1. George Washington-Abraham Lincoln-Thomas Jefferson...who would you most like to meet and why?

Probably would have to say Abraham Licoln. I would live to ask him why he denied states rights and how he would fix the issues we have today that have been caused by that.

2. What's your favorite chain restaurant?

Burger King. Loved the flame broiled

3. I spied this question on the Bears at Home last week and she gave me permission to steal borrow it.

When you look back on your life do you imagine you'll think about the goals you failed to meet with regret? Or will you look at what you accomplished and say it was good?

I try to be positive so I would look at what I did accomplish. And what I could hold as a regret I would try to use as a lesson for others of what not to do

4. Grapefruit-take 'em or leave 'em? Given the choice between an orange and a grapefruit which would you choose? Would you prefer it served as is or squeezed into juice?

I am an orange person. I love to just peel it and eat. So yummy

5. When was the last time you cleaned out a closet? Is there a closet in your home that currently needs cleaning? What are you waiting for?

Closets are cleaned regularly here. The front cost closet needs cleaned at least 3 times a week. What with coats and jackets for 10 in it. Along with the diaper bags, Bibles erc

6. You get to have lunch with three famous people...who would you like to see round your table?

Wow this will be 3 random people but I would pick Charlotte Mason, J R R Tolkein, and Princess Di

7. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your ability to parallel park?

To bad I can not give myself a zero for this one. I can not parallel park at all. My dear husband on the other had drives semis and he can parallel park those huge beasts

8. Insert your own random thought here.
As a mother I need to remember that my countenance shows God to my children

Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Will you be hosting any house guests between now and the end of December? Does that thought make you happy or crazy? Do you do anything special to make your house guests feel welcome? How long should a guest stay?

Not that I am aware of,  but goodness any one is welcome at any moment

2. Walter Elias Disney was born this week back in (Dec 5) 1905...what's your all time favorite Disney movie? Here's a list in case you're struggling...and yes, you have to pick one.

Winnie the Pooh,  man why do we have to pick one.  The obscure ones are the best.  We love Candleshoe, The Happiest Millionaire, Our  Dinosaur is Missing, and Follow Me Boys

3. What's the last thing you purchased that you realized was a mistake after the fact?

It takes me FOREVER to buy something so really I don't have buyers remorse.  Normally I know what I want and will take ages making sure I get it just right.

4. What percentage of your Christmas shopping is done online?

Hmmm...probably 80%

5. Amaryllis...snowdrop...poinsettia...your favorite winter blossom?

I don't even know what a snowdrop is.  I love the poinsettia,  to me they just scream Christmas time is here.

6. What is one thing on your personal wish list this year? I think we all want peace on earth so let's make this an actual item.

New Bible, case and journal.  I actually had the cover of my Bible come off of my current Bible this last Sunday

7. If you could only use one word today what would it be?

Joy..... it is where our strength lies.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Take Christ out of Christmas, and December becomes the bleakest and most colorless month of the year.
--A. F. Wells

Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Do you send Christmas cards? If so, about how many will you send this year? How do you display the cards you receive? Or don't you? (gasp!)

We haven't done cards in ages,  but are doing a photo card this year!!  So excited to be able to do them again.  We tape ours around a door frame,  nothing fancy but the kids are able to help do this for me.

2. When do kids become adults?

Kids Become adults!!!!????  Oh I don;t know,  just know that to me my kids will always be my kids.

3. Does your 'beauty regimen' change with the seasons?

It sure does,  I fight dry skin and so I switch to a heavier cream for the face.  And have chapstick or blistex stashed everywhere,  And the hand cream comes out in full force.

4. What's something you like to eat that might cause another person to turn up their nose?

Fried Apples and Onions!!

So yummy good but an odd dish.  It is out of the Little House Cookbook,  it taste amazing with any pork dish.  You have to try it

5. Gloves or Mittens?

Mittens keep your hands so much warmer for when you are out walking and playing but I really like the gloves I have for driving.  And up here if you don't prewarm your car that steering wheel can be COLD!

6. What's the longest queue you've ever been in? Was it worth it? Queue=line but doesn't queue sound so much nicer?

Probably a line for a roller coaster at Cedar Point.

7. Besides Christmas, what is one thing you are looking forward to this December?

Peak delivery season at FedEx being over!!!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~Burton Hillis

Wednesday Hodgepodge

Questions for the Wednesday Hodgepodge-Vol 53

1. What song reminds you of a specific time in your life and what is it about that song that makes you remember?   After All,  wow,  with our Anniversary today I have to say this song.  It says it all

2. What's something you've given up on?  My marriage!!

3. What's something you'll never give up on?  Hmmm ever out growing my procrastination tendancies

4. If you had to cook something from scratch in the next hour what would it be?  Pie

5. Have you started Christmas shopping? Decorating? Listening to Christmas music?  Christmas Shopping is all year long for me.  The rest NO WAY!!!  I adore Thanksgiving to much to let Christmas intrude.

6. What do you know about your parent's wedding?  I was in it!!!

7. I can't believe I ___________________.  Ever let my blog go!!!!

8. Insert your own random thought here.  I love this Thanksgiving season and this is my favorite quote about it

So once in every year we throng

Upon a day apart,

To praise the Lord with feast and song

In thankfulness of heart.”

Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

Wednesdays hodgepodge

1. Are you more like your mom or your dad?

Wow,  what a question to start with.  I would have to say I am a mixture of the two.  I really couldn't say which one I am more like.  I am stubborn, opinionated, and hardheaded.  But I won't say which I got from which parents.

2. Do you like roller coasters?

I LOVE them but they don't like me.  I am the one with my head in the trash can at the exit to the ride.  Once I am done I go back for more.

3. How did you name your blog and do you now wish you had thought about it maybe another five minutes before hitting publish? Would you change your blog title if it were not a huge pain in the derriere? (French makes everything sound a little nicer doesn't it?)

I chose the name because I am on a journey to be what the Lord wants me to be and I love being the homemaker here.  Currently we have the ages of kids from Teens to Toddlers which would make a cool name.  (For a while till I no longer have Toddlers)  I will have teens for the next 19 years.  I am going to hide for a while now!!!

4. What is the best wedding gift you received? Not married? Didn't get any gifts? Then what is the best wedding gift you've ever given?

I have been married 14 years this month and the best gift we had was gone the first week.  We got jars of homemade bread and butter pickles from one of the dear sweet ladies at our church.  But no recipe.  What I wouldn't give for that recipe.

5. What bill do you least like to pay?

Property Taxes.  Hate renting my land from the government.  And I homeschool so to tell me I get that back with education for my kids makes me want to scream.  What I couldn't get them for their education with that money!!

6. Is the glass half full or half empty?

There's a GLASS???!!!  Ok I am not that bad but for years that was the way I looked at it but then I started studying God's grace towards us.  The glass is full, pressed down, shaken together and running over!!

7. What is your favorite word? 

Endure  (must be said as Anne said to Dinah on Anne of Green Gables)

8. Insert your own random thought here-

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