Day 31 A Weird Quirk About Me!

Day 31 already, the past month has gone by so fast and I actually have killed two birds with one stone. I got my blog rolling again and I have blogged at least 10 days a month with this. I got 21 in February and 10 in March. I might do another 31 day challenge or I might just take some ideas from a challenge. I really have enjoyed this. So for the final day, a weird quirk about me.

My family definitely has some weird quirks. Things like my grandma and my uncle can't talk on the phone without their glasses. If the phone rings in the middle of the night they have to find their glasses first. My weird quirk is that if someone asks me to smell something or I am trying to smell something. I have to have complete silence. I mean like no noise at all. If there is noise in the background I can't smell. I know, I know it's weird. I think it's because any noise would distract me and if you ask me to smell something I want to concentrate on it and I want to be able to smell it all. Sometimes though this backfires on me like especially if the smell stinks LOL! I know it's a crazy weird quirk but it's true.

Day 30 Favorite Comfort Food

My Favorite Comfort Food is homemade macaroni cheese. I think thats probably tops the chain of comfort foods. No matter what you make to go with it, macaroni and cheese. If you add bbq sauce or ketchup it brings it to a whole new level. My favorite homemade mac and cheese is my granny's. She makes the most awesome macaroni and cheese. Its cheesy like if it's made with velveeta cheese but it's not. I know the cheese is the cheese she buys here in Iowa and while there are the types of the cheese available. She uses american cheese but I haven't seen the brand anywhere outside of Iowa. It makes it cheesy and gooey. Nothing seems to make things better (other than a good cry mentioned a couple days ago) a good hot bowl of homemade mac and cheese.

Day 28 Last time I cried

Last time I cried was watching my friend Angela's wedding. They were happy tears. I am so happy for her and her husband. I love seeing people fall in love and find the one they are going to spend the rest of their life with. Her and her husband are a truly sweet and amazing couple. She was a beautiful bride and he is a devoted friend and husband. 

Day 27 What makes me feel better, always

I am typical girl I guess with this, because I think that for most of the time nothing makes me feel better than a good cry. I know it doesn't "fix" any problems but sometimes it does the best thing I can do or the only thing I can do. I know know crying doesn't solve any problems but sometimes its all you can do. I even have put on a sappy movie if I need to feel better. I know it's crazy, however it works.

Day 25 My Best Physical Feature.

I would say my best physical feature is my eyes. I love my eyes especially when I am wearing makeup. I have learned that purple eyeshadow or even brown/goldish eye shadow.

Day 24 A difficult Time in my life.

Everyone encounters difficult times in their life and depending on their past experience something that isn't a difficult time for you but would be world changing for someone else. I think a life changing difficult time in my life was when my mom was diagnosed with cancer and died 8 years later. I was 9 years old when she was diagnosed and 17 when she passed away. It was a long hard period of time there. I remember thinking so many times that I wondered if I would make it through. I believe that God healed my mom by taking her home to heaven. There are so many days when I miss my mom and wish she was just a phone call away. I still remember her cell phone number. So many times since I was 9 I wish my mom could have been a "normal" mom. That she didn't have to be so sick and that her cancer could be gone. So many times since I was 17 and she was gone I wish I could have called her or seen her. I missed her on my graduation and wedding day and the time during when I was moving to help with packing and going through pictures and family memories. While time has definitely healed the biggest parts of missing her there are still moments when I miss her incredibly.

Day 22 My10 favorite songs

My 10 favorite songs as of right now:

1. We wait for you
2. God Gave Me You
3. Deep Cries Out
4. Shake Heaven
5. Desert Song
6. you are more
7. Cinderella
8. You and Me
9. Hanging by a moment
10. Chasing Cars

Day 21 Something I miss

I could list a thousand things and people I miss to narrow this down took some serious thinking, but I have decided to write about one thing I think I miss the most.


I miss when life was simple. As a kid life was so simple you got up and and went to school and came home and did chores and it was simple. Relationships were simple. The worst thing that could happen in a relationship as a kid was someone didn't played with someone else or your favorite toy would break. (I know realistically that a lot of kids there is a lot of things that can happen that are a lot worse) Life was so simple when we keep relationships simple. As we grow up relationships become complicated. Stress of life makes emotions to run high and people to over react. Several years ago family was all that mattered and families and friends worked everything out and stayed connected forever. Now a days it's not. People get so upset about petty things and get then things get complicated. There are so many things that pull you so many different directions as an adult that you don't have to worry so much about before you graduate high school. I look back and my biggest concern was passing my high school classes. As an adult there are bills to pay cars and homes to maintain. You get pulled in so many directions and life goes by so fast that if we don't take the time to simplify our life it we will wake up one day at the end of our life stressed out and exhausted.

