Top Five 5, 6, 7 and 8

Yet again I must play catch up. Mrs. Becky is churning these out too quickly!

Top five favorite indulgent foods:

1. Chocolate Decadent Cake with Raspberries

2. Santa's White Christmas ice cream

3. Caramel Apple Spice from Starbucks (literally tastes like a carmel apple)

4. Aunt Rufus' Red Velvet Cake

5. White Swan breakfast buffet (you have to have it to understand...)

Top five favorite clothing items:

1. new red pea coat

2. ankle length khaki skirt

3. Ann Taylor seersucker sundress (found at Goodwill!)

4. long lace camisoles

5. forest green medieval dress (compliments of my dearest Mama)

Top five impactful Scriptures:

1. Psalm 4:8 - God is our Protector!

2. Zechariah 3:1-9 - Thanks be to Him who has changed my filthy rags!

3. Isaiah 43:1-5 - Wow. God is a gracious God!

4. Hosea 6:3 - I love the analogy of a shower!

5. Proverbs 5:1-6 & Proverbs 31:10-31 - Comparing these two women is sobering and inspiring.

Top five favorite romantic comedies:

1. You've Got Mail

2. Return to Me

3. The Importance of Being Earnest

4. As Time Goes By

5. most all Jane Austens

Top Five 4

For today's top five, list the top five favorite chores to do around the house:

1. tidying

2. organizing

3. vacuuming

4. wiping down bathrooms

5. washing dishes

I have a "happy knack" (does anyone know where that came from?) for tidying and organizing; it's cleaning up from it that I don't enjoy! And nothing beats the fresh, clean feeling you experience after the house has been vacuumed and the bathrooms are sanitary. And, what can I say, I like to deluge my hand in hot water and dry up all the clean shining dishes afterward!

How I wish I had a better attitude when it comes to chores. May my desire always be that "in whatever you do, in word or deed, do all to the glory of God."

Top Five 3

I really do think that Mrs. Becky is trying to make my brain explode!

List your top five favorite books, other than the Bible (for Mrs. Becky's reasoning on this, which I totally agree with, click here). Being the bibliophile that I am, in order to list just five, I have to limit myself to fiction, and non-children's fiction at that! Mine are in no particular order:

1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
5. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Humph. Ok. That might be one of the hardest things I've ever done. There are definitely some I left out of that list that deserve to be there. Maybe I'll to a post with a list of ALL my favorite books!

Top Fives

I'm joining my sister and Mrs. Myers in posting top five lists. Mrs. Becky will continue to post the category, and then we get to write our answers. Hop in, if you please! Today I'm posting two, because I'm late.

This one is unfairly hard! Top five places you'd like to visit:

1. England (In case anyone was wondering on that score, I'll put it first.)

2. Ireland

3. Germany

4. thirteen original colonies

5. Prince Edward Island

If given a 24 hour period to do anything you wanted to unwind and relax, what would they be?

1. Go on a long hike in the mountains

2. Sit at a grand piano and play to my heart's content (Oh, to have a grand piano!)

3. Curl up in a big armchair beside a roaring fire with apple cider or hot tea in hand and read an old favorite

4. Enjoy the beauty of the sunrise over fields and forests while reading Scripture

5. Sit under a shade tree during the summer, simply dreaming

A Meme

I always feel a bit selfish answering these questions...but it is a lot of fun! I don't really care if you read this or not, but here it is! :)

If you could live anywhere in any house, where and what would it be? Well, I love being here at home, but if I had to leave, without a doubt, Lyme Park.

What are you wearing now? A bathing suit that greatly resembles one that would be worn in the 1930's. Hurrah for vintage styles...modest and chic!

What is on your desk? A pretty lamp, a candle (don't ask me why I have both on here :P), my gold ink and stamp set, some dried flowers, a tile with a butterfly painted on it and a letter to be mailed.

What would you like to learn to do? Speak French, Gaelic, German, Old English and Mandarin and draw (well).

What was the last thing you bought? Hmm...I think a green and white dish for my hopechest.

What one item do you currently want? Old books are always nice, but a few plane tickets to Europe would not be shunned either!

What languages can you speak? English, some Latin and the teeniest bit of Spanish and French.

What is the last book you read? Discipline, by Elisabeth Elliot

What do you want to be when you grow up? A godly wife and mother.

What are your favorite websites? Gmail :), select blogs, Behind the Name and Arwen-Undomiel.

If you were to pick up a pen right now, what would be the first thing you'd write? Probably a letter to a fictional friend in my head or a list of random names...I'm obsessed with names!

If you you could be anywhere in the world at any point in time, where would you be? Seriously? That isn't a fair question! How can I pick just one?!?! Fine...right now I think it would be neat to visit the pre-war South. Oh! or the 1830's in England with those outrageous puffed sleeves! The Reformation would be neat as well...Ah! I really can't decide!

If you could be an animal, what would you be? Good question...I think a Blue Jay would be neat. They're gorgeous and they can fly (a skill I am dying to learn :)). But then it would be so neat to be a horse and run as fast as the wind. Hmm...

What are you looking forward to in the near future? Independence Day! and the beginning of fall!

If you could open up your own store or business, what would it be? A children's bookstore~

What are you doing right now, besides typing out the answers to these questions? Listening to Pandora!

I tag...Mrs. Rees!