About Me

        I am, firstly, a follower of Christ and forever in His debt for what He has done for me on the cross. I know I don't love Him nearly as much as I should, and I am not as dedicated a servant as I know He deserves, but it is my first and foremost goal in life to bring Him glory and honor in all that I do. You can read a bit more about what my faith looks like in this post.

       I have a younger brother whom I love dearly, despite his (hopefully) temporary lack of maturity. He hasn't quite grown up yet, so I'll give him a couple more years. ;) He spends most of his time keeping bees and doing other bee-related things, and adding to his collection of fly-fishing equipment. He gets along really well with old men, because he can talk to them about fishing and other things of that nature, while the boys in this age and area are just interested in video games and the like. We, if you hadn't guessed, don't 'do' video games. Don't get me wrong, it's not that we think that they are inherently evil (at least not most of them, haha), but they are addictive and a waste of time, to put it bluntly. 

        I was homeschooled through high school, and I think that is the greatest blessings of my life. My mom had not ever planned to homeschool me, until she was unable to register me for public school and had no other choice. THANK YOU LORD!!!! Our whole family has been so blessed by it and I could imagine going to school anywhere but my house or being taught by anyone but my mom throughout my school years. I now am studying at a junior college and will hopefully be transfering to a university Fall 2016. By the way, I have wonderful parents as well. My dad is a police sergeant for the city where we live, and he works very hard in order to support our family. My mom doesn't work, in a certain sense, but she does work, in another. She is always busy; with farm work, with teaching us, and with work around the house. She has really amazed me in the past couple of years with the skills she has in carpentry and building as well.

         I am a big reader, and a big fan of several movies as well. Here are a few lists of my 'favorite things':

BOOKS: 

The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings series, The Silmarillion, The Book Of Lost Tales, and anything else written by J.R.R Tolkien.

The Redwall series of books, by Brian Jaccques.

Quo Vadis, by Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Any Jane Austen book, my favorites are Pride And Prejudice and Emma.

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.

The Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis - these books never get old.

The Eagle Of The Ninth, by Rosemary Sutcliffe.

Rifles For Watie, by Harold Keith. Note: I do not agree with all of the political views on the Civil War in this book, particularly some of the pro-Union ones.

The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy.

 North And South, and Wives And Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell.

MOVIES:

The Hobbit, and The Lord Of The Rings movies

Pride And Prejudice (BBC)

Emma (BBC)

North And South (BBC)

Wives And Daughters (BBC)

Cranford and Return To Cranford (BBC)

 The Scarlet Pimpernel

Star Wars (particularly the original trilogy)

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl

The Sound Of Music (the one with Julie Andrews)

Monsters Inc, Toy Story 1 and 2, UP, and some other Pixar movies I can't think of right now.

All Marvel movies with  Steve Rogers, Thor, or Hawkeye in them.

MUSICALS:

Les Miserables

The Phantom Of The Opera

The Sound Of Music

Oliver!

CATS

Blessings,

Reyna