My TOP TEN TAGGERS

I have given this a lot of thought...hope I have hit on truly the top 10
1. I love my five children (and as time has passed, my 3 in-laws and 3 grandbabies.) They are what defines me. My most joyful moments have come as I have watched them become the great people they are. I am still continually surprised, yet delighted, that they are all incredibly beautiful or handsome (who would have thought), intelligent and articulate, musical (who would have guessed) and funny! I had a real "aha" moment when Andrew was the star of a basketball game played in the Idaho Falls gym that I had spent so much time in as a teen.

2. I had always thought I would become a great writer or poetess. I was not well disciplined. Yet, I smile when I see what great writers many of my children are. Maybe, now, in my empty nest stage, I will practice the craft and see if I can't turn out some good stuff, if just for my own enjoyment.

3. I always wanted to be a ballerina...hilarious, isn't it. I have said that in the resurrection my reward is that I will either be a great ballerina or a very talented singer. Doesn't it say somewhere in the scriptures that your weaknesses will become your strengths.

4. I love to travel...no actually I love studying about the place that I will visit and making up an itinerary that I would love to do if I were making all the choices. And then I just enjoy travelling there. I have enjoyed our recent trips to New York and Illinois and Missouri. I look forward to our upcoming trip to Portland in November. And I hope to fill my life with lots and lots of trips.

5. I love furniture...so much so, that often when I visit a city I scout out the furniture stores and tour them as if they were museums (this is if I am alone.) Good furniture is a work of art and should be treated as such. I wish I had more confidence in my interior design capabilities and it would be the passion of my life.

6. A few years ago as we were lying in bed Bryant asked me what I would like to be (career wise) if I could doing anything and I responded, "I would like to be a curator of a museum." He said questioningly, "You want to be a character in a wax museum?" So much for that dream!

7. I want to be thin...but as Trent says, "Pretty much in life we get what we want the most." And I guess I don't want it bad enough, because I certainly am not thin. I think I grew up in a family that prized "thinness" more than most things. ENOUGH SAID!

8. I hate it when people "go over" their allotted time in talks or prayers in church. It is pathetic...you would think I was in control of the meeting or something. In fact, I have been known to get up and leave a church meeting if a person is talking way past their time, because emotionally I can't stand it!

9. I love really good fruit....melons, peaches, pears, grapes, berries, etc. etc. It is sort of ironic that I am allergic to some of these things (mango, avocado) that I love so much. It makes me sad that I have passed on these allergies to some of my children..and it has affected their life so much. Word of advice...don't ever eat anything you might be allergic to in a foreign country...I almost suffered the ills of that in Mexico and Mark did in Europe!

10. When I was a young girl, maybe 12 of 13, I told my mother that I wanted my husband to be the first boy I would kiss....she laughed at me and said that was silly and wouldn't happen. She was wrong...I did marry the first boy I ever kissed (of course, I went on to kiss a few in the interim.) So to Bryant...I am glad that you were the first boy I ever kissed and I was the first girl you ever kissed.

Now, for tagging. If you read this and you haven't been tagged, I challenge you. Specifically, Grandma and Grandpa Nelson are tagged.