Challenge Day #28 Ta da! That's all folks!

What 10 things would I most like to be remembered by? 1) Amy loved the Lord 2) Amy was a good mommy. 3) Amy was a good wife. 4) Amy was a good daughter. 5) Amy was a good sister. 6) Amy was a good aunt. 7) Amy always cheered us up. 8) Amy loved family time. 9) Amy was a loyal friend. 10) Amy was a FABULOUS housewife! ;p So, I felt like I was writing my obit and I had to throw something crazy in there just to ease my mind a little. It's been real and it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun! I found another challenge for March, but some of it was repetitive from this months. Maybe I will create my own after a much needed break! Hope ya'll learned enough about me to understand some of the crazy stuff I do! I'll be blogging in a few days to catch up my regular posts. One is really exciting.......... Stay tuned! I've finally picked up my readers again and don't want ya to lose interest again!

Challenge Day #27 Only one more day, Hallelujah!

What do people sometimes misunderstand me about? I would have to say where I cut up alot and try to be funny, people will take me serious and get their feelings hurt. Most people know how to take me by now, but it still happens. When this does happen I wish they would just tell me instead of later trying to guess what's wrong or find out by somebody else. I would never hurt someone's feelings intentionally. As matter of fact, I can't stand the thought of knowing someone is mad or upset at me. I will always try to smooth it over real quick. I can be mad at you, but you CAN'T be mad at me. Lol So if I'm ever laughing and crack a joke I totally am not trying to be mean and would have never said it if I knew it would be taken wrong. Now for those of you wondering who I have ticked off lately, I haven't! At least that I know of! Ha ha

Challenge Day #26

What is my love language? I googled Love Language just to see exactly what it meant. I mean I thought I knew and I was like ok, I'm probably not going to let everybody all up in my marriage business, ya know! What I found out was Love Language isn't necessarily meaning just between couples, but between everybody. What makes you react to other people? Makes you more of a likeable person. Like I said, I googled Love Language and came up with these 5 types. 1)Words of Affirmation-This is basically people who have to hear over and over that they are loved. They like to be praised and encouraged. It is also important how these words of endearment are given in order to be appreciated. 2)Quality Time-This is just making special time for each other whether it's going for a walk or out to dinner alone. It is very important to not have any distractions such as cell phones or the newspaper or whatver. Just one on one special time with each other. 3)Gifts-Money can't buy love, right? Well, in this case it sure does help. This type of person thinks gifts are important. It's not the gift that counts to them, but the thoughtfullness behind it. Like how much trouble did he spend on finding this item? How much thought was put into this gift? 4)Acts of service- Can vaccumming the floors really be an expression of love? Absolutely! This type of person feels so special when some of their responsibilty of household chores is shared by someone completely unexpected. It let's them know they are appreciated. Also, laziness and a person making even bigger messes for them to have to clean up makes them feel unloved. 5)Physical Touch- I'm not talking about "you know what" here, but I'm talking about touchy people. You know the type that always wants to hug, or always is patting someone. Some people are just more touchier than other people. That's just how they show people they love and care for them. So, now I suppose you want to know what my love language is being that is today's topic? Let's go through the list: Words of Affirmation- Nope, not me! I'm not much on words. Sometimes the syrupy the words the more false they are in my opinion. Not always, but some people are smooth talkers. Quality Time-No, not really me either. Too much quality time smothers me. I am a loner and I like my space. I do enjoy spending time with my husband alone without the kids, and spending time with my family and friends, but not all the time. I just like being home with my family. Gifts-No, not me either. I do not know how to accept gifts. I feel really weird when people give me stuff. On the other hand, I tend to be a little picky on what I am given sometimes. It won't be about the actual gift, but kind of the thought behind it. It it was a rushed last minute gift with little meaning, then it will usually bother me and I wish it wouldn't. Acts of service-Oh yeah!!!!! This is me! You want me to love ya! Then take some responsibility off of me sometimes! Sometimes Maynard will just get up from the dinner table and immediately wash dishes. It catches me by suprise and I can't explain the feeling I feel. Sometimes he will put the kids to bed or he will have them dressed for church before I can get to them. That is definitely my love language. Makes me feel loved and appreciated for all the hard work I normally do. Kinda makes you ready to tackle the next load of laundry. Physical Touch-NO No No No No! Touchy people around me make my hands sweat. I like for people to be at least an arms length away. Why am I like this? Maybe it was the way I was raised. We just knew we loved each other and didn't really feel the need to express it by hugging or whatever. I am trying to do that differently with my children, but it still has effected how I react to other people. So ya'll want me to love you more? Come clean my house. But I have to clean it first before you get here. Ha ha!

