The Simple Life at Home

1. I love God
2. He loves me
3. I cry at everything – happy, sad, frustrated; I’m a regular waterworks
4. I have enough hair on my head to safely cover the heads of 3 other people plus myself
5. I love homeschooling my kids
6. I love to curl up under a blanket when there’s a thunderstorm outside
7. I have moved probably over 25 times in my life
8. And lived in 4 different states and Europe in the process
9. The foreign country I lived in was Austria
10. I spent my 21st birthday in Salzburg trying to retrace the steps from “The Sound of Music” where the kids sang their way through the town– “Doe a deer, a female deer…”
11. I was there doing mission work to refugees from behind the Iron Curtain & the Middle East
12. Due to our experiences while there, my best friend & I swore we’d never have anything to do with Arabic men
13. We both married Arabs
14. I love to travel – seeing and experiencing new things is a rush for me
15. I don’t like ice cream
16. Or chocolate
17. Or most sweets
18. But I love salty stuff like nuts, chips, and popcorn
19. I’m seriously addicted to Pepsi
20. My mother and I don’t agree on whether or not I’ve had my tonsils out, but I’m right
21. My sister and I don’t agree on who was babysitting Amanda Gates when she had a tick on her stomach and it needed to be removed, but it was me, and I’m right
22. My husband and I don’t agree on how we spent our first New Year’s Eve together, but I’m right
23. Some people claim that I have a bad memory, but I don’t believe them (and I’m right)
24. I love to cook
25. But I hate to do the dishes
26. I actually like doing laundry
27. But I hate putting clothes away
28. I hate hurricanes
29. I never wear a watch
30. I love board games
31. But I crave alone time at least once a week or so
32. I have horrible handwriting
33. And I’m not good at math
34. But I am a grammar and spelling stickler
35. My musical tastes are very eclectic – Christian contemporary, country, hymns, heavy metal, pop, southern rock, swing, classical – I love it all
36. I hate to wear shoes
37. I love to read
38. I prefer non-fiction to fiction
39. Unless it’s a Jodi Picoult novel
40. I’m a huge Denver Broncos fan
41. Me, my husband and my kids were all born in the month of April
42. My middle name is Lee. I’ve always hated because I feel that’s the masculine way of spelling it. My parents should have spelled it Leigh – that’s prettier and more feminine, isn’t it?
43. My favorite perfume is “Paris” by Yves St Laurent
44. Jon Bon Jovi is my imaginary boyfriend
45. I tend to fall off boats – even the bumper boats you find at amusement parks. It’s quite embarrassing
46. My husband and I never dated before we got engaged
47. And we were only engaged for 5 ½ months before we got married
48. I love old movies, especially ones with Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant
49. My favorite tv show is “Lost”
50. I like Sawyer more than Jack
51. My favorite reality show is “The Amazing Race”
52. I’m really good at Trivial Pursuit
53. I started wearing glasses in 5th grade
54. Started wearing contacts in 9th grade
55. About 7 years ago I had Lasik and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done
56. I only paid $512 to get both eyes done
57. I had a "friend in high places" at the eye hospital
58. As a teenager the majority of my life was spent at the roller skating rink
59. I still love to roller skate
60. If I could get on a plane and go anywhere in the world, I’d go to Italy
61. I once told a friend I would be miserable to be a housewife in the suburbs
62. Now, there’s nothing else I’d rather do
63. I wish I had a fireplace
64. I’m on a first-name basis with the local librarians because I’m there all the time
65. I’m definitely a night owl
66. Who is striving to be a morning person
67. But not really succeeding
68. I believe the worst part of being a woman is having to shave your legs
69. Well, that and having periods
70. I currently run the church bookstore
71. I’ve previously been on the children’s ministry staff and the Women in the Church council
72. I love to float in the pool
73. But I don’t like the beach
74. I like to play The Sims
75. I own way too many cookbooks
76. I love to sing Schoolhouse Rock songs
77. My head is too big to wear hats
78. I’m very self-conscious about that
79. I used to always peek at my Christmas presents
80. When I was 15, I peeked at one and when I saw it was a gold bracelet, I took it out and carefully re-wrapped the present, planning to put it back before Christmas morning
81. My mom found it in my purse first
82. But I was in the ER when she found it, so I didn’t really get into trouble – too much
83. When I was about 4, we lived in Pittsburgh in the same apartment complex as several Pittsburgh Steelers players
84. While playing in the sandbox, Mean Joe Green came up and sat with me and I ran screaming home to my mom because I was scared. He followed me home and apologized to my mom for scaring me. Hey, did you ever see Mean Joe Green up close?
85. At Halloween, I was too scared and/or embarrassed to trick-or-treat at his apartment so my sister asked for extra candy for me
86. I have the most wonderful kids in the world. I know you probably think yours are, but I’m right
87. I have issues with being right (see #’s 20, 21, 22, 23 and 85)
88. My parents made me move in my senior year of high school
89. I still haven’t forgiven them for it
90. I’m a procrastinator
91. I think Crockpots are one of the best inventions in history
92. It seems that we always end up with weird neighbors – they are either extremely anti-social, totally dysfunctional, or (I swear I am not making this up!) bigamists with two separate families at the same time who vacation together! Ick!
93. I am 39, but never remember how old I am. I seem to always tell people I’m one year younger Not intentionally, I just forget. But this has nothing to do with #23
94. I’m a registered Republican, but wish there was a “Christian” party – where the poor and needy are cared for and Biblical values are respected. Why is that so hard?
95. Jesus died for me
96. I seek to serve Him and do His will
97. I fail, but He forgives
98. I like to talk, but doing this list has been really challenging
99. I wouldn’t change anything in my past because it made me who I am today
100. I’m finally done with this list!

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