Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 10

Whew, I made it to the final day!! Woo-hoo!

Day 10--One Picture (of Yourself):

This was me when I was 19 (that seems so long ago now!). . .I'm thinking of growing my hair out to that length again (I miss braiding it!!!), but with side-swept bangs. Not sure if that combination would even look half-way decent, but that's what I'm *currently* thinking of doing, lol.

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 9

Wow--almost to the end!!

Day 9--Two Songs:

I have a whole playlist of songs that God has used to encourage me during the 'storms' of my life, but I will stick with two of my favorites for this post. . . .

1. Praise You in This Storm by Casting Crowns

2. No Matter What by Kerrie Roberts

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 8

Day 8--Three Films:

 1. The Last of the Mohicans--my all time favorite. 

2. Shooter--another one of my favorites.

3. Heartland--not a movie (it's a Canadian TV show about a girl who is something of a 'horse whisperer'), but definitely a favorite.

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 7

Day 7--Four Books:

1. The Bible. God's words written down for us--for which I am eternally grateful!

2. My Wolf, My Friend by Barbara Corcoran. Published in the '50s or 60's, I came across this book randomly at a yardsale when I was a little girl and it has been one of my absolute favorites ever since the first time I read it.

3. The Hobbit--another one of my all-time favorites.

4. Faith Deployed by Jocelyn Green--AMAZING devotional for military wives!!! It has been a HUGE source of encouragement since my hubby deployed. There is a second one out now as well called Faith Deployed...Again--which I have, but won't start until I have finished the first one.

Shoot--do I really have to stop at just four books? There are soooooo many I could talk about given the chance! Why wasn't this one the one matched with 10?

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 6

Day 6--Five Foods:

1. Bread: I. Love. It.

2. Beef Stew: one of my favorite comfort foods (with bread of course. . .and LOTS of it, ha ha).

3. Potatoes.

4. Chili (my Dad's recipe--it's a little different than the average Chili recipe. . .I'll post it on here sometime if anyone is interested).

5. Chinese Chicken and Broccoli (I missed this like crazy in Hawaii--there are plenty of Chinese restaurants over there, it's just that it is made a completely different way there or something as it is NOTHING like mainland Chicken and Broccoli!).

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 5

Day 5--Six Places:

1. Wherever my hubby is because that is home.

2. Hawaii--because it's where we got married.

3. Montana--I've always dreamed of going there one day.

4. Vermont--haven't been there yet, but it's such a pretty state.

5.  The British Isles--so much history and part of my heritage.

6. Afghanistan

Ten Day YOU Challege--Day 4

Day 4--Seven Wants:

1. For this deployment to end. =p

2. That this deployment would be a time of personal growth for my hubby and me as Christians--both as individuals as well as a couple.

3. For Munchkin to start listening more (ah, the Terrible Two's, ha ha).

4. To finish my online course well and learn a lot from it.

5. To read more.

6. To live faaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr away from anything and essentially be 'off the grid'. . .in a snowy climate and near mountains.

7. To be able to hug and be hugged by my hubby whenever I want.

 

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 3

Hello again! I think I'm setting some sort of a record for posts in one week for me (at least for the past year and a half probably, ha ha!). I hope you are enjoying hearing from me more frequently--though I can't promise that I will be able to keep this up long term, ha ha!


Anyhow, on to. . .

Day 3--Eight Fears:

1. That I'm failing as a mom. . .since I didn't babysit growing up I'm still 'learning as I go', sometimes I worry that I'm not doing a good enough job.

2. That I'll somehow manage to mangle our finances while my hubby is away. I think in some aspects that fear is somewhat helpful. . .it helps prevent me from making stupid financial decisions and makes me think twice (or well, maybe more like five or six times =p) about anything before I buy it, ha ha. ;)

3. That my horse is truly what he has been termed by some--a rogue--and may never be trainable. =(

4. That my hubby is going to get bored with my somewhat repetitive daily letters since my life doesn't vary much day to day, ha ha. =p

5. That my acne is never going to go away (seriously, what happened to it being just a teenage problem? Bleh).

6. Caterpillars. I'm serious. I know it's irrational--I can't even explain why I'm afraid of them. . .I used to play with them when I was a little kid (I LOVED Wooly Bears!!!)--I was still fine with them even after having a traumatic experience involving a Catalpa caterpillar when I was about 4 that still freaks me out to think about and getting stung once when I was probably 7 or 8. I'm not entirely sure when I developed this fear, I just know that sometime around the time I entered into the double-digits age-wise anytime I saw a caterpillar anywhere near me my heart would start beating faster--and each time I had to go in the chicken coop after the web-worms had left their nests I about died from the thought of one falling off of the overhead wire onto me (hey, it was a very real possibility--I've seen them falling from there!). I may or may not still have that same reaction at the thought of a caterpillar falling on me. The few times I have actually found a caterpillar on my clothes after walking through underbrush or sitting on the ground in the summertime for awhile have been the closest I have ever been to having a panic attack I think. Over a caterpillar. Like I said it's irrational. . . .

