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8 Things I'm Passionate About
My kids, my husband, my faith, my job, my extended family, adoptive parenting, blog reading, and book reading
8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die
see my kids grow up, change my job just a bit to do new things with my current job (vague, sorry), see my marriage grow and improve, quit my job (eventually!), take a photography course (love it, but not that good at it), grow my relationships with my siblings, find a church family that I feel totally united with. Last one here is totally a dream, but who knows... I'd like to take classes in reconciliation studies (kind of a sociology/economics/race relations/history thing).
8 Things I Say Often
"Let's move it, Crazies!" "Hey! Respect your brother's words!" "How can you ask politely?" "Hush!" "You're my boy!" "Where are your shoes?" "Do you need to use the bathroom?" and "I love you!"
8 TV Shows I've Watched Recently
Hmmm... Stargate Atlantis (Beloved and I are watching the first season together, except sometimes I don't watch the scary ones), Design on a Dime, Extreme Makeover (there was a marathon over Christmas sometime and I watched two episodes. Made me feel ugly and discontented, so probably won't watch again.)
I'm gonna change the meme a bit, just because, and make the last ones books I've read recently...
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin, God of the Possible by Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation by Gregory A. Boyd, The American Dream and the Power of Wealth by Heather Beth Johnson, and I'm working on doing better at regular Bible reading again.
8 Songs I Would Listen To Over and Over
I'm going to change this one, too, and name 8 artists I'm listening to a lot lately...
KT Tunstall, Corrine Bailey Rae, Common, John Legend, John Mayer, Coldplay, Raffi and Sarah Hickman (last two are the boys' current favorites). It's clear to me looking at this list that I do not have really sophisticated musical taste.
8 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friends
Ooo... Let's see... My friends are gracious, hard working, humble (don't know everything and they're okay with that), un-self-conscious, generous, critical thinkers, accepting, and best of all kind enough to love me in spite of my flaws!
8 Things I've Learned This Past Year
I can't do it all, but I'll still do alright! I think I've learned the same thing in about 8 different ways this last year!
Not sure the proper blog etiquette but I would love to hear more about where you work and how you are balancing work with home etc. I work full time in marketing right now and it is a struggle.
It is great to get to know you better...thanks for sharing your 8 things.
Posted by: Leh | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 05:34 PM
I am reading Heather's book now. I'd love to see you post about it. What did you think?
Posted by: cloudscome | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 07:29 AM