32 Things

I recently celebrated my 32nd birthday and thought I'd do a post about me...something I'm not very good at doing. I hope someday someone in my family might me interested to know some random things about me at this time in my life. So...

32 Things (you may or may not know)About Me

1. I am the proud mother of 2 beautiful kids and the wife of a wonderful husband.
2. I love gardening and getting my hands dirty trying to grow things.
3. I love being domestic and keeping a home, cooking, cleaning, canning, and all that kind of stuff.
4. I love being creative and usually have some crafty project I'm working on...scrapbooking, paper crafts, sewing, or other.
5. I'm very organized and love a clean and organized home. I've recently become a little famous or infamous for these skills and have helped others organized and clean their homes.
6. I love giving and receiving homemade gifts.
7. I got stung by a bee for the first time in my life this year.
8. Although I'm not the most graceful person in the world, I have avoided ever breaking any bones in my life.
9. I love classical and other more modern instrumental music...I've never really been into popular music much and my husband loves quizzing me when were listening to the radio to see if I know the artist...9 times out of 10 I don't.
10. I have been teaching piano lessons as a means to help my family financially for the past 5 years and love it.
11. My favorite dessert is warm, soft chocolate chip cookies.
12. I have a major sweet tooth and love treats...my figure kind of tells that...I have a hard time saying no!
13. I love autumn and all that goes with it...harvest, Halloween, leaves, Thanksgiving, sweaters, hot chocolate, cooler days, pumpkins, warm colors.
14. I once dreamed of being a doctor and traveling with the Peace Corps to Africa.
15. Instead I graduated from the U of U in Recreational Therapy and loved working with children at Primary Children's Hospital before I quit to stay home and raise kids and teach piano lessons.
16. My favorite holiday is actually Halloween...not the gory, scary stuff but the cute, whimsical stuff.
17. I hate fish and seafood...can't stand the taste of smell.
18. I've been married to my sweetie for 11 years...time flies when you're having fun. We were pretty young when we got married and it's fun to reminisce about how things have changed since our newlywed days.
19. I love family vacations...somethings I inherited from my Dad.
20. I'm a big Disney fan and have loved taking our kids to Disneyland now 4 times.
21. I have 6 siblings...2 brothers and 4 sisters. I love them more than anything and treasure the times we spend together.
22. I have wonderful parents...they did an amazing job raising 7 kids. I'm thankful for their dedication and the good things they did to help us become who we are.
23. I love work...I love being busy and have a project going.
24. I love the climbing into a well made bed with clean sheets in clean pj's...it's very refreshing and relaxing at the end of the day.
25. I love lemon...fresh lemonade and lemon bars...but not lemon Jello - Yuck!
26. I am addicted to Scenty wickless candles and burn them everyday in my home!
I can't stand food smells in my home and avoid it if I can...I'm known for plugging my crockpot out on the back porch!
27. I lack confidence in my fashion sense...I want to look good and be a little trendy but have no confidence in knowing what really looks good...so I'm pretty conservative and basic when it comes to clothes.
28. I love a good, warm bowl of soup.
29. I love the mountains and though I don't do it a lot now, I love hiking.
30. I love our little neighborhood and our friends and neighbors.
31. I have terrible eyesight and got glasses in 2nd grade after my Mom took me to the eye doctor and I couldn't even read the big E!
32. I am a member of the LDS church and am so thankful for my testimony of the gospel and the peace and comfort it brings to my life.

Catalyst

Do you remember learning about catalysts in science when you were in school.

Catalyst:

1 a substance which causes or assists a chemical change in another substance without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.
2 someone or something that helps bring about a change.
3 something that causes an important event to happen.

For some reason that word keeps coming to mind when I think about my life the past few months. An interesting catalyst presented itself in my life and caused me to evaluate the "good, better, best" elements taking up my time. I was worried that maybe the good, better and maybe even some bad were taking time away from the best things in my life and it was refreshing to put away some of those things for a while to make more time for the best.

So, now after some time has past I want to keep up this blog. I think it falls into the better category since it is a journal and a form of scrapbooking for me. Although my attention to it may wax and wane depending on how well I'm doing with giving attention to the best things. So...on to more blogging!