A Kaleidoscope Life...
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Wife, Mom, Homeschooler, Research Interviewer |
| Location | Long Island, New York |
| Introduction | Happily married to my college sweetheart, mom of 5, 2 boys and 3 girls, ages 11 - 29, homeschooling our 11 yo ds and our 17 yo dd, part time research interviewer, full time burning for the Lord |
| Interests | Music - Listening, Singing & some songwriting, Writing, Homeschooling, Home Improvements, Gardening, Crafts, Worshipping the Lord and hanging out at Long Island International House of Prayer, Alternative Medicine, Nature, Homesteading, Living "Greener" and Frugal, Crafts, Folk Art, Reading, Movies, Photography |
| Favorite movies | Dirty Dancing, Sweet Lorraine (both because they remind me of my days as a Catskills Brat), Field of Dreams, Frequency, National Treasure 1 & 2, The Holiday, Fly Away Home, Independence Day, You've Got Mail, Moonstruck ("a la familia"), Sleepless in Seattle, Marley and Me (get the tissues please) My Big Fat Greek Weddinging, Guess Who?, Veggie Tales, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Christmas, A Christmas Carol (the Alastair Sim version only, thank you very much), the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Christmas movies (that little dude has his act together - got the real meaning of the holidays...), teacher movies, biopics, chick flicks, and sappy holiday movies, etc. (I'm a total sucker for a movie with a happy ending...) |
| Favorite music | Love all kinds of music. Contemporary Christian (Newsboys, Rich Mullins, John Tesh, Michael Card, Casting Crowns, Sixpence None the Richer, Bebo Norman, Carman, David Crowder, Third Day, Matthew West, Brandon Heath, Rebecca St. James, Mandisa), Jesus Music (Keith Green, Steve Camp, Randy Stonehill, Phil Keaggy, Don Francisco, 2nd Chapter of Acts), Messianic (Lamb, Israel's Hope, Paul Wilbur), Praise and Worship Music (Chris Tomlin, Delirious, Jason Upton, Darlene Zchesch, Morningstar), Latino Music (Marc Anthony, Jon Secada), and '70's Music (Elton John, Jim Croce, Don McClean, Daniel Boone, Dan Fogelberg, Cat Stevens). 60's Folk Rock (Joan Baez, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joni Mitchell), '80s Rock (Bonnie Tyler rocks!, Berlin), some Hard Rock (Alice Cooper's "You and Me" is a big fav), Classical Music (Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Pachelbel's Canon, Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas) The Beatles, Creed, Enya, Five for Fighting, The Goo Goo Dolls, Norah Jones, Barry Manilow, Chicago and more... |
| Favorite books | The Bible, In His Steps - Charles Sheldon, The Cult of the Comfortable - A. Alan Alaimo (who was my pastor years ago), Hinds Feet on High Places, and anything by A. Alan Alaimo, Salem Kirban, Frank Peretti, Pearl S. Buck, and James Michener. Love biographies and historical dramas. |