Kim has been busy tagging people...

Here goes... Enjoy...

20 Years Ago. . .

1. I was 13 years old.
2. I was a freshman in high school; new school, new district.
3. I was a band geek.
4. I had a horse named Sugar.

10 Years Ago...

1. my father had been gone for almost 3 years.
2. I was going to school full time at MPC, loving my physics, calculus and history classes and working at the college.
3. I was juggling school with and a 5 year old.
4. I was newly engaged.

5 Years Ago...

1. we had lost our income due to the dot.com crash.
2. I was a SAHM with a 10 year old and a almost 2 year old.
3. I was homeschooling a 6th grader.
4. we moved in with my Mom.

3 Years Ago...

1. I started working as a Public Safety Dispatcher.
2. I became the mother of a high school student. (I had always been her mother, but she started high school.... talk about making you feel old!)
3. we had already been living in Magalia for a year and a half.
4. we were renting a house from my Mom.

1 Year Ago...

1. I enjoyed a family trip to San Francisco where we got to play tourist while visiting Alcatraz, the Exploratorium, two aquariums and Coit Tower.
2. I was planning a family trip to Disneyland.
3. I really wanted to buy a new car.
4. I started thinking we were close to being reading to buy a house, so the car would have to wait.

So far this year I...

1. have worked 60 hours a week for up to 6 weeks while fires threatened to level Paradise.
2. have bought and moved into a house that we will have a hard time outgrowing.
3. have almost raised all the money I need for the Susan G Komen 3 Day Cancer Walk in November. (I was scheduled to walk in San Francisco in September, but with all Brianne's medical issues, I have rescheduled for the last walk of the year.)
4. have had an internal fire for adoption and foster care re-ignited in my heart.

Yesterday I...

1. left work early because the school nurse thought Brianne may be having another episode.
2. walked partway home while I was waiting for Cam to pick me up. (The van is in the shop, again.)
3. drove Brianne 2 hours to her KP pediatrician to make sure it was just a bug she was catching and not new symptoms to the current problem.
4. got back home from Sac while it was still daylight, woohoo!

Today I...

1. slept through my alarm but was not late to work.
2. found a handsome German Short-haired Pointer up for adoption.
3. can't wait to get home and work on the house some more.
4. have to make something yummy to take to the block party tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will...

1. try not to sleep through my alarm.
2. attend my first block party, on our new block.
3. help Bri and Joce get everything ready for the coming school week.
4. make Joce's lunch for school Monday.

In the next year I will....

1. save enough to have a new roof put on the new house.
2. make plans for acquiring a new vehicle.
3. complete my trek in the Susan G Komen 3 Day Cancer Walk in San Diego in November; 60 miles in 3 days.
4. make a valid effort to keep in contact with old friends.
and...
5. Celebrate Cam's 38th birthday, my 34th, Bri's 16th, Jocelyn's 7th and Claire's 3rd. (I think that covers everyone living in my house right now.)

Thank you Kim! Now I pass the torch to:
1. Beth
2. Niffer
3. Trisha
4. Martha