Feb

1. A 42″ plasma screen with built-in HDTV for the living room (along with a 36″ model for the bedroom, and a slightly smaller model for the kids’ playroom)
2. Another TiVo (we have two already)
3. A MacBook Pro – fully loaded (of course)
4. A convertible – sky blue with white leather interior, preferably a Jag, but I’m flexible on the make %-)
5. A gardener
6. A HUGE scrapbook studio
7. One of those totally-cool wooden playsets that take up the whole backyard for the kids to play with
8. A jacuzzi
9. A weekly massage
10. Celestion 302 speakers for the living room

  

Feb

Even though I’ve loved to read as long as I can remember (I taught myself to read when I was 3), I wasn’t read to much as a child, so a lot of the traditional childhood stories I either only know through their Disney versions, or I didn’t even discover until I had children of my own and started reading to them. Even once I started reading on my own and had access to a library, I wasn’t a huge fan of fairytales. SO, I’m going to just list out my favorite childhood/early teenage books instead (I couldn’t stop at 10, either :

1. The Madeline L’Engle “Time Set” – A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters
2. The original Carolyn Keene Nancy Drew mysteries
3. The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
5. Somewhat later, Forever, also by Judy Blume
6. Go Ask Alice
7. All of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books
8. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden
9. The Pigman, by Paul Zindel
10. The Emily Novels, by L.M. Montgomery – interestingly, I did not care for the Ann of Green Gables series
11. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
12. The Outsiders, and basically every other book by S.E. Hinton
13. The Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oak
14. Deenie – more Judy Blume
15. Tiger Eyes – yes, still more Judy Blume
16. The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom

  

Feb

Taneka’s challenge this week: go through the house and take pictures of things that make me happy.

Okay, well, my house is kind of messy right now!

I think I will just list things rather than show pictures.

One of my favorite things about our house is our deck. It was really the deck and the huge backyard that sealed the deal for us in terms of buying the house.

Another thing I love about our house is that the master bedroom is downstairs, and the kids’ bedrooms are upstairs. I was not sure about this when we first moved in, but now I LOVE this! It’s nice to have privacy and peace and quiet once they’re down. Though Samara likes to hover on the stairs to see what we’re up to!

I also love my scrapbook room. Though I would love it a whole lot more if it was nice, neat and organized.

I also love that our dining room adjoins the living room in such a way that we can set up a whole extra table at the end of our dining room table when we’re having dinner parties.

Finally, I love that our kids have playrooms both downstairs in the basement, and upstairs near their rooms. Again, would love these things more if they were clean and organized.

  

Feb

1. Rupp Arena
2. Jaconson Park
3. High on Rose (may it rest in peace)
4. The house I grew up in
5. Tates Creek Pool
6. Rally’s
7. The Opera House
8. The restaurant Scott & I used to go to all the time…
9. The record store by Kennedy Bookstore
10. Ms. Lowe’s classroom at Henry Clay High School