The 100 things list

Well tradition is that if you blog you do a 100 item list about yourself-- so here goes......

1. I am a mom to a very great 4 year old boy

2. I am a registered nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit

3. I am a wife and sometimes not a very good one but I need to work on that

4. I love to dance but don't as much anymore because of my insecurities

5. I love music and singing but can't sing well and don't know the words to most songs but will sing along anyway

6. I miss my great grandma walker, who died last year. I miss her talks and all her advice. She was so smart, patient, and just well rounded.

7. I am grateful. I am grateful for my house (no matter how little or small), I am grateful for my son, and thankful for all the blessings I have in my life.

8. I love my family and they are the most important thing in my life.

9. I always said I would get married and have lots and lots of kids. Well I am married and I have one and can only have one more. That is why I feel so strong about spending lots of time with your kids and loving them. Because not everyone can have lots of them and time goes so fast.

10. I love my friends even though we don't spend alot of time together .

11. I love to see different things and different places in my life.

12. I have an unhealthy need to please people.

13. I could never be a SAHM but working 2-3 days a week is great for me. God bless all those that can be SAHM's.

14. I love music of all genres especially (80's music is the best)except rap music with bad words.

15. I would love to have a bigger house so I could entertain people in my house more often.

16. I have a passion for organizing. If I had the money my whole house would be in bins, baskets, boxes, and containers. Oh, and labeled of course.

17. I am addicted to Grey's anatomy , One tree hill, and brothers and sisters.

18. I hate to cook but love to give my family good meals so I do it. It is more of a patience aspect.

19. I love to try new recipes.

20. I love to travel.

21. I love my husband and my baby more than life.

22. I love bakery goods. ( in this family that is known)

23. I would love to have a boat so we could go boating all summer.

24. I used to have to have make up on and hair done before even stepping out of the house. I also thought I had to have a new outfit every week. I got over it. I learned there are so many more important things in life.

25. I never have money in my wallet. Debit card !!

26. I want to start doing yoga and finding more inner peace.

27. I absolutely love the beach. I wish we lived near one so I could sit there at nite with my family and watch the sunset and be surrounded my peace.

28. I love food.

29. I have clothes in my closet that don't fit and have tags on them. I am saving them for that day I fit back into them...Ha Ha

30. My favorite color is red.

31. I wish I could/would go to church and be able to incorporate that into my life because I think of it often.

32. I hate confrontations.

33. I can't stand it when people complain about everything. But I think I complain alot myself. So something I need to work on.

34. My first job was in medical records at a hospital. I have always worked in a hospital since I was 16.

35. I was a candy striper when I was younger.

36. I have never had a lot of friends. But the ones I do have I consider to be the best a person could ever have.

37. My favorite season is Fall.

38. I love to wear sandals the summer.

39. I love to read and can usually finish a good book in a matter of days/hours.

40. I love school and have always found it to come easy to me.

41. My son was born at 28 weeks gestation.

42. I have severe preeclampsia with pregnancy and therefore can only have one more.

43. I am terrified of heights. Trying to show my son not to be afraid of heights and that is making me taking new steps upward.

44. I LOVE Mexican food.

45. We are trying to have another baby currently.

46. I broke my tib/fib (lower leg bones) in 1998 and had to have a cast for 6 months and took me 8 months to learn to walk again the right way.

47. I love cards. It could be homemade or just a letter on stationary.

48. I love paper. All kinds of paper, note pads, stickies.

49. I am a perfectionist to a fault.

50. I am a control freak.

51. I am uncomfortable around people I don't know well.

52. My favorite meal at home is lasagna and salad with cheese bread.

53. I can deal with dust, sweeping etc. but I can't stand it when people don't clean up after themselves. Shut a cupboard if you open it, turn off lights if you turn them on. I think I must get that from my granny walker.

54. I am sarcastic and hateful sometimes. I don't mean to be...it's just me.

55. I hate cleaning bathrooms. Something about it makes me want to gag.

56. My husband is my very opposite and my best friend. He is outgoing, love people, intelligent, down to earth, not judgemental.

57. I love to shop.

58. I love to go to the movies.

59. I am very critical and need to work on that. I have very black and white thinking. I need God to help me with this. I tend to get this way when I am upset about something going on with me and I take it out on others.

60. Children and elderly people pull at my heart strings. LOVE 'EM!

61. I am a HUGE worrier.

62. I do not need much sleep at all.

63. I want to try working at Children's Hospital someday. To see the difference.

64. I love Chicago Bears football and the Huskers.

65. I love to read magazines.

66. I have brown hair and brown eyes (sometimes people say they are orange at times)

67. I love kids (especially preschool age kids) they are so fun.

68. I want to be more church oriented but to be honest I am sometimes afraid of the way my child may act at church so I avoid going.

69. I like to do laundry but doing dishes is less desired.

70. I love to get pedicures. I never get one because I am always thinking of other stuff.

71. I think you should always love your children unconditionally no matter what they do. Because you don't have to like your child's choices but you still have to love them.

72. I think families should spend alot of time together and most of it should be quality time. I really don't believe in leaving my child alot with babysitters (maybe family members is ok). This time we have with our kids is so few and far between it goes so fast.

73. I believe beauty is on the inside, not on the outside. Too bad not everyone else does.

74. I hate going to Wal-Mart but I can't resist the deals. It's a love / hate thing.

75. I don't believe couples should stay in bad marriages "for the children".

76. I think there is nothing better than being together as a family going to movies, playing games, and just being together.

77. My weakness is a child or a man crying.

78. I believe all kids should have parents that say "I love you" and "I am proud of you" to them all the time.

79. I believe in the power of prayer.

80. My favorite author is Jane Greene.

81. I want to have my kids to be healthier and then I am. I try to serve him lots of fruits and vege's. I want him to have a healthier life.

82. I am a social phobe. I have a hard time going in places by myself

83. I like to have a very cleaned, neat appearance to my house at all times. But sometimes I have to realize that it is just not possible.

84. I like to take pictures and email them to family so they know what is going on in our lives.

85. My worst fear is something happening to my son.

86. I have been known to over react. :)

87. My best girl friend lives hmmm 10 miles away and we have seen each other once this year.

88. I make lists...lots of lists....lists for everything.

89. I love quotes by people that are inspirational.

90. I tend to curse alot when I get mad and need to work on that.

91. I LOVE to play board games.

92. I am a picky eater. I don't like onions, I don't like tomatoes on food, I hate hot lettuce.

93. I like to go out and have a good time. But it's gotta be worthwhile for me to leave my son with a sitter. Also I like to drink but when I do it takes awhile to recover anymore..(age)

94. I want to start going to more places that have live bands, different things going on than just radio music and karaoke.

95. I love warm vanilla creme lotion and body wash.

96. My goal is to start exercising more so I can feel healthy.

97. We have pajama days at our house . Once or twice a month on a weekend. Nobody gets out of their pajamas and we just hang out all day.

98. If I could change something about myself it would probably be my patience level. Because I really struggle with that and sometimes that can affect so much

99. I have a disgusting habit of picking biting my nails.

100. I am a democrat living in a republican state