I've been tagged

It's finally happened, I've been tagged, I was wondering when it would happen, the anticipation was killing me, I'm so glad that the stress of being tagged is over... I'm being totally and utterly sarcastic here folks, it's a defensive mechanism because I have to actually put down in writing a few things that I can't live with out. And, unlike my good friend who tagged me running shoes were not the first thing to mind, sadly folks, it was Chipotle.... I know, I know, you say to yourselves, there's your spouse, your children, family, friends, and this is what pops to mind. What can I say, I have a soft spot (and a soft belly) for the restaurant. However on further inspection of my thoughts, I found it wasn't the only thing I couldn't live without, it didn't even make the top 5.

5. Caffenine/Sleep- I've combined the 2 because if I have one I usually don't need much of the other. However without either, I'm useless and not my nice, chipper self, in fact you may not recognize me at all, but if you see a slightly insane looking woman with brown hair and blond highlights with 3 boys about to pull out her hair and/or on the verge of screaming, ask her, have you had your #5 today?

4. Girlfriends- I have friends from years ago and friends from months ago, I have poured my heart out to them, and cried on their shoulders. I've had girlfriends sit with me through immense grief in my life and cheer me on through immense happiness. Girlfriends, understand things that spouses just can't, and I'm so blessed to have them in my life.

3. Gospel - Without the Gospel in my life, I am pretty sure I would be on Maury or Jerry Springer, I would be living a life, that was considered "normal" with drinking, smoking, drugs, affairs and backstabbing... My life would not be close to what it resembles now. I don't know if my friend Wendy will ever know how much she changed my life just by inviting me to church and introducing me to the missionaries. I now know where I came from, who I am, and where I want to go.

2. Josh - I am finding out 1st hand how much I can NOT live without him. I knew this would be a difficult year, but in the back of my mind I thought, he's gone with work and school and I'm busy with the kids and school we barely see eachother, what is a year apart? What??!! Let me tell you it's a whole lot. I can't live without this man and just don't want to, can't wait to put my arms around my husband and give him a big hug.

1. My kids - and the top thing I could not live without is my children. I don't even know what to write here, other than I am pretty sure I didn't understand the concept of selfless love until my children, I know that I didn't know truely how much I could be happy by just sitting in a room and watching kids play or how sad I could get by watching my son struggle with something. Like the air I breathe, I don't think I could survive without my children...