I couldn’t access Typepad until tonight – it wasn’t working for me earlier. So I skipped the Thursday 13 Thing, and went with this instead!

10 Years Ago:

            * I had no belief in God.

            * I had no children.

            * I didn’t know how much I really didn’t know about, well, everything.

  * I wasn’t really on speaking terms with my only sister.

  * I was about to meet God, my daughter, and my husband – in that order.

  * I’d dropped out of college recently.

  * I’d already realized I wasn’t good at drinking and given it up (at age 20).

5 years ago:

* We had only two children, and one of them was quickly turning into The       Tornado With Legs.

* I understood how little I knew about, well, everything.

* We were almost always broke, and I assumed money was the answer to our problems.

* We were trying to save money to get out of our run down rent house in a neighborhood full of drug dealers.

* We decided to put off moving in order to send our oldest to a Christian school we otherwise couldn’t afford. (Great decision, too!)

* I was toying with the idea of writing a book, but was too scared to tell anyone.

* My husband was about to start his own company, but we didn’t know it yet.

1 year ago:

            * Had an amazing year financially and realized money was never the answer.

            * Had written one novel, learned from it, and written most of a second one.

            * Had three children and was scared stiff at the realization that we were expecting another!

* God and I got pretty close.

* Husband started seriously considering building his own office building.

*  Stressing about being in a friend’s wedding in a dress that may or may not fit once I started ‘showing.’ (I didn’t show until 7 months with this one, and no one even knew I was pregnant at the wedding.)

          * My sister and I are very close and talk constantly.

Yesterday:

          * My father was in town – staying with me, even!

* I sang to my baby.

* I read books to the boys.

* I flirted shamelessly with my husband.

* I forgot, and wore my slippers when I went to do an errand. Oops.

5 songs I know all the words to:

          * Trashy Women, by Confederate Railroad (I LOVE that song – don’t laugh!)

          * This never ceases to amaze my husband, but EVERY single Garth Brooks song there is.

          * Lucille, by Kenny Rogers  (sing it with me… “Ya picked a fine time to leeeeeave me, Lucille…”)

          * You Can Call Me Al, by Paul Simon (actually, any song on ‘

Graceland

          * Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel

5 things I’d do with a million dollars

          * Tithe, and give lots.

* Pay off all debt, including the house.

          * Buy my mother a BMW, who has secretly always wanted one.

          * Annuities, baby. (is that boring? Sorry – husband owns financial advising company)

          * Install formal hedges all around house and espaliered apple trees, because they are so gorgeous.

5 places I’d run away to:

            *

Kauai

            *

Fredericksburg

,

TX

            * Where my mother lives

            * Where my sister lives

            *

Maui

5 things I’d never wear:

* flip flops. Can you say ‘toe wedgies?’ Ew.

* earrings. (not on principle, just because they’re not pierced)

* false eyelashes

* a headband. I don’t like the dented hair look you get afterwards, the headache, and the way my ears look.

* a thong. (or, as my friend Cheryl says, ‘butt floss.’)

5 favorite toys:

            * laptop

            * the navigation map thing-y in the car

            * the kids’ wooden puzzles

            * books

            * TiVo

5 favorite books or TV shows

          * anything Kristin Billerbeck

* anything John Eldredge

          * Marriage Changing: The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands by Dr. Laura Schlessinger

          * Finance Changing: The One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen and some other guy whose name I can’t remember

* Ephesians

5 greatest joys

            * God

            * Mike

            * All four kids, equally

            * My mom and sister, equally as well

            * Amazing church family

5 people I tag for this

            You, you, you in the red, you on the laptop, and the blonde with the nice eyes.

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