Honesty Award

i got a blog award! can you believe it? especially considering how bad i've been at blogging lately...yeah - i know. i'll try to do better in 2010.

anyway, my sweet friend jill gave me this award - thanks, jill! to go to her blog, click HERE!

Rules for the award:
1. Must thank the person who gave you the award and list their blog and link it.
2. Share "10 Honest things" about yourself.
3. Present this award to others whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
4. Tell those people they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving the award.

so here goes...........

1. i'm always busy. and i can't imagine my life any other way. seriously - i think i thrive on having a jam packed schedule. we've talked to some very close friends about this and it's pretty much determined that my personality is one that needs to feel needed. maybe this is why i hardly ever say "no"?

2. even though i am busy most all of the time, i love my wind down time. my Bible reading, candle burning, book reading, coffee sipping time. i need it and i crave it. by myself. as much as i love and adore my child and my husband, i need my wind down time to be everything on my terms.

3. which leads me to another thing - i like having things my way. surprised? if you are, then you don't know me. don't get me wrong - if i'm with a group, i can very easily go with the flow. but if it's just our family, i like to plan things out and have it all ready. and since i'm the planner, then it's usually on my terms. follow me?

4. i haven't always loved my beloved Delta. {GASP} did i even just put that???? but we are being honest here, so there it is. growing up in the country, i "thought" i missed out on so much. riding my bike over to friend's houses. running to the grocery store to grab something. etc. etc. i wanted to live in town. when i moved to jackson, i couldn't wait to get back home. (why i stayed is a whole other post in itself). i mean - in the grand scheme of things, i missed out on NOTHING. the old cliche' about the grass being greener? yeah - i thought it was and it isn't. i can't wait to move home one day {sigh...}......

5. i love the golden girls. and mary peyton even likes them (sometimes). i mean really, don't you think all of life's problems could easily be solved among friends around a table having cheesecake? sounds good to me!

6. i got my first car when i was in the 4th grade. yes, you read that right. and i've posted this before, but it's been a long time. i learned how to drive when i was 6. one of the perks of growing up in the country. i was driving by myself when i was 9 (3rd grade). i would go 3 miles down the road to see crump when he was born. well, when i was in the 4th grade, mama got a new car and i got the old one - a 1982 (or so) brown diesel bonneville. yep - with a tank like that, my parents figured i was safe!

7. i married my best friend. and even best friends have some hard times. but at the end of the day, they are there for each other no matter what.

8. i see so much of me in mary peyton that it honestly scares me sometimes. traits in me that i don't want her to have. my temper shows up sometimes. but then other things that i do love so much. her compassion (towards people and animals both). it's not uncommon to hear her come through the kitchen and say, "mama, come see this". i'll go in and it's one of the animal commercials that shows animals being abused or neglected. she'll have a tear in her eye and just say, "oh bless their hearts, mama!". and you can rest assured (as some of you know) that when an athlete is hurt, she is going to be praying. we have our precious other family, the richardsons, because of some of these prayers!

9. my parents divorce has had more of an impact on my life than i ever dreamed it would. it was the hardest thing i've ever been through. and to be honest (honesty, remember?), i don't know that i will ever truly be over it. i'm just learning to live with it.

10. i'm glad that tommy and i have chosen to only have one child. i feel that God gave us a peace about this early on in our relationship, so when it came time for tommy to have his vasectomy this summer, it wasn't such a big deal. well, had he not had that procedure, we would have never known that he had a hydrocele (which can lead to testicular cancer) or that he had a hernia (which, per the surgeon, was about the size of a cantaloupe!). but because we are content with the one little blessing that God has trusted us with, we were also able to find these things out.

i'm sure as soon as i hit "publish post", i'll think, "why didn't you put this? why didn't you put that?", but these are the things that have come to mind!

but here are the friends i am tagging!

1. ALLISON click HERE for her blog...

2. CLAIRE click HERE for her blog...

3. BETHNIE click HERE for her blog...

4. PRESLEY click HERE for her blog...

5. DORON click HERE for her blog...