
8. Brian wanted three kids by the time he was 30 and we barely made it…. and ended up with four somehow!
9. I regularly see the faces of children who need a family. Desperately. And I desperately crave to fill that need. Don’t tell Brian.
10. I have finally begun to take some specific baby steps to address the attachment disorder that exists for me and for Jordan. It feels good to finally have the inner strength to be pursuing him like he deserves.
11. I have not slept through the night without waking either multiple times or for extended periods…. except for maybe a few weeks worth in… umm… 2 years. It’s improving lately.
12. We might drive the many hours to Spokane in a month and a half to go to a fancy hotel with Brian while he’s at a work-related conference.
13. I used to belong to a church with no name.
14. I have worked as a barista/baker, leather-worker and bank teller. The first two I enjoyed and the last I would have enjoyed if I had been more mature and the position didn’t require sales.
15. We’re getting a ton of pellets delivered today to use in our pellet stove. My husband is SO AWESOME! You know, he fixed the thing himself!
16. The people I miss most who have passed away are my two grandpas and my great-grandma Hornibrook.

So it wasn’t all about me, but it was fun to sit and write a few minutes. Time to get dressed and start school for the day!

Great-Grandma on my wedding day

Something I made.

Something else I made.

Two beautiful women.

Grandpa.

Missing these two goofballs too

Come to think of it, I miss our old doggie too!

Grandpa and Grandma

Sure have a lot of great memories… I could go on. 🙂