Let's take our time now to simplify our lives. I think not only will you and your immediate family appreciate but everyone you come into contact with will be too.

Day 20 Where I want to be in 10 years

In 10 years I will be almost 40...Whoa lets just think about that for a minute. I can't believe that that makes me even a little more scared of turning 30 next year and thats turning 40 I mean I can't even wrap my mind around that it wasn't that long ago that I thought 30 was a long way off. So back to the topic at hand Where do I want to be in 10 years. I would love to be homeschooling our kids hopefully we will have 2 kids then. Our house should be paid off in that time. Maybe just maybe in 10 years we could look at still building a house, not sure how that will work. We love our house and Jeremy is adamant that he is never moving again until he's dead ha! I however would still love to build a house just for us (don't think it will happen though). I would love to have the ministry into it's own office building and reclaim our 5th bedroom in our house as a kids bedroom or guest bedroom or a joint office for Jeremy and I. I would love to maybe open an etsy shop in that time because I would love to say that I have had time to create and make. Another thing I would love to see happen is that the Jeremy and I can also travel speaking to churches and encouraging them. I would also love to start being able to ministering to wives who have a husband with "handicaps". It's been on my heart. 

It's a little hard to say where I want to be in 10 years because 10 years ago I was a young 19 year old girl. The only thing that is the same from 10 years ago is I live in Iowa. I never would have imagined 10 years ago moving back to Florida and get married and never thought I would be back in Iowa. To top that never thought I would have bought a house in Iowa either ever. 

I definitely believe in making plans and always having a goal, but I have always have learned that when you leave your life in God's hands nothing is predictable and it's the best adventure in life you can ever imagine. So while I have my ideas of where I want to be in 10 years God's plans and ideas are always better and always more fun!!!

Day 19 My worst Habits

Oh ouch! My worst habits this is kinda an ouchy blog because nobody wants to point out their flaws or worst anything. I really bad habit and the worst one I have is that I can't say no very easily. It's great for other people because it gets them help. However for Jeremy and I it's bad because I get overcommitted and then I stress out a lot towards Jeremy. I am working on it more now that we have moved and it definitely has made us happier saying no more and more. Saying no doesn't come easy because I like helping people and like putting people before myself and I have learned you can't take care of people or help people if you aren't taking care of yourself and helping yourself. I also learned that everything you say yes to you are saying no to something or someone else. I have decided that I want to say yes more to my husband and no to the unnecessary things. So hopefully this wont be my worst habit for much longer!!!!1

Day 18 What am I afraid of?

This is a loaded question we all have fears. I have some normal fears like spiders; it is a lot better than it was when I was little now its more like I don't care for them not so much a huge fear other than brown recluse spiders. For a long time I have had a crazy fear of taking long car trips with just Jeremy and I. We had a van that was horrible it was always breaking down and we couldn't depend on it at all. We actually got stranded in a little town in Missouri for a week and no one could ever figure out was wrong with our van and it made me so nervous because when it would die it would just die with no warning. We could have been going down the interstate and it was such a safety issue for us. So I had a horrible fear after that. It has taken a long time close to 3 years to get over most of it but i am still hesitate to jump in the car and drive on a trip. I think another fear I have now that we live up north is getting in a bad accident in the winter time. I just don't do a lot of winter driving. I was in a bad accident when I was about 4 or 5 where we hit a patch of black ice. I am thankful though that a lot of my winter driving has just been around town and not any long stretched on the highway especially when its been snowing and icy. I guess thats the major ones. I try hard to not focus on them because they can control your life and I do not want fear to control my life, because the Bible says that God does not give us a spirit of fear.

Day 17 Favorite Childhood Book!

My favorite childhood book, now thats a tough one. I loved reading as a child. I still love reading even now as an adult. I could read for hours and hours. I will only take me a couple of days of reading if its a good book to finish pretty much any book. The quickest I ever read a book was on a flight.My flight from Pensacola to Atlanta is roughly an hour and half and I read Heaven is for Real in less time than that. So to pick a favorite book is hard. I would say its actually a series of books. It was the Mandie series. They are written by Lois Gladys Sheppard. I think the last time I checked there are roughly 60 books in the series. They run about 150 pgs a book. If anyone knows of any young girls roughly starting around age 8 through age 12 they are a great series of books. Plus they are a christian based book. The story is set in the early 1900's in North Carolina. This is the way they look now. They come in volumes of like 3-5 of the books into one.

