About Me

  • About Me: We are a Christian family and have been married for 20 years. Wow!! It surely doesn't seem like that long....time surely flies.....My hubby is my best friend.....We have known each other since grade school, and we were high school sweethearts.... We live in Michigan w/ our 7 children, 5 girls and 2 boys, ages ranging from 19 to 3.... Our newest blessing, Bethany Anne, was stillborn on January 2, 2006. We also have 4 other little angels in heaven, due to miscarriages. Hubby is a machinist and I am a stay-at-home Mom.....we homeschool and luv it....

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Cooking w/ Paul Deen, Barefoot Contessa
  • Favorite Channels: Food TV.......
  • Favorite Reruns: Everybody Loves Raymond

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: My Fair Lady... Yours, Mine and Ours (the classic)....Spencer's Mountain, Cheaper by the Dozen and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.....The Sound of Music....Pride and Prejudice

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Casting Crowns, Alan Jackson, Martina McBride, Selah, Jeremy Camp, Third Day,
  • Favorite Albums: Alan Jackson's Precious Memories
  • Favorite Genre: Christian, Country Music, Some Classical
  • Guilty Pleasure: anything by Bon Jovi

Travel

  • Places I've been: Washington D.C., North Carolina,
  • Dream Vacation: To someday visit New York City between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays

More About Me

  • Interests: Homeschooling (gotta say I luv having my kids home w/ me...it's the best thing we could have done for our family....It has brought us so much closer.....I can't imagine what our lives would be like if they were in school all day.....) Cooking & Baking (although Natalie and Nikki do help out with alot of the cooking around here.....) Collecting Recipes, Reading, and, spending way too much time on my computer.....
  • Website: http://www.bkyoungfamily.com

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Love Comes Softly series.....The Amish Cook......All 3 of my Tightwad Gazette books.....
  • Favorite Authors: Jeanette Oke, Beverly Lewis,
  • Favorite Genres: Christian Romance, Christian Fiction and cookbooks
  • Favorite Characters: Love the characters in the Love Comes Softly series.....
  • Recent Reads: reading lots of books about herbs, books about losing a child, and always "reading" my cookbooks...

Video Games

  • Games I Play: haven't played in a very long time, but used to play w/ the kds......
  • Consoles: Gamecube
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Pacman
  • Most Addictive: Pacman
  • Proudest Achievements: We rented a scooby doo game for the gamecube...kept it for about 2 weeks, and made it through the entire thing......

Food

  • Favorite Drinks: Water (really!) and ice tea
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Munchos and Funions

High School

  • School Name: Durand Area High School
  • Class of: 1986