100 Things About Me

I've been working on this for awhile now. I've seen this on numerous blogs, so now here's mine. :)

1. I've been married 20+ years
2. My husband & I eloped
3. I’ve birthed 11 babies
4. I always wanted a large family
5. I have had one homebirth
6. I’ve had 4 c-sections
7. I prayed for my first child to be born late so he was born on my grandpa’s birthday.
8. My first child was 10 days late, born on my grandpa’s birthday!
9. I love hymns
10. My very favorite music group is Karey & Kelly Nickel
11. I’ve been a Christian since age 12
12. I am pro-life
13. I used to be a legal secretary
14. I also used to work at a stock brokerage
15. I don’t understand anything about stocks & bonds
16. I was adopted
17. I found my birthparents after I was married
18. My birth dad is mostly Greek
19. My favorite candy growing up was Candy Corn
20. Found out it was my birth moms too
21. I have one sister I grew up with
22. I have 7 biological siblings, most of whom I’ve met
23. I went to public school
24. I always liked typing
25. I went to a Baptist College and got a two year secretarial degree
26. I was baptized with my sister on New Years Eve when I was 19 years old
27. I like to knit
28. I like to crochet
29. I LOVE to emboss and make cards
30. I LOVE to make bracelets
31. I like to sew
32. I don't have the patience with hard patterns and give up too easily
33. I LOVE to do scrapbooking
34. I love taking pictures
35. I like to read
36. I used to do a lot of cross-stitching
37. I don’t watch much TV
38. I’d love to go on a cruise sometime
39. I’d love to go to Hawaii sometime
40. I have never been out of the USA
41. I’d love to go to Australia
42. I didn’t get my driver’s license ‘til I was almost 20
43. I love dogs
44. My dad use to give the news on a radio station
45. I grew up near Milwaukee
46. I like the smell of beer being made in Milwaukee
47. I don’t drink beer!
48. I don’t like sports
49. But I like to watch the Olympics
50. I used to love to swim
51. I make bread from scratch
52. I even grind the whole wheat berries
53. I am NOT a morning person
54. But I could stay up all night (scrapbooking, making cards)
55. I like to listen to a Christian radio station
56. I love baby lambs
57. I look forward to grandchildren
58. I stay in touch with a friend from third grade
59. I don’t play any musical instruments
60. I wish I would have learned to play the piano
61. I took one semester of piano in college
62. I got a “D” in the class – I met my husband that semester!
63. I used to have a licensed daycare
64. I don’t have one favorite color
65. But I like sage green and burgundy the most
66. I collect “Naturewood” Pfaltzgraff stoneware
67. I used to collect Precious Moments
68. I sold most but kept special ones
69. I light candles almost everyday
70. I like using “real” silverware
71. I don’t dye my hair
72. I have just a few “white” hairs
73. I usually pull them out
74. I rarely wear make-up
75. I love chocolate – too much
76. “Take 5” is my favorite candy bar
77. This is why I wear plus size clothing
78. I love 100% cotton clothes
79. CJ Banks clothing is my favorite
80. I like wearing denim jumpers
81. I love to go to Good Will
82. I like e-Bay
83. I don’t like to cook
84. I do like baking, sometimes
85. Angel Food Cake is my favorite cake
86. I make it from scratch – a dozen egg whites
87. Now one of my daughters makes it though
88. Mexican food is my favorite
89. I love Greek Gyros though
90. Olga’s Kitchen is one of my favorite restaurants
91. But so is Don Pablos Mexican Restaurant
92. I don’t like Italian food much
93. I’ve had the same e-mail address for over 10 years!
94. I’ve never had my “own” car
95. I’d like a PT Cruiser!
96. I don’t like balloons
97. I do at least 4 loads of wash a day
98. We have 2 washers and 2 dryers
99. I like to hang wash outside
100. I will spend eternity in heaven

If you have one of these on your blog . . . let me know! :)