Self Study Sunday: Life Time Line

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There is nothing quite as revealing as looking at the events in your life that make you who you are. The truth is, no one person's time-line looks the same as another's. So this is our project today, create yours! If you need a little more information, you can check out my inspiration here. The dates are not as important as the events. Write down only the events that matter to you, not what "should" be on it.

Here is a look at mine. Notice how few dates are included.

• July 1987- Birth

• Moved to VA. I also associate this time with my Dad becoming a part of our lives. (My dad is actually my step father, but he has never been that to me.)
• Saved by Grace and called into missions. I have my parents' fabulous neighbor to thank for that.
• 7th grade- pulled out of public schools and started homeschooling.  This really OPENED a lot of doors for me. See below.
• 2 mission trips to the Philippines.
• Teen Summer camp- I decided to go to the tiny Christian university in Oklahoma, Southwestern Christian University.
• 2005- Mission trip to the place that has always had my heart, Japan.
• Chris- All you need to know is he was abusive and I was naive.
• Andrew- My true knight in shinning armor came along.
• 2007 Left my life and love in VA and headed to OK for school.
• Dustin- A good friend I met in school who followed my lead and moved back to VA after college.
• South Africa- I spent my last semester at school interning overseas.
• 2009- First real job as an Instructional assistant.
• Jan.  2010 Married my prince.
• Carlie- God's way of telling me I'm not alone and friends do exsist.
• Dec. 2010- Benjamin was born!
• Squash- I miscarried right before Ben's first birthday. It was early on, so the only name we had was "Squash".
• 2012- The move. We moved in with the in-laws.
• Nov. 2012- Henry was born!
• Blogging

So, this is my life in a nutshell. Yes, there is a lot more, but this is what made me!
 Join me for the link up... Share what made you, or do any one of the other ideas I've posted!

Self Study Sunday 2

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Here we are again! Please join me for Self Study Sunday! I'd like to remind you that if you decide to link up, please share a link to your site below! I have several good options to choose from this week. I love the questions myself!

Digging Deeper: Quiz

Remember a few days ago when we did that quiz about "The Big Five"? I've got another one of those for you. It has a more detailed questionnaire. You can find this "Understand Yourself" quiz here.

Here are my results, just in case you were curious. These are based in 0-100 scale. Please take the quiz to understand my results!

Extraversion 78
Agreeableness 67
Conscientiousness 83
Neuroticism 59
Openness to Experience 82

Digging Deeper: Self Study Sunday

Today I am introducing this month's weekly link up, "Self Study Sundays". Below is the icon if you wish to join me every week! Here is how you do it. On Each Sunday of October you write, explore, or create something that helps you learn a little more about yourself. You are free to use the ideas I have written about over the month or to come up with your own. Do please let me know you are joining me by commenting on my Sunday post that week! Although its late, feel free to join today!

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My apologies for the lack of post over the weekend. I had a fantastic (although late nights) time at the Extraordinary Womens' Conference! If you have never been to one, I highly recommend it. I saw Third Day and Tim Hawkins... it was a blast!

Self Study Sunday

Today's job is find a word that you think describes you. Pick the first one that comes to mind. Then, find the definition and other important information about the word. If your adventurous you can ask your spouse for one word they think describes you. You could also ask a pastor, friend, teacher, coworker, etc.

The word that automatically comes to mind for me is creative. A Webster online gave me this:

Creative- 

:  marked by the ability or power to create :  given to creating 

:  having the quality of something created rather than imitated  
:  imaginative 

:  managed so as to get around legal or conventional limits  
also :  deceptively arranged so as to conceal or defraud 

One of my dear friends gave me a list of words including, confident, intelligent, beautiful, and, driven, but I decided to take the first word she said which was "bad-ass". Yes it made me laugh. Here's what Webster has to say about about that:

Bad-ass-

often vulgar :  ready to cause or get into trouble
 :  mean 

often vulgar :  of formidable strength or skill 

Ok, interesting perspective. Haha!

Another friend gave me the word "confident". Let's see what Webster has to say about this one.

Confident-

: having a feeling or belief that you can do something well or succeed at something : having confidence
: showing that you have confidence

: certain that something will happen or that something is true

: having a feeling or belief that you can do something well or succeed at something : having confidence
: showing that you have confidence

: certain that something will happen or that something is true

When I asked my husband for a word he gave "energetic".

Energetic-

: having or showing a lot of energy

: involving a lot of effort

Well there you have it! I am an odd mix!