Seven Things About Me

Jill has tagged me. I have to tell you seven things about myself and then I am supposed to tag seven others. I'm just going to do the list and you can consider yourself tagged if you want. Although, I'd love to tag my sister Laura.

Well...

1. My birthday is Valentine's Day. I'll be 35 this year.

2. I always thought I'd have sons. I couldn't be more thankful for my beautiful girls though. Maybe they will have boys and I can have grandsons.

3. In real life I am kind of quiet and shy. I have actually offended people unintentionally and made them think I didn't like them because of this. Clearly it's an area that I need to be mindful of because I don't want to hurt others, even if it is my nature to sit back and let Jason do the talking. Now I'm not unfriendly, just not all that outgoing. I am definitely an introvert.

4. I taught in a public school for three years before having children. I thought homeschoolers were, well, odd...and maybe a little misguided. Then I met a few joyful homeschoolers with smart, outgoing, and normal children. I am thankful for those families.

5. I won the first grade jump rope contest at my elementary school for jumping 126 times and had my picture in the paper. Very exciting for sure. I didn't even mess up; I just quit because I got tired.

6. I was a summer missionary between 11th and 12 th grade. I worked with other high school and college age missionaries in the inner city of Houston, TX. I was away from home for 10 weeks. Jason and I fell in love by letter writing that summer. Neither of us had email or cell phones of course (it was 1990). I think we had one real phone conversation the whole summer. And my dad wrote me every day I think...he definitely wrote me the most, even if the letters were brief. I remember a first class stamp was 25 cents.

7. I have no clue what I want to be when I grow up (meaning when my kids grow up!).