TAGGED

I was TAGGED by my sweet friend, Jordana, and I happened to like this list. Hope you do too:

8 Things I'm Passionate About:
1. Serving the Lord through being set-apart in the way that we live
2. Sharing Christ's love and truth to those who do not know
3. My husband and Children
4. Homeschooling
5. Dressing Modestly but trendy
6. Money - being thrifty or frugal or cheap or whatever you care to call it.
7. Exercise and health
8. My friendships

8 Things I say Often : (recently - for me)
1. Como Se dice? (How do you say.....)
2. No hablo espanol. (I don't speak Spanish)
3. No entiendo. (I don't understand!)
4. Disculpe (excuse me?)
5. Otra Vece, porfavor (once again, please)
6. Te Amo (I love you)
7. To my kids.....have I told you today how much I love you?
8. To myself....I'm not going to cry....I'm not going to cry!

8 Things I've Read Recently:
1. The Broker - John Grisham (last week)
2. The Pelican Brief - John Grisham (last week)
3. The Innocent Man - John Grisham (this week - hey, I'm on Christmas break)
4. Get Out of That Pit - Beth Moore
5. Believing God - Beth Moore
6. To Train Up a Child
7. Having a Mary Heart in A Martha world (didn't finish it)
8. From Fear to Freedom (don't remember the Author's name and I gave the book away after I read it)

8 Things I want to do before I die:
1. Run Again....and I mean really run (like a 10K or half-marathon)
2. See each child walking with Christ intimately
3. To see my kids be a better person than I am (probably not hard)
4. To see new testament house churches planted
5. To see multitudes of people come to Christ through our family or individual witnesses
6. Complete a full triathalon (the iron-man distance)
7. Go to Africa
8. Have more babies

8 Songs I can Listen to over and over (and I probably have):
1. That song by Sonic Flood...."Over the mountains and the seas, your river runs with love for me.... This is my favorite song in the ENTIRE world and after almost 10 years I am soooo not sick of it.
2. Breathe of Heaven
3. Your Love is Extravagent (Casting Crowns - not sure if that is the right title)
4. The Robe (Wes King)
5. Create in Me a Clean Heart
6. Footloose
7. Ice Ice Baby (not proud of this one - but come on, it's a classic)
8. Hotel California (okay...I had a secular upbringing)

8 Things that Attract Me to My Friends:
1. Transparency
2. Fun and funny (although I'm not so much)
3. Loyal
4. Dependable
5. Devoted to Christ
6. Accepting of me
7. Easy to talk to
8. Not afraid to cry

8 Things I have learned in the last year:
1. I am more than a runner
2. God loved me before I ever thought I had anything to offer Him
3. I can have every comfort in my life stripped away and as long as I have God, my husbands and my babies....I will survive - and grow tremendously in the process
4. Language learning is hard.
5. God wants me dependent on Him and NOTHING else
6. That I really love homeschooling and can't wait to do it again.
7. That John is my bestest, bestest friend in the entire world.
8. That it's okay to cry and to cry often! And that people will still like me if I do.

People I have decided to tag for this: (this means you have to do one and put it on your blog, time permitting - of course)
1. Paula
2. Jenny M.
3. Kitty
4. Jonatha
5. Heather
6. John M.
7. Brooke
8. Steffanie
9. Michelle D.
10. Pamela
11. Aimee Alich
12. Kathryn E.