I was going to just leave a comment to my last post with all my answers, but it got so long I thought I should just go ahead & make a new post.
Wow! Great response so far, guys! Thank you! I am enjoying all your answers.
Matt totally took me by surprise, though!! I really thought my post with Derek's bare bottom would scare away all of the preacher friends I've made recently. I'm wondering, Matt, if you know any single guys in FL that I can hook my sister up with. She's going to be really mad that I asked that! You're just the only young guy in FL I know (if we could say I know you), & you're already taken.
Maria, I love imagining your accent as you said "porridge" for breakfast. Too cute! I wish I could hear you!
Amy, can you say "Obsessive/Compulsive"?? HA!! I'm just kidding.
Malia, I love your answer to what you wanted to be when you were a child.
Bevin, I think we should take our vacation together next year. I love the beach too!
Dee, I remember in Searcy there was this horrible trend with the natives there to not use their turn signals. What is up with that?! They're only a little better about that here in VA.
Okay, here are my answers...
1. I guess there is no answer to this one. Thanks a lot for all your help, guys. Really, I mean it, so helpful.
2. I read mostly NIV, but we also have a New American Standard now because Dan was once asked at another church to not read from the NIV. So now I like to compare some of my favorite verses in his translation.
3. Yes, I do think schools should ask for ID, but twice I went to Nathan's school & was not asked for it--once, when I was staying for lunch, I wasn't even asked to sign in. Another time, when we went to pick Nathan up for a dentist's appt, I signed him out & then went to wait for him in the hallway--it wasn't until later that I realized if I were an evil person, it would have been WAY too easy to sign out a kid that wasn't mine & take him home with me! I was just wondering if I was being too paranoid or if others agreed with me.
4. I am definitely NOT a minimalist. I like clothes. I don't really like shorts, even in the summer.
5. There are so many ways I need to work on my relationship with God that I don't know where to begin. But I have determined to be more patient, because that characteristic spans several areas in my life that need improving. (patience with kids, patience with Dan, patience with God, patience with other drivers, patience, patience, patience!!) And I love Matt's latest post on Waiting on the Lord. I actually have a similar post I've been working on, but I think I'm going to scrap it as Matt says it so much better. So go on over & check it out.
6. My biggest driving pet peeve is other drivers, period. But I'm working on that. :)
7. Let's see, breakfast . . . I think I had some.
8. My ideal vacation would be a resort on a tropical beach where I could take lots of books, maybe some craft stuff, where I had absolutely nothing else to do, nothing to cook, nowhere to go, & it would be absolutely free. Since that's not likely to happen in my lifetime, I'll settle for Mom & Dad's new place in sunny FL. It'd be almost the same if I could go without the kids!! I don't think the grand-folk would let me come without them, though. Oh well!
9. I am a night person. I hate it too, because I have three morning children who like to wake me up early! But for some reason, I cannot bring myself to get into bed at a reasonable hour. Maybe it's just that there's so much to do after the kids go to bed.
10. I have always wanted to be a teacher & a mom. Well, I'm halfway there (unless you count Sunday school, which I would, except I planned to be a teacher that got paid).
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Darling you are a teacher. Everyone that reads your blog learns something in what you post. It may be about a bug, a biblical passage, or just having the person reading look deeper into theirself. I always say, God put me on this Earth to do his work, I try to do a little every day. God Bless you, "the daughter", "the wife", "the mother", "the lady" and "the teacher".
Ha! Am sitting at my desk now saying 'porridge' to myself with my English accent!
Ha ha!
God bless
maria in the UK
www.inhishands.co.uk
I meant to post on the last one but didn't get a chance. And for your information, your brother was a member of the A-team CHAMPIONS last night. Took Knights. Even had to beat them twice. And we are the only champions this year for tnt. maybe even last year too. Don't worry, we are working on bringing back the domination tradition.
I can't remember if I blogged about this or not, too lazy to go back and look!, but there was a disturbing incident regarding dismissing Sweetpea early from school one day.
She called home in the early afternoon saying she had hurt her ankle in P.E. and wanted to come. She was quite distraught on the phone so I figured it was best to just go and get her. When I arrived at the school she was standing outside with an adult and I just assumed (b/c we are new to this school and never picked her up early before) that it was a school employee that had escorted her from the building. I drove up, she gets in the car and we drive away. A few minutes later I get a call on my cell phone, "Mrs. Carden? Do you have Sweetpea?" "Well, yes." "Oh good, we didn't know where she went!" WHAT?!?!
I was SUPPOSED to go in and sign her out (and I'm not even sure if they check ID or not). But she had LEFT the building unaccompanied and was waiting outside for me BY HERSELF until another mother (that woman was not a school employee!) saw her out there crying and stayed with her til I arrived! The school didn't KNOW that she had gone outside!
you will have to tell your dear brother... that while the Knights exist on Harding campus... the tnt domination tradition will have to wait for another day :)
Aunt Dawn, you are the sweetest!
Maria, wish I could meet you. Maybe someday... :)
Malia, horrible story!! I think I will try to work on my school's policies--we wouldn't want to wait until something very serious happened before we did something about it.
Trey, do you hear that trash-talk from the Bulls?? I can't believe sweet Laura wrote that, so Gary must have either written it himself or brainwashed Laura.
Hey now, this Knights queen knows how to trash talk... no covert husband brain washing, just true pride!!!
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