10 Day YOU Challenge: 4 Books



ONLY 4 BOOKS??? hmmmmm. I have so many I like, though!!! lol

Alrighty, here goes.....

My absolute all-time favorite books:

1. The Bible....in the Amplified Version. Did you know the Amplified was written by women? So it has a LOT more words than the ones the MEN wrote!! lol I found that very interesting

2. The Left Behind Series......they all go together!! You have to read them all, and in order. :) Otherwise they would make NO sense at all. :)

3. Anything written by Francine Rivers, but particularly her Mark of the Lion series. They are VERY inspirational!!!

4. And my one NON-Christian Series I liked: Anne McCaffrey's Brainship-Brawn books: The Ship Who Sang, PartnerShip, The Ship Who Searched, The City Who Fought, The Ship Who Won, The Ship Errant, and The Ship Avenged. hehehe The others were better, but this one was fun if you like Sci-Fi that was written by a woman. :) Not many of THOSE around!! lol

10 Day YOU Challenge: 5 foods



Oh, I love this one, but picking out my favorite five foods is gonna be HARD!! I LOVE food. I eat almost everything. You will never find a less picky eater than me lol.

ok

1. Sushi. I LOVE sushi. I love going down to Canyon and eating at The King and I...they have Buffalo rolls!!

2. Anything involving seafood. Shrimp scampi and lobster!! That's what I had for my honeymoon dinner. First time I ever went to Red Lobster.

3. Anything Italian....but most especially stuffed tortellini...mmmm......

4. Medium rare steak (filet mignon ( if I can get it!) wrapped in bacon (bacon is a whole food group in itself!! lol) and garlic rosemary dill roasted potatoes, with grilled asparagus and peaches. lol That's my favorite birthday dinner. Along with a French Silk pie if I can get it. :) mmmmmmmmmm; I'm making myself hungry!!! lol

5. Chocolate!!! The absolute best thing EVER!!! Chocolate is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. lol lol!!

10 Day YOU Challenge: 6 Places



ok, I have been to WAY more than 6 places in my lifetime, so I will tell you instead where I would LOVE to go. :D

1. I would LOVE to go to San Antonio with my husband for our anniversary, and spend a whole week there. I have no clue if this will happen in the way that I want. You see, he took his EX wife to San Antonio on their honeymoon. When he asked me where I would like to go for our honeymoon when WE got married, he almost choked when I told him that I wanted to go to San Antonio. Needless to say, he talked me out of it. But San Antonio is just about the only major city in the great state of Texas that I HAVEN'T been to yet.

2. I would like to go to Hawaii one of these days.....just to say I've been there!!!AND I want to go scuba diving there. And get some really great photos underwater. :)

3. I want to go to our nation's capitol. I have been around it several times, but never actually gone INTO it. I want to see the White House and go to Georgetown and go shopping!!

4. I want to go to the states in the US I haven't been to yet: Washington, Oregon, Montana (especially Montana; I hear it's really beautiful there), Alaska, Rhode Island, and Maine. I have BEEN everywhere else at some point in my life. :D Except Hawaii. But I put that at number 2 because I want to go to Hawaii BEFORE I go to the other states I haven't been to yet. lol

5. I would love to go to Israel and walk where Jesus walked and see the tomb where they buried Him and see the whole nation of Israel. :) And I want to do it BEFORE Jesus comes back. I KNOW that one day I will see Jerusalem. The Last Battle will be there and all the followers of Jesus will be THERE when it happens. I just want to see it beforehand.

6. HEAVEN. I can't WAIT to get to go to heaven and see the streets made out of gold, and the house prepared just for me, and the rivers of milk and honey. :) And to get to meet all the people that are HEROES in the Bible. And be able to talk to them about everything God did for them. And to be able to see the cherubim saying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" Oh, how I long for that day!!! And when I finally get there, I don't think I'll ever want to go anywhere else. :D So I want to save that one for last. lol

Rock and a hard place. Advice, anyone?

I feel like I'm stuck betweena rock and a hard place. My husband is an over-the-road truck driver. He's gone for 6 days (not even coming home nights), and then he gets home and is home for 2 days. He sees no way out of his job unless I go get a job as well. My issue is this: I do not want to have to go to work and let anyone else raise my baby. She turns 3 at the beginning of December. On the one hand, I want to be able to help my husband come home; I want to be able to help financially. On the other hand, it will rip my heart out to let someone else raise Aubrey. I firmly believe God gave her to ME to raise; He didn't give her to me so I could turn around and give her to someone else!!!

Anybody have any advice? Is there any way to combine my two wants?? I want to make money, AND stay at home with Aubrey. I've considered sales, but we have no money to go buy "inventory" for anything like selling jewelry or Avon or anything like that. HELP!!!

10 Day YOU Challenge: 7 Wants



I should be done with this one in about 3 minutes. lol

7 wants:

1. I want Jesus to come back SOON.

2. I want my husband to come home from his trucking job and be able to stay home. He's an over the road truck driver.

3. I want more children.

4. I want more money. lol

5. I want to go to San Antonio with my husband on our anniversary. :)

6. I want to have a bigger house so each of my children can have a room of their own.

7. I want to have a business where we buy an old decrepit house, fix it up, and resell it. :)

ok, there's more that I want, but those are the big things. lol