7. That I'll never be truly good at something. . .just mediocre in a few things.

8. The same things any wife of a deployed soldier fears--I just can't put them into words.

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 2

Nine Loves:

 

1. My Heavenly Father

2. My Amazing Hubby

3. My Crazy Munchkin

4. Animals

5. Photography

6. Snow

7. Reading

8. Doing things with my hands (e.g., puzzles, crocheting, sewing, cross-stitching, etc. I have a hard time sitting still without doing something with my hands. . .growing up if we were watching a movie I wasn't actually watching it--I would be listening to it and glancing up occasionally while working on a puzzle.)

9. Solitude (but with my hubby and son!)

Ten Day YOU Challenge--Day 1

So, I saw this on a friend's blog and thought it looked like fun. We'll see if I can stick with it to the end. =)

Ten Secrets:

Okay, so I don't really know if I have ten secrets and the secrets that I may/may not have aren't going to be published on this blog for all the world to see. . .sorry. That is why they are SECRETS. =p Soooo, with that being said I'll just change it to:


Ten Random Facts About Me:

1. I absolutely love wolves. When I was younger I wanted to grow up and be a biologist that studied wolves so I could help protect their species. I had pictures of wolves tacked up around my room that I'd saved from old calendars. . .I'll admit that I actually have a wolf calendar now as my "Countdown Calendar". =)

2. My favorite genre of music is instrumental movie scores. My favorite composers being Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, and occasionally James Horner (though he has a tendency to re-use themes from other movies in new movies, and it bothers me that he can't come up with entirely new music each time. . .don't believe me? There's a bit of Zorro, Willow, and possibly Troy [if I remember correctly--it's been a while since I listened to it all the way through] in the Avatar score--and that is just one example).

3. My husband and I were pen-pals for a year and a half before we ever met for the first time (my mom met him before I ever did!!), but that is a story for another post. . . .

4. I absolutely hate having water in my ears and generally have to use a q-tip to get it out after I shower every night (I blame my dad for passing this quirk on to me, ha ha).

5. I have a mixed heritage. . .I am 1/2 British (my dad is from England), and then a big mix of German, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, and a tiny bit of Native American (not sure what tribe. . .seems like my far-back family was too prejudiced to think of recording those things. . .we don't even know what her name was--she was apparently just referred to as the "Squaw". Makes me sad). My Grandfather's family were apparently German Jews who immigrated from Germany before/around WWI (I don't remember for sure when it was). . .they weren't practicing Jews I guess, because no one in my family knew anything about it until after my grandma passed away and we found a document stating that my grandfather's family were Jewish.

6. When I was 13 my dad, sister, and I went on a one month trip to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales--visiting family along the way. It was an incredible experience and I dream of going back again one day to so many of the places we visited--but this time with my husband and Munchkin(s) so they can share the experience with me.

7. I play the violin/fiddle. . .though not very well and it's been years since I was able to play it regularly. I wish I had brought it with me because I keep wanting to play it, but sadly it is in storage in Hawaii. I didn't have room to bring it with me when we moved. =(I am worried that it is going to be ruined in storage somehow by the time I get back to Hawaii.

8. I got bucked off a horse that I was thinking about buying the day before I discovered I was pregnant with Peanut Butter Cup. . .my hubby was videoing the whole time (you'd have thought he would have been too concerned to keep filming, but apparently not, ha ha =p)--and oh, how he loves to watch that video clip (and re-watch! Not to mention he showed it to anyone who came to our house for the next couple of months after that, ha ha). He likes to watch it in slow motion and then he watches it in slow motion going backwards. 

9. My hair used to be long enough for me to sit on. Then I started cutting it off in 10-inch increments to donate to Locks of Love (once each year until it got too short to cut off 10 inches and leave me with a length of hair that I was comfortable with).

10. Speaking of hair. . .I was born with jet black hair and my aunt nicknamed me "the little Indian baby" because of it. A short while later my hair turned red (yes, you read that right it turned red--it didn't fall out and then grow back in red), by the time I was 2 years old I had super light blonde hair (not quite white blonde, but close to it). It stayed that way for years and then slowly started getting darker until it reached it's current (and seemingly final) color that is something between a golden and a honey blonde.

So there you have it! Ten Random Facts About Me. =)