I Have Been Tagged!

Okay, this is the first time I have ever been tagged...probably because not many people have the link to this boring blog. LOL! I was tagged by my friend Jessica and quoting from her blog here are the rules: "The point of this fun game is to answer the questions, then tag 4 of your friends and post their names on your blog. Might want to leave them a message telling them they've been tagged. Oh, and I make a new rule: absolutely no retagging."

Where Were You 10 Years Ago?

10 Years ago…hmmm… Feb. 1998, if I remember right that was our first winter in this house and the boys would have been 8 and nearly 5. (My goodness it is hard to remember that long ago….) I think that would have been the first year that I was homeschooling both of the boys…Jared in Kindergarten and Adam in 3rd, we skipped around some back then which is why he never really knew what grade he was in! I also was selling Pampered Chef at that time.

5 Things On My To-Do List:

Only 5? That is funny!!!

1. Get everything ready for Word of Life Teens' Involved, which is next weekend, March 1st. We need to get paper work around and get copies made among other things.

2. Start getting things around for the Word of Life sleepover which is in a 3 weeks. Yes, Word of Life keeps me busy!

3. Try to figure out how to keep Jared on task and motivated to get his school done before 5:00 PM every day. This is an ongoing thing for me and would appear on my To Do list each and every day!

4. We just started the brand new Beth Moore Bible study at church on Monday, "Stepping Up: A Journey through the Psalm of Assents", so I want to be able to keep on top of my homework. I can all ready tell it is going to be an awesome study, and I don't want to get behind.

5. Work on more layouts for Adam's graduation open house…specifically baby and toddler photos, actually any photos before about 1999, which means I only have about 10 years of photos to go through between now and June! YIKES!! Okay, I don't have any aspirations of scrapping all of them, but I do want to go through them and pick out the highlights of those times.

3 Bad Habits:

{Gulp…once again…only 3? Okay, maybe there are only 3 that I want to tell about!}

1. Jessica, this one ought to make you feel better… I get up between most days between 7:00 and 7:30, but with the exception of Tuesday when I need to get in the shower and ready to go before 7:15 since Emma's dad drops her off, other days I am lucky to be in the shower by noon! (I can't really believe I am admitting this here!} We start school and once I get started on it I don't want to stop to get myself around so don't end up getting out of my pjs until later. I guess that is one advantage of being a homeschool mom, but it just sounds as if I am lazy!

2. Not posting on my blog more often. I tell myself ALL OF THE TIME that I will post at least once a week, but it never seems to happen.

3. I am a packrat, but I get it naturally, from my dad and from my grandpa before him. I am an organized messy, and I hate getting rid of things cause you just never know when you might need them. {blush}

Places I Have Lived:

1. Kewanna, IN: little tiny town where I live for my first year, so I don't remember it at all.

2. Rochester, IN,- from the time I was 1 until the summer before my 8th grade year.

3. Argos, IN: bigger than Kewanna, but not much! This is where I went to high school and graduated from and lived until Mark and I got married in 1985.

4. Warsaw, IN: From the time we got married until 1988.

5. Elkhart, IN: Fall 1998 to present. (2nd house though.)

As you can see I am true Hoosier at heart since I have lived her all of my life, always moving a little farther north with each town where I have lived. Hopefully the next move will be south…..way south…where there won't be snow!

Things Most People Don't Know About Me:

I don't know how many people know these things, but I guess they are worth mentioning.

1. I inhaled a carpet tack when I was just a toddler and had to be rushed to the hospital, but no damage was done.

2. My dad was Chief-of-Police in Argos, which is why we moved there, and so I had to be a good girl. :)

3. I got married less than a year after I graduated from high school and didn't have our first baby until 4 years later.

4. We have hosted 2 incredible exchange students, who I both count as daughters…Marica from Serbia, (2000-2001), and Nathalie from Germany, (2001-2002, and has come back to visit twice, Aug. 2003, (or was it 2004 the first time?), and Aug. 2006.)

Here Are The Lucky People I Tag:

1. Gena

2. Heather

3. Sharmin

Now, remember, no tag backs, girls!