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| they are my life! 2.)Anything and everything old fashioned. 3.) the Mitford books. 4.) The Little House books 5.) Janette Oke books 6.) Maybe we should just go ahead and put books in a category of its own before this gets to be a million books long...hehe 7.) Scottsdale Bible Church's Special Ministries. My time there is so refreshing, and challenging, and full of love. I thank God for opening the door to this ministry for me! It's such a blessing. 8.) My Bible. My big, light tan, ESV Bible that I got for Christmas...I love it and couldn't live without it. 9.) Argentina and all of my loved ones which it holds. Te Amo!! 10.) Scrapbooking, stamping, cross stitching, sewing, plastic canvas stitching, and quilting--even though I don't know how to quilt.yet. These are all more things I took up because of my Mom...and fell in love with! 11.) Music. I came up with this one on my own, haha! I joined two different choruses while in public school, played Alto Saxophone in band and violin in strings, and today play violin and piano. I love music. As my old band teacher said, music is a gift that can never be taken away. It truly is a gift... 12.) Journaling! I call my journals my own Psalms because they mimic David's so much... "God, I need your help so much...what will I do? Ahhh!!!" to "Oh, Jesus, you are so amazing!!" to "this world disgusts me!" to "I can't believe You created such beauty." yeah. 13.) Special times with just the girls. As in me, my precious siter, and my mom. 14.) My sweet sissy! What would I do without her?!?! 15.) Sunsets. 16.) Chai tea lattes...especially if I drink them early in the morning, while basking in the cool fall breeze, reading my Bible after a workout with my mom. 17.) Running with my sweet encourager--my mom!! 18.) The children of the world. It may sound silly, but my dream would be to wake up every day surrounded by children... children the rest of the world has thrown away... children who don't know what it's like to be loved... who rarely feel a love-filled hug... children who others turn their eyes away from because it hurts too much to look... "Kisses from Katie" set in me a desire to be called mommy by these precious kids around the world..someday... 19.) Blogging. That's a given! But I love writing out my thoughts like this. 20.) God's plans. 'Nuff said. 21.) The color yellow. And pink. 22.) Listening to Cate do school. 23.) Being homeschooled... 24.) Small towns. 25.) My town. 26.) Volunteering! 27.) Baking...anything! 28.) advocating for my heart children! 29.) School 30.)Dresses... 31.) Watching old musicals with my family 32.) Staying in a hotel with that family of mine! Always an adventure and so much fun. 33.)Worship 34.) playing the four favorite things game 35.) Memories 36.) Riding horses 37.) playing with my dog 38.) taking quizzes 39.) making/eating homemade bread. That's the only time I'll ever eat a PB&J. 40.) Fried chicken. It's my weakness... 41.) Mississippi State. My second home... 42.) Any place we have vacationed and have good memories at makes me smile. 43.) Sign language. 44.) Teaching sign language. 45.) Spreading Deaf awareness and information on sign language. 46.) Interpreting!! Best job EVER. 47.) Being in Moezart with my brothers and sissy. 48.) Our weekly dates after Moezart/before High School Ministry. 49.) Reading blogs 50.) Staying up late..and getting up early! 51.) MATE!! 52.) Chinese food 53.) Facebook (most of the time!) 54.) checking the mail! It brings me joy. And if you write me a handwritten letter, it makes my day. Come on guys...if Paul could do it while in prison, you can spare the time to jot a quick note to show you care! 55.) Prison ministry. and orphan ministry. and disability ministry. there are so many great ministries out there... 56.) Macaroni and Cheese. (even though I don't like cheese!) 57.) Reading a book at the same time as someone else in my family so we can discuss it. Because I can't read a good book without discussing it. I just can't. 58.)Good book clubs that challenge you to broaden your horizons and pick up books you would normally not look at. 59.) Purses! I used to hate them and never carry one, but when we went to Hawaii two years ago my mom bought me a big calico bag for me to carry my books and coverup and such around in. I have used one ever since and never looked back! 60.) Taking pictures. Especially of my parents! haha 61.) Going on vacations with my family! 62.) Dreams.... 63.) Typewriters...it may seem strange but I have a love for them!! 64.) Aprons... 65.) Quilts... 66.) Rocking chairs.. 67.) The name Jubal. It means "father of the flutes", as Jubal in the Old Testament was father to all who played the flutes. I want to name one of my children that. haha! 68.) Christmas decorations!! 69.) FALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 70.) Easter. Jesus gave us such a huge gift... 71.) Celebrating Christ's birth! 72.) Talking. Big surprise, right? 73.) But I also love listening. People often come to my mom with their big things they need to talk about, and I often pray that someday people will feel comfortable talking to me like that. I love hearing about peoples' lives and learning how I can pray for them. 74.) Writing out long lists like this... 75.) Having goofy Halloween parties! 76.) I love old people, I really do, and have so many wonderful memories at nursing homes from when I was in that sign language group. 77.) Writing current events 78.) The adorable decorations that adorn small towns at Christmas time. 79.) Christmas movies...we have a tradition that we watch all our favorites that we can before Christmas eve. It is one of my favorite traditions! 80.) Another tradition I love is baking sugar cookies at Christmas time...and decorating them!! 81.) Anything from the 1800s...or the 1940s-50s. 82.) I love doing spontaneous things! (like our last flagstaff visit) 83.) I love listening to music from the 50's on our Sirius radio... 84.) I love going in Walgreens near any holiday! 85.) I also love going in Ace HardWare.. 86.) Eating lunch in an airport 87.) Accompanying my dad on his weekend rounds. I love going to work with him!! 88.) My "A Vintage Christmas" book...and planning how to make our Christmas more old-fashioned with my mom!! 89.) long car rides! 90.) Taking Pluto on car rides with us 91.) DisneyWorld/Land/Cruise!! 92.) Just BEING!! 93.) The ocean...although sand in my swimsuit annoys me, I love love love the ocean. 94.) Looking at scrapbooks of my parents' 95.) Spanish!! 96.)Braids (although I'm horrible at them!) 97.) Being a sister 98.) Old quilts 99.) Birthdays!! 100.) The fact that I got to 100! I'm grateful for having so many gifts in my life!! I am sure I have many more to share...but for now I'm stopping at 100! I challenge you all to think of at least five things you're grateful for/or one of your favorite things. Buenos Noches! Your tired blogger, Claire |
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| My Mom, Benjamin, Mason, and their host family |
Another time Mom, Cate, and I were walking in "Claire's" to pick up a sleep mask for Cate. While we were waiting for the cashier to ring us up, my mom let out a gasp. She pointed to a bin on the checkout counter. It was filled to the brim of bracelets with little icons of Mary, Jesus, and the Apostles on it. I picked one up and knew my mom and I were both remembering our day at the prison. She had comforted one of the prisoners, who, as a token of her love and thanks, gave my Mom her own little bracelet with icons on it. It touched my mom's heart that this woman gave to her out of her heart. And just the sight of those was enough to almost bring us both to tears.
