Chats on the Farmhouse Porch

It's time to head over to Patrice's porch for the weekly chat. Welcome to the new participants in the chat!

Questions 

1. Do you eat eggs? What is your favorite way to serve them? I do and my favorite way to serve them is just plain scrambled, maybe with a little cheese melted on top.
2. Do you have a favorite item that you really like having around? (a pillow, a chair, a sweater, a teddy bear, etc.) I have one of those body pillows and I can't sleep without it!
3. Is most of the furniture in your home dark wood, light wood, painted, lacquered, or distressed? Light wood except for the floors which aren't really dark but they're not light either.
4. Please fill in the rest of this sentence. "I could write a book about__crocheting__________."
5. If money and calendar/family obligations weren't an issue, would you prefer to spend next weekend at a Bed and Breakfast, a posh hotel, a cabin in the woods, or on a sailboat on a calm body of water? I guess the last thing, the sailboat, would have to be someplace warm. :) (It's 30+ degrees here.) A cabin in the woods would always be my first choice.

Coffee Chat

Time for the Coffee Chat! If you'd like to join, head over to Leslie's at Time out for Mom.

The topic is: Have you ever won an award?

I've received quite a few awards in my life - most of them have been for some sort of academic achievement. It does make you feel good to get an award and having some sort of competition has always helped me to focus on the task and try to do my best. I like winning - I like getting a better "grade" than someone else - I like "ruining the curve" - is that wrong?

Monday Quiz About Me

Heather over at Acting Balanced  posts 5 questions on Sunday evening along with a linky for you to link up your post answers! 

Here are the Questions:

1. What was your favorite lunch this past week?I don't normally eat lunch so I can't say that I have a favorite.
2. Do you shop online? More than I would like. I like the idea of shopping locally but sometimes it's just so much easier to  do it online.
3. Do you get the "Winter Blues"? A little - I get the "itch" to be able to go outside and plant my garden and it seems to take forever for spring to get here.
4. Slippers, Socks, Shoes or Bare Feet? Bare feet - I used to be able to run across gravel in my bare feet because I never wore shoes and my feet were so "tough" but I'm not quite that bad anymore.

And don't forget to add a 5th Question on your own blog so we can answer as we hop around!

 

5. Because you just reminded me of gardening - Are you a gardener? I am!

Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun

Welcome to the weekly Follow Friday Four Fill-in Fun Blog Hop!

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Each week, Hilary over at Feeling Beachie lists four statements with a blank for you to fill in on your own blogs.  This week’s co-host is Wayne from Touristic – he came up with the last two statements!
This week's statements:
1. I am a caffeine addict - but I guess there are worse things I could be addicted to.
2. Sometimes I don’t know when to stop and just relax.
1. My two favorite words lately are day and off (when put together)
2. I would like to travel if bills didn’t happen

Please add the Follow Friday button to your post, or your blog.
Please follow Hilary. Since Google Friend connect is gone, please follow through networked blogs, Facebook fan page or by email….If there is a co-host, please follow them as well. Leave a comment! She will follow back!
Please link your Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun post to the linky below. PLEASE grab the linky and post on your blog…
If you tweet, please use #F5-bloghop so she can find you…

Pondering With a Purpose

Thursday again! Time to do a little "pondering" with Brenda from Ponderings of an Author.

Her rules are really easy:

1. Grab the Pondering with a Purpose Badge (in her sidebar)

2. Look at the week's prompt

3. Post something on your blog that relates to the prompt - it can be a story, a poem, a picture -- anything you want it to be.

4. Go back here and add the URL from your post to the linky list on Brenda's.

5. Go check out the other bloggers who have added their links to the list.

6. AND most of all.... Have fun!

This Week's prompt:  Love thyself  - Do you love yourself?

This is a tough question. I tend to be my own worst critic.I'm not much of an "outgoing" person - definitely not an "extrovert" but not completely "introverted" either, although I used to be. To clarify - I used to sit quietly, never saying a word, stayed to myself and let people use me and then run over me once they were finished. I'm proud to say I no longer do that. I've grown a lot but it's still an inner battle to stand up for myself. I think it goes back to my childhood. Let's just say that I had no feelings of self-worth back then. I was ridiculed and preached at and NEVER achieved as much as I should have according to my mother. How can a child do better than straight A's on a report card? Never could figure that one out.

But I've come a long way. I don't listen to it anymore. I listen to those who realize what I HAVE accomplished and those who believe in what I can still accomplish. 

But do I love myself? I try. I like myself but it's a struggle, a battle I'm still fighting.