10 Surprising Things About Me

I was casually reading friends blogs the other morning when I realized I was being called out. I love to read family blogs. I love to peak into others lives. I was surprised by the tag and yet grateful for the inspiration. It has been doormat lately. So thank you to Lillian @ Smithflections for the call out! Now onto the task. I try to be open about everything, sometimes I am too open I am told. So I will try for surprise, but might not get there.

10 Surprising Things about me:
1) I want to be a published author when I grow up. I have started several books. So many thoughts going around in my head. I have ideas for fiction and picture books. I have home school aide ideas, travel book ideas, and several children faith based book ideas.

2) My most organized book that I have started is one on parenting. I have 20 chapters started with an introduction and a conclusion. It is rough but good. I just don't know where to go with it. I have divided 20 very specific ideas into 20 chapters filled with a specific thoughts on parenting with advice and examples.

3) I am a very jealous person. I am most jealous of my own children. They have the neatest relationship with their dad and with each other. I am so thankful that my husband is everything I looked for when I was dating and that my children don't know how blessed they are. It means they don't know any different. Sometimes when I listen to Pooker talk with her dad my heart just aches with joy for her. Jason is a dad that is fun and happy and his kids know they are loved. He protects them from the world and yet lets them be real. They have no idea how rare he is and how their lives will be so much better because of him.

4) I wish I was more like my children for so many reasons. Pooker is so strong and amazing. Goobers is so loving and forgiving. Bear is so smart and funny. Sugar is so confident and so beautiful. Possible is open and doesn't know a stranger. Pickle is solid, right is right and wrong is wrong. Princess knows that she is loved and walks like a princess. Bagel is reserved and observant. Jumba is full of joy and loves everyone. They are all so close. They are best friends with each other. They know their own faults and those of their siblings and still love each other without condition. The world could take a huge lesson from this remarkable group of people.

5) My heart breaks for all my lost friends, those that I lost because of my own arrogance and stubbornness. I wish I was a better to friend. I work to be more trust worthy and kind. I feel guilty about any pain I have caused my loved ones.

6) I continually seek to learn. I don't think a degree is as important as knowledge but I am seeking the best and most affordable way for me to obtain a degree in Child Development or a related field.

7) It is rare when I have slept through the night. It started with the pregnancy that gave us Bagel and it comes and goes. I suspect all issues will balance out after all the woman changes have passed.

8) I desire a stronger faith with my whole being and yet fight my own laziness when it comes to implementing ideas that will strengthen it.

9) I love my friends and family but always fear that they will be at the door. Our home is always a mess. I lack good house cleaning skills and would much rather spend my time with my children than cleaning up after them. It does embarrass me but I don't really think it is something that I will change. I once knew a woman that would openly criticize people like me and say that we were letting down out husbands and God. Then I would look at her children and then at mine. My children are kind and hers were mean.

10) I have little patience for fake people and for those that mock others. I admire those that are not politically correct but are true to themselves. I respect the intellectuals but they loose it when they mock others. I might misspell a word here or there and I might forget punctuation but it doesn't mean I am not just as smart. I might not be as smart, so what, it doesn't make you more important. I respect faithful Christians but loose it when they judge those that don't live like them. I respect the medical world but loose it when that same world thinks that generalities need to be laws. I respect the physically fit and the natural eaters but loose it when they want to force their ideals on me.


Those are things that you might not know about me. I don't know if the intention was for such reflection but I have enjoyed this little exercise of my own thoughts.