Random Dozen, Valentine’s Day Style

It’s been awhile since I linked up for one of these so I thought I’d give it a go this week:

1. Are you pleasant when you're ill, or are you a grumpy, fussy patient?
Unfortunately for my husband, I am a grumpy, fussy patient. I like to be babied and doted on taken care of.

2. When you find out that school is canceled (due to inclement weather) what is your gut reaction?
Well it doesn’t really affect me now, but when I was working at the middle school, my gut reaction was YES! SLEEP!

3. What is one domestic skill you wish you could improve?
Oh, too many to count, but I’ll go with sewing, due to my recent disaster project.

4. Do you decorate your home for Valentine's Day?
No. I just don’t have any decorations and can’t justify spending the money on them. Wait. I take that back. I have a dish towel:

5. What song is on your mind today?
This song – because it should be the prayer of my heart, but I know it’s not where I am right now. Particularly in light of the recent home going of a friend’s husband – would I be able to sing this song as a widowed mother at age 26? I don’t know. But I know the words of this song are true: “You are good when I’m poor and needy. You are true when I’m parched and dry…You’re still God in the darkest night.” Such good, good lyrics.


Speaking of good lyrics – I just have to put in a plug here for Sovereign Grace Music. Their songs are chock full of good, solid truth. I can’t get enough of them! This is another of my most recent favorites that we sang in church last Sunday:

6. Do you prefer contemporary movies or classic?
No preference, really.

7. How well do you "compartmentalize" your feelings? For example, how well can you put aside a really trying moment to deal with the immediate situation which is not related to the trying moment, e.g., putting aside a tiff with your spouse in order to finish wallpapering a room.
Well, I know the ability to compartmentalize is  typically a male quality, but I’d say I’m pretty good at it – for a woman, anyway. I don’t think I’m super emotional.

{Please don’t talk to my husband about this. He might give you a different answer :) }

8. What is the first thing that attracted you to your spouse? (Or if you're single, to your best friend.)
His kindness. Even before I started thinking about dating him, I thought he was hands down the nicest guy I’d ever met.

Oh, and if we’re talking physical traits – his dimples :) I’m probably going to get in trouble for saying that on the Internet :)

9. When was the last time your heart raced? Just this morning when my 16 month old got halfway up our {very steep} flight of stairs before I noticed. Yeah. I’m am awesome mom :-\

10. What are your memories of Valentine's Day at school? I remember making mailboxes in elementary school to hold all our Valentine’s. It was always kind of a competition to see who could make the most creative one. And I remember painstakingly trying to pick platonic Valentine’s to give to the boys in my class.

11. If you were going to receive candy for Valentine's Day, which would you prefer?
I was just talking to Dave about this – we saw one of these commercials for Russell Stover’s:

 And I told him he could just skip the heart shaped box and give me a big old bag of these:

Or these – milk chocolate, not dark – mmmmm…. 
12. Red or pink?
 PINK! What can I say? I’m a girly girl :)

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HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!