Challenge Day #25

Ok, some of you all have been anxiously awaiting today's topic. What is my most favorite body part and why? Hmmmm, I am having such a hard time deciding on this one. I mean I have soooo many favorite body parts that I hate to single just one out. Ok, so I'm joking. I have terrible self esteem about the way I look and I actually am having a hard time deciding what to pick. Ha! However, we are all fearfully and wonderfully made!!! I'm gonna say my most favorite body part is probably my "ELBOWS! Yep, my elbows are about as perfect as an elbow can get. They bend my arms just the right way it needs to. I've got smooth skin over them. I mean nobody ever looks at someone's elbows and declare how ugly they are. I'm sure there are a few rare cases out there. My elbows are never swollen in the morning. They are always ready to go to work everytime I need them. They have never let me down. So that is why my elbows are my most favorite body part!!! What would ya'll pick for your most favorite part? (on you, not me) lol

Challenge Day #24

Today's Challenge: What Popular notion does the world have wrong today? Goodness, there are lots of things that I could mention here that is going on in the world that I absolutely think is isane! I guess the most precious one to me is abortion. I grieve thinking about these women aborting babies. Especially the thought of them terminating now so late in the pregnancies. How about them say its not a baby, but a fetus and it doesn't feel any pain. I hate it! It's so hard when some of us that prayed and begged God for children and these other fertile myrtles kept getting pregnant and then would go kill their baby. It just seems so unfair sometimes. One of the 10 commandements is "Thou shalt not kill." I don't care how you look at it. It's kiling a baby and they are going to have to answer to it one day on judgement. However, God is a God of mercy and he can forgive them for what they did if they will just ask and believe. I'm pretty sure none of my followers are guilty of this. Just thought I would add that last part in case someone did happen to read that and needed to know of God's mercy!!! See ya'll tomorrow!!!! Make sure you check back in tomorrow. It's gonna be a very interesting topic. What is my most favorite body part. Ha ha Can't hardly wait!!!

Challenge Day #23

If I could eat dinner with anyone who would it be and what would I eat? I'm trying not to make this another tear jerker, I'm really not. I've been thinking about this all day about who I was gonna choose. I just can't help it. I would love to be able to eat with my Mamaw Ruby. She didn't cook a whole lot, but just a few things. Maybe fry up some sausage and some can biscuits when we got to stay all night with her on Friday nights. We would be sleeping on the couch in front of the freezing window air conditioner that blew right on the couch where we sat. The tv would be blasting the beloved Saturday morning cartoons that we rarely got to watch because we didn't have a tv at home. We would eat that sausage biscuit while sipping orange juice. Mamaw always had orange juice in the refrigerator. Whatever leftovers were left seem to sit on the stove all day. Why that's a vivid memory in my mind, I don't know. (The leftover breakfast) Two other things that Mamaw cooked was soup beans and biscuit bread and a picnic ham with potatoes. I loved to sit at the table and watch her pick through them beans one at a time. "Why you doing that, Mamaw?" "Because, you have to make sure there are no rocks in there and then you gotta wash them real good before you cook them. Then she would put them in the biggest crockpot I had ever seen and cook them ALL day. She would add her big ham bone she had kept from the ham and potatoes she had cooked a few days before. I can't hardly eat ham and potatoes now without thinking about her. I remember hearing her tell my Mom one day that she was gonna fix "Amy" some ham and potatoes because she knew I liked it. Anyway, those beans would be cooking all day. We would be gathered around the tv all day. lol Nah, not really. She only had about 4 channels and soon enough our options would be the news, football, racing, or some kind of ket documentary show. Then we would mosey on outside and play. Mamaw had a 24/7 yardsale and we would get out there and play and have a great time. She lived right beside a lake and we would walk down in the woods and pretend to fish. We were old enough to be careful so they didn't have to worry about us being outside alone and near the lake. We would get bored outside after a while and go back in to see if Papaw had any coke hid under his bed. If we didn't find any under there than we knew to check in mamaw's room in the cedar wardrobe. Otherwise, we had to drink the big gallons of syrupy grape or lemonade koolaid. Right before the beans would be done Mamaw would be in the kitchen starting to peel and fry potatoes. She would put them in the skillet in the now melted lard. Any of you all use lard? I never have and hope I never do. Thank goodness for Pam or vegetable spray. I rarely fry anything anymore. Then she would get out the flour add some water and milk and she would start mixing and roll out on a greased pan the best biscuit bread a person could ever eat. She hardly ever made cornbread, it was always biscuit bread. Now my Mom makes this and I make it every now and then. Spread grape jelly on there, and yum yum. We would all come grab a bowl and eat. It was so good! We would come back to visit later on in the week and when I would open the refigerator there in the bottom would be the big pot of beans. The top would be all crusted over and it would look disgusting. Why she left it in there so long I'll never know. But to this day, I will not eat left over soup beans, ever! That crusted top had completely done me in forever. There are no leftover soupbeans in this family the next day unless they have been frozen in ziplock bags properly. So, to answer the challenge question........ I want to go back to Mamaw's house and eat soup beans and biscuit bread. I want to sit at the table and watch her cook and show me how to make the biscuit bread as perfect as she always did!!!

Challenge Day #22

Today's challenge is what are 5 of my hobbies. I think that is a very good question. At this point in my life, I really don't have any hobbies. Here's what I enjoy doing, not necessarily a hobby though. 1)I enjoy instagram. 2)I enjoy blogging and reading blogs. 3)I enjoy walking outdoors. (hate the treadmill) 4)I love playing board games. 5) I also enjoy audio stories on cds as much as my kids do. There, I'm pretty sure no one shed any tears over this blogpost.