Day 15 A timeline of my day!

My timeline of my day varies from day to day. So I am going to give you an outline of my week.

Monday: Jeremy has his aide come and help him which makes it an easy day for me. I like to try and catch up on laundry and straighten the house.

Tuesday: It's Jeremy and I all day long. Usually I catch up on anything from I didn't get done on monday or any other day.

Wednesday: Jeremy's aid comes again. I have Bible Study with my Grandma and my aunt during the day. We also have Church on Wednesday night.

Thursday: This has become one of my favorite days. We go over to my grandmas house to play cards and eat dinner with her and my grandpa and a family friend.

Friday: Jeremy's aid comes again. My weekly schedule is fluid in the sense that I might have errands to run or dr appts to take my aunt or my grandma too. I have even started picking up little projects like sewing and my blog and shortly doing a diy on our dining room table.

Saturday: I usually do my lesson plans for childrens church and get ready for church on Sunday.

Sunday; We have church sunday morning and recently we have been going to my grannys house on sunday afternoon after church and lunch. Than its an early relaxing night at home for us.

Day 14 What is in my handbag?

In my purse as of right now is my Bible, wallet, some receipts, a pen, and some eye drops. I think thats it. However I rarely carry my purse anywhere. I make sure I have it Sunday morning and Wednesday Bible Study. So I have my Bible. However most of the time I just need my wallet and carry it with me most of the time. Not a very interesting purse list. I might also on occasion have a random set of tools and a few straws. Not a long list however thats it.

Day 13 My Favorite Quote!

I have a lot of quotes I have liked over the years and have used but this particular one has been a favorite currently.

Day 12 If I won the Lottery

This is kinda an interesting topic considering the recent powerball was $564 million dollars. Whoa! Can you say lots of dough!? Ha I don't even know what I would do with that much money seriously. I know what I could do with maybe around 100 grand. I think the first thing we would do is tithe of it. Jeremy and I made a commitment a few years ago that no matter what any money we get in we tithe off of it. So that takes care of the first thing. Next would be pay off our house and than I would want to splurge and buy me a really nice new car. We would put money into savings a good chunk. We would tithe again off of it to the ministry we run right now that we would give a lot of it away I think in the long run. I would also love to take a nice vacation maybe overseas. Than we would give a lot of the money away to people who needed it mostly I would think it would be close family and friends. I think we would make sure that our household would be taken care of and then kinda go from there. However though it's really hard to win the lotto when you don't play the lotto so heres to pipe dreams.

Day 11 Most Proud Moment.

I don't know that I could just pick one proud moment. I guess what I thinking would actually accumulates a few moments in time. My high school graduation would probably be the first one of my proud moments, than it would be moving into my apartment, than getting married, than selling our house and than buying our house here in Iowa. I think those are my most proud moments because for me it represented so many "adult" life changing moments. I remember getting ready to move into my own apartment and the fear I had about what happens if I fail or I can't do it. However I did it I had my own apartment for 3 years before I meet and married Jeremy. Getting married it was definitely one of the biggest decisions I have ever made. When we decided to move to Iowa and all the stuff that comes with moving it was a big deal. Than going to the bank and getting financing for our house and being able to do that without having to have anyone co sign for us was huge for me and picking out our house and buying it was another proud moment. I think these are the ones that stick out the most because each one of them were the opening and closing of chapters in my life.

Day 10 First Celebrity Crush...

I was never really someone who had crushes growing up. A lot of the girls my age their crush was JTT and if you around my age no explanation on the initials. For the rest of yall that would be Jonathon Taylor Thomas. However not my thing. I think the first celebrity "crush" I had would have been Heath Ledger. However I wouldn't even really say it was a crush more of that I liked a lot of his work after seeing him in the Patriot. I just never really had crushes on celebrity maybe because I am fairly realistic and I knew that there would be no chances of anything so why have a crush. I had lots of crushes on guys just never really any celebrities.

Day 9 Piercings and Tattoos?

Well this is going to be a short one. I have my ears pierced and no tattoos. I have had my ears pierced twice and my cartilage pierced twice as well however I had several issues with my cartilage and have had to let both piercings close. Short and sweet and to the point.

Day 8 An old Picture of me

So you actually you get two older pictures of me. The first one was taken about 6 years ago and the bottom one was taken about 26 years ago.