100 Things About Me - Part 4

.64 I'm not very good at finishing what I start...

100 Things About Me - Part 3

42. I have 1 son.
43. I have 2 daughters.
44. I am going on 15 years of marriage to the same wonderful man.
45. I am having trouble coming up with 100 things about me!
46. Red is my favorite color.
47. I love ethnic food.
48. I love lilies in my flower garden.
49. Baking Christmas cookies is something I look forward to all year.
50. I read cookbooks for fun.
51. I always buy dark brown sugar.
52. I have a red motorcycle.
52. Ok, it's really my husband's bike, but I picked it out!
53. I lived in Iowa for over a year and a half before I switched over my driver's license.
54. I have pondered ways to sell my children to gypsies.
55. I eat cereal for dinner.
56. I eat cake for breakfast.
57. I only use freshly ground beans for my morning coffee.
58. I have never been to Alaska.
59. I don't like to paint.
60. My husband makes better macaroni and cheese than I do.
61. My birthday is in December.
62. My anniversary is in August.
63. I am pondering how to sell my children to gypsies right now.

100 Things About Me - Part 2

27. I love homemade soup.
28. I enjoy a good basketball game (watching, not participating).
29. Visiting Disney World is one of my most favorite things EVER!
30. I have a hard time going to the mall without stopping at Auntie Anne's Pretzels...YUM!
31. I make my own Christmas Wreaths.
32. I traveled to Australia and took 18 pairs of shoes.
33. I was born in Madison, Indiana.
34. I am left-handed.
35. I have seen every Little House on the Prairie episode.
36. The things in the back of my refrigerator scare me.
37. I took guitar lessons in college.
38. Old movies make me sentimental.
39. Jimmy Stewart movies are among my favorites.
40. I just remembered my 8th grade history teacher's name (see 100 Things, #6)!
41. I like my orange juice with lots of pulp.

100 Things About Me - Part 1

1. I think there should be a petition to make Chocolate an official food group.
2. I have a high tolerance for pain and a low tolerance for dentists.
3. My favorite movie is "You've Got Mail."
4. At Caribou Coffee I usually order a hazelnut, soy, cappuccino, dry.
5. At Starbucks I enjoy a triple tall half-caf non-fat peppermint mocha extra dry.
6. I don't remember my 8th grade history teacher's name, but she was one of my favorites!
7. I like A1 steak sauce way better than that Heinz 57 stuff.
8. I wear socks to bed.
9. I occasionally listen to Christmas music in the summer.
10. Southern Gospel music hurts my ears.
11. I only eat Indian candy corn...you know, the brown, orange and white kind.
12. I cheat at miniature golf.
13. My fourth grade teacher changed my penmanship grade from a D+ to a C- so I'd stop crying.
14. I love the brown bread at the Cheesecake Factory.
15. My kids call me the Grammar Police.
16. I don't color my hair (yet).
17. I don't like folding laundry.
18. I don't like doing laundry at all.
19. I dance in my kitchen when no one is around.
20. I believe hot chocolate without marshmallows is a waste.
21. I prefer Pepsi over Coke.
22. I think lilies are beautiful.
23. My husband won't drink coffee when I make it.
24. I love the smell of burning leaves in the fall.
25. Sappy commercials make me cry.
26. I know how to polka (sort of).

What's in a Name?

My name is Katie.
And I am a rich lady.

As a child, my sisters and I spent many hours playing dress up with my grandmother's old hats, scarves and gloves. We were playing "Rich Ladies." Oh, the fancy lives we led while adorned with such exquisite accessories. Our lips were pursed, our pinkies curled, and even our speech became quite graceful. In our imaginations, we just knew we were destined for the finer things in life.

Here I am nearly 30 years later, rich indeed. I don't wear silk scarves and white gloves. And I only don a hat to warm my ears or cover a bad hair day. But I posses more than my childish dreams would ever have allowed.

I am rich with love that comes from a paycheck of hugs and kisses, date nights, "I love you Mommy," bedtime prayers, a back massage, birthday parties, sleepovers, family meals, and a plethora of ordinary nothings that become somethings when shared with a precious gift called family.

I am rich with blessings from a Heavenly Father who extends His unlimited grace and mercy to me and loves me enough to call me His own.

I am a Rich Lady.