7 Random Things About Me!

I was tagged by Baptist Girl to list 7 random things about me. Let's see if I have any dignity left when this is finished! Okay, here goes!

1. I love the mountains. Maybe it stems from being born in Iaeger, West Virginia, in the midst of some beautiful mountains. I love the mountain music and sweet ramblings of a country creek. I ADORE the crisp evenings, even in early summer, and the chirping of the crickets at dusk. (Do crickets chirp?) Remember this John Denver song from the 70's: "Take me home, Country roads, To the place, I belong, West Virginia, Mountain Mama, Take me home, Country roads!"

2. I like to sit in my garden bathtub and let the shower run down over me!

3. I can't sleep at night until all closet doors are completely shut, the laundry room door is shut, and my hubby's bath towel is folded, hung and straightened to match mine.

4. I don't sleep like normal people! I know poor Jen has been wondering about my strange hours on the computer! *grins* I may go to bed at 11 p.m. but I'm up at 2 or 3 a.m. for a few hours. After awhile, oh maybe an hour or two, I'll return to bed and sleep a few more hours before starting my day. I do have better sleep patterns when I am not experiencing much pain or a flare up with Rheumatoid Arthritis, but you know the body gets set in a pattern and it's hard to break! When I go through a bad flare up with RA, it ruins all patterns of sleep. I was diagnosed with RA 17 years ago at the age of 29. Did I clear that sleep thing up for ya' Jen?

5. I LOVE AND ADORE children! I graduated early from high school in Traveler's Rest, South Carolina. I didn't go straight to college but we moved to Florida and I went to work with children right away in Immokalee, Florida. Another one of my first real jobs was working in Miss Martha's day care in Arcadia, Fl. I have always had children in my life. I started babysitting at 11 and earned enough money that summer to buy my own bike and school clothes! I've worked as cashier and then customer service manager in a department store chain, I've completed some courses toward a teaching degree, I've taken secretarial courses and have worked as church secretary in a couple of churches, I ran an "in home" day care for 5 years before becoming disabled, but mostly I have worked with children in Christian school settings.

6. I still don't have my teaching degree! But I have been considering returning to school to finish that up. I'm so very close to completing the requirements, so why don't I? Pray with me about that, would you please? I am still homeschooling Shane, and then there is my health and fatigue to consider. I haven't even told my hubby this yet! I better get on that right away! LOL

7. I feel things very deeply, which can be both good and bad! I hurt for others and want to fix the world. Prayer is my best weapon, I know, but there are times I am so desperate to right a wrong, that it hurts me physically. I get sick to my stomach when I hear or see a child being mistreated in the store or at church. YES, even at churches, I have witnessed little ones and teens alike being spoken to as if they are nothing more than a dumb animal or a burden.

Now I'm supposed to invite anyone who would like to do this to just let me know!

Well there you have it! God bless!