Borders Family: April 2008

I was tagged by Kate Borders

What I was doing 10 years ago:
I was 19 years old...had just come back home from Ga Southern (got homesick)....I was working at a place called Health Place in the day care...trying to get my foot in the door at Kennestone Hospital...where I work now! I think I got my first apartment this year!!!

Five things on my to do list today:
Well...It is night time..so I will say 5 things I need to do tomorrow....

1. Take Mads to school
2. Continue to try to organize our stuff upstairs
3. Change diapers, feed children, rock children, play with children..not in that order!!
4. Sleep...Ha Ha Ha......dream on Beth...dream on!!
5. Write in Baby books.....It is harder with the second baby :)

Snacks that I enjoy:

1. Strawberries, blackberries and green grapes mixed together
2. Popcorn
3. CHOCOLATE!!!!
4. plain M&Ms with peanuts in a little bowl.
5. Ice cream
6. Why can I not lose the last 10 lbs???????????

What would do if I were a billionaire:

1. Pay someone who knows what they are doing to invest well so that my family and I wouldn't have to worry about the basic necessities. (Me too....Kate!)
2. FINISH THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!! PAY SOMEONE TO DO IT!!!!!
3. Adopt some babies!!!
4 Pay my parents houses off and buy my siblings some good stuff
5. Give a bunch to Autism research
6. Make sure my babies are comfortable....maybe send them to private schools

Three of my bad habits:

1. snacking
2. I am trying to read the bible front to back...got to Numbers...needed some New Testament..read Galatians and Luke...went back to Numbers...my bad habit...now I am reading "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks...reading novels that mean nothing...that is my bad habit.
3. Losing my patience with my children and taking out my stressors on them :(

Places I have lived:

1. Athens, GA until I was 9 months old. (My father was a professor at UGA)

2. Woodstock, GA until I was 19 or 20 years old

3. Marietta, GA "The Falls of Bells Ferry" My first apartment

4. Marietta, GA My dads rental house...for free!!!!

5. My brother and I bought a house in ACWORTH, GA

6. Met Stephen....Our first apartment in Woodstck, GA "The Paces"

7. 149 Summer Creek Drive Dallas, GA Our first home!!!

8. The Generations home....981 Allgood Marietta......We now officially own 1001 Allgood Road!!!! Yeahhhhhhh

Jobs I have had:

1. Babysitting
2. Sears...Sales associate
3. China Bay.....water girl when I was 14
4. Sub and Pizza Company....Joked around as a high schooler
5. Just for Feet....can only remember dancing...never actually working
Oh yeah......Philly Connection when I was 15
6. Addison Elementery...Parapro for special needs preschoolers
7. Cherokee and Cobb co schools.....substitute teacher
8. Metro Atlanta EMS...Paramedic
9. Cartersville Medical Center....RN
10. Kennestone Hospital...RN

Five people I want to know more about: (No pressure....don't do it if you don't want to :)

1. Any one who reads this!!! Come on...you know you wanna!!!!!

Since moving in the "generations" house, I have not seen my family as often as I used to. I miss having my family over to my home for dinners and such and miss entertaining in my own home. My mother is also travel nursing in Illinois currently, so yet another reason I have not seen her. Last week, I was really "home sick". I was sitting in church and my ADD was in full swing. I was watching the family in front of us, and it reminded me of my mother and siblings back in the day. The mother gave the two kids gum from her purse. I closed my eyes and could literally smell the bubblegum flavored care free gum my mother would give us out of her purse while sitting in a pew. I closed my eyes and could see her hands. Strong, tired, comforting, arthritic hands, with a small gold pinkie ring. My dad's....Strong, well manicured...dry in the winter. Funny how you can close your eyes, remember a smell and visualize someone's hands. Very Comforting!!