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Ten Surprises

Advice for anyone feeling short on words: When not feeling particularly bloggy, copy an idea from someone else... got this idea from Susie, who got it from Two Peas.

Ten Surprises I've had in my life:

  1. I'm a lousy housekeeper. I always imagined I'd have a clean house. I'm just not very good at making it happen. And I really don't like housework. At all.
  2. I'm getting lots of grey hair. I never thought it would happen to me. I used to tease my brother Ken about it a lot... what goes around comes around, I guess.
  3. Finding out I was pregnant with K. We hadn't even officially started 'trying.' Surprise!
  4. Finding out I was pregnant with E. I was on the pill at the time!
  5. Realizing that music was not going to be my life-long ministry... I always expected it would be. Now it's not. And that's okay.
  6. My job - I could never have guessed I'd be so lucky to be able to make money doing something I love so much.
  7. Parenting - how hard it is. And how un-natural it is for me much of the time. I never knew it would be so hard. Or so sweet... even in it's hard-ness.
  8. How much I'd love blogging. Silly.
  9. That I could love my husband more with each year of our marriage. It truly just gets better and better all the time.
  10. That God loves me so much. I'll never get over it.

Comments

  1. Susie2:15 PM

    I'll never get over number 10 either, Cath. but then again, how could we put God in a box?

    Guess what- we have something else in common- are you counting yet? Two of my three children were also, ahem, unplanned. The best surprises ;)
    have a great weekend!

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  2. Anonymous7:10 PM

    Cathy,
    you always bring me back to reality -- thank you... T

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  3. Anonymous10:58 AM

    Cathy -
    I think your real-ness should be hailed as one of your greatest strengths - you have taken many of the surprises and totally owned them... that is quite powerful and beautiful.
    I am with you on the housekeeping and parenting - I think the shock was how unnatural some of these "natural" things were...I have a ton of sympathy for single parents - I NEED a partner for both of these areas.

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