So, this will be my last blog for at least 10 days, as tomorrow night I begin living at the fireworks stand. Jellybeans until 6, then over to the obviously "arresting" fireworks stand, and the rest of the days spent morning until late from then on. But at least i don't have to sleep there, and hopefully it will be so busy the time will fly.
Not much else happening in my life right now, so i really don't have much to say. Lisa, hope you are feeling better, and Gary, let us know what the dr. says tomorrow....the video was viscious.
You BOUNCED!
i need to get caught up on my dvr shows...does anyone else watch "the 4400"? I just found it and i love it...i might have mentioned that before...but i really do. Also, House reruns are on USA, and i have started watching that too. That guy is hilarious, and the med stuff is cool, too.
and Windfall, which i am an episode behind in.
I am getting caught up on my bible study this week, so i will be on track when we resume class...it is always good to be caught up!!! I really like this study, so hopefully i will keep up with it...
Well, I know this is boring, and that is sad since it is gonna be a while...maybe next week, i will have stories about scary people who buy fireworks from us...
talk at ya then...
Monday, June 26, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
as time goes by
Last night, my good friend lisa called...we chatted about morg's game, how jet lag had finally hit them, just normal stuff...
it made me hark back to the days when i babysat morgan and ashley, and saw lisa almost everyday. That of course led me back to the days of living in the trailer, babysitting 8 kids at one time, not including my own, with the oldest being skyler, who was 5 at the time. Yes, i was a lot younger then!!
Today, i have done 4 loads of laundry so far, and so, feeling the need to reward myself, i went with book in hand to lay in the hammock. Unbelievably, the character in the book is feeling guilty about the unfolded laundry that her cleaning lady will have to fold and put away, and since i do not have a cleaning lady, i felt guilty about the 3 loads of unfolded laundry in the living room on the couch. So i went back in and folded the laundry with skyler helping. She is such a good girl.
Why is it that i don't seem to mind sorting the yucky dirty laundry, getting it to the washer, then dryer, and into a basket, or at least to the couch, but I hate folding clean, sweet smelling, warm clothes??? This makes no sense. Is it knowing that no matter how much I fold and put away, there is always another load to do? Is it knowing that there really is no end in sight for the wife and/or mother when dealing with laundry? Or am i just lazy? Hey, that might be it!!
Barrett mowed yesterday, do you not just love the scent of a freshly mowed lawn? It looks so good, and i am sure it gives him such a sense of accomplishment, ha ha.
Well, we are off to find tennis shoes for Skyler, keds preferably, so gotta go. I would love to say i will blog more tomorrow, but don't wanna get your hopes up.:)
it made me hark back to the days when i babysat morgan and ashley, and saw lisa almost everyday. That of course led me back to the days of living in the trailer, babysitting 8 kids at one time, not including my own, with the oldest being skyler, who was 5 at the time. Yes, i was a lot younger then!!
Today, i have done 4 loads of laundry so far, and so, feeling the need to reward myself, i went with book in hand to lay in the hammock. Unbelievably, the character in the book is feeling guilty about the unfolded laundry that her cleaning lady will have to fold and put away, and since i do not have a cleaning lady, i felt guilty about the 3 loads of unfolded laundry in the living room on the couch. So i went back in and folded the laundry with skyler helping. She is such a good girl.
Why is it that i don't seem to mind sorting the yucky dirty laundry, getting it to the washer, then dryer, and into a basket, or at least to the couch, but I hate folding clean, sweet smelling, warm clothes??? This makes no sense. Is it knowing that no matter how much I fold and put away, there is always another load to do? Is it knowing that there really is no end in sight for the wife and/or mother when dealing with laundry? Or am i just lazy? Hey, that might be it!!
Barrett mowed yesterday, do you not just love the scent of a freshly mowed lawn? It looks so good, and i am sure it gives him such a sense of accomplishment, ha ha.
Well, we are off to find tennis shoes for Skyler, keds preferably, so gotta go. I would love to say i will blog more tomorrow, but don't wanna get your hopes up.:)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
just stuff
So, i finished, mostly anyway, the cd that admin and i have been working on for some time now. At least i am finished with my part, now the magic begins at the hands of the producer. We are maybe still gonna do one more song, but we are having trouble being able to download it. I say that as if I have been working on it so fiercely, when in reality ryan is the one doing the hard work. I will be glad to have a cd in hand, and I won't have to feel guilty about taking up his time more and more.
Okay, so at admins house, he lives with that BEAUTIFUL missy wade, adorable millie and precious roscoe. Just let me tell you, we love that family. And tonight, millie and i actually had conversation! Not just me trying to get her to like me and talk to me, but her initiating conversation, showing me her leg and foot where she used the markers to color herself, and calling me "miss cindy" and coming downstairs to see where we were recording and telling me that AJ was trying to eat my bag. I am so excited!
today, the manager at Qdoba dropped off a couple bags of chips, some cheese sauce, salsa and guacamole. Then she said if we go next door and say we work at Jellybeans, we get 20% off of our order, and if we buy a large drink, we can get free refills anytime we want! Like if i buy a drink today, i can go back on saturday and get a free refill! Actually i already knew about the drink, and we go everyday for the refills, but the 20% off came as a delightful surprise. So, when my stomach finally growled tonight, i had some chips and stuff, folded laundry from last week, and then went and swung on the hammock for a little while, until the mesquitos drove me back inside.
Now i am blogging. Nothing exciting, just my night. I remember when i was a kid and being so bored because we had nothing to do, no plans, just at home. I would love to just have nothing to do some evening. Not that we never do, they just seem so seldome anymore. And the next 15 days will be round the clock with the fireworks stand, then before you know it, the fair, and then school will be starting again!!! Yikes!
Sorry, that sounded like complaining, and i don't mean it like that. I just miss the old days sometimes. Hey, my mom is home, she went home yesterday, and seems to be doing great, right daddy? She seems to have breezed right thru the hip replacement, and now the rehab,, which will take a while. But she has been a real trooper.
So, that is all for tonight, i am making a list of things to blog about, so that maybe it will not be so long between posts. See ya on the flip side.
Okay, so at admins house, he lives with that BEAUTIFUL missy wade, adorable millie and precious roscoe. Just let me tell you, we love that family. And tonight, millie and i actually had conversation! Not just me trying to get her to like me and talk to me, but her initiating conversation, showing me her leg and foot where she used the markers to color herself, and calling me "miss cindy" and coming downstairs to see where we were recording and telling me that AJ was trying to eat my bag. I am so excited!
today, the manager at Qdoba dropped off a couple bags of chips, some cheese sauce, salsa and guacamole. Then she said if we go next door and say we work at Jellybeans, we get 20% off of our order, and if we buy a large drink, we can get free refills anytime we want! Like if i buy a drink today, i can go back on saturday and get a free refill! Actually i already knew about the drink, and we go everyday for the refills, but the 20% off came as a delightful surprise. So, when my stomach finally growled tonight, i had some chips and stuff, folded laundry from last week, and then went and swung on the hammock for a little while, until the mesquitos drove me back inside.
Now i am blogging. Nothing exciting, just my night. I remember when i was a kid and being so bored because we had nothing to do, no plans, just at home. I would love to just have nothing to do some evening. Not that we never do, they just seem so seldome anymore. And the next 15 days will be round the clock with the fireworks stand, then before you know it, the fair, and then school will be starting again!!! Yikes!
Sorry, that sounded like complaining, and i don't mean it like that. I just miss the old days sometimes. Hey, my mom is home, she went home yesterday, and seems to be doing great, right daddy? She seems to have breezed right thru the hip replacement, and now the rehab,, which will take a while. But she has been a real trooper.
So, that is all for tonight, i am making a list of things to blog about, so that maybe it will not be so long between posts. See ya on the flip side.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
the american dream....
I am at home right now with barrett, mark is at a dinner with gary k, and skyler is at work, she should be home soon. If i sit here long enough, i will begin to cry over how the LORD has blessed me and my family. We have a great friend who is in our circle of care :) who is fond of saying we are living the american dream. Well, sometimes it is not such a dream, but believe me, it is blessing after blessing, even as laura said tonight in bible study, if the blessings are running parallel to the "unanswered".
Let me get all sentimental here for a moment...you can stop right now if you don't like mushy.
17 years ago this month, mark and I found out we were expecting Skyler. Quite a surprise, that girl, although really not so much. As mary lou said..."you gotta pay the piper if you wanna dance." Anyway, we were so scared and so unsure of what the future held, but because of amazing family, friends (Thanks randy and tammi) and a pastor who told us not what we wanted to hear, but needed to, we knew that God only wanted his best for us. And we were willing to do whatever it took to give him our best too. So on July 29, we will celebrate 17 years of being not just married, but getting to live our lives with the one God chose for us.
Flash forward a few years and we have Barrett, who is so much like his daddy, it is scary and funny at the same time!! Go forward many more years, and here we are...far from perfect, but man, God has not let us down once. Skyler, who is now working, driving, a junior in high school, but still calls to tell me she is leaving to come home, and tomorrow, since we are both off, do I wanna hang out? ( My mom has hip replacement surgery tom. so i will hanging out at St. Johns tho). Barrett, who is now taller than me, a 7th grader, and could most likely deck me if he wanted, instead comes in and kisses my cheek and says he loves me as he passes thru the kitchen. And my husband, who knows all my bad habits and insecurities, and who knows better than anyone that i could stand to loose some poundage, ( he would never tell me that, tho) still wants to snuggle in the chair and 1/2, that somehow has mananged to shrink since we bought it a few years ago! That man is my dream come true, and i cannot believe most of the time he chose me. Our families have changed, some have gone on to heaven, everyone is older, our friends have been added to, some have moved away, and we still love that pastor rogers, and love our pastor eddie so much. Our church has changed too, and great changes are in store. But the one thing that hasn't is that God still is pouring out his best for us.
I started to put sorry this is so long, but i am not really. This blog will allow me to occassionally share my heart, not just my mindless pursuits and gibberish. I AM living the american dream, thanks to my friend for the needed reminder.
Let me get all sentimental here for a moment...you can stop right now if you don't like mushy.
17 years ago this month, mark and I found out we were expecting Skyler. Quite a surprise, that girl, although really not so much. As mary lou said..."you gotta pay the piper if you wanna dance." Anyway, we were so scared and so unsure of what the future held, but because of amazing family, friends (Thanks randy and tammi) and a pastor who told us not what we wanted to hear, but needed to, we knew that God only wanted his best for us. And we were willing to do whatever it took to give him our best too. So on July 29, we will celebrate 17 years of being not just married, but getting to live our lives with the one God chose for us.
Flash forward a few years and we have Barrett, who is so much like his daddy, it is scary and funny at the same time!! Go forward many more years, and here we are...far from perfect, but man, God has not let us down once. Skyler, who is now working, driving, a junior in high school, but still calls to tell me she is leaving to come home, and tomorrow, since we are both off, do I wanna hang out? ( My mom has hip replacement surgery tom. so i will hanging out at St. Johns tho). Barrett, who is now taller than me, a 7th grader, and could most likely deck me if he wanted, instead comes in and kisses my cheek and says he loves me as he passes thru the kitchen. And my husband, who knows all my bad habits and insecurities, and who knows better than anyone that i could stand to loose some poundage, ( he would never tell me that, tho) still wants to snuggle in the chair and 1/2, that somehow has mananged to shrink since we bought it a few years ago! That man is my dream come true, and i cannot believe most of the time he chose me. Our families have changed, some have gone on to heaven, everyone is older, our friends have been added to, some have moved away, and we still love that pastor rogers, and love our pastor eddie so much. Our church has changed too, and great changes are in store. But the one thing that hasn't is that God still is pouring out his best for us.
I started to put sorry this is so long, but i am not really. This blog will allow me to occassionally share my heart, not just my mindless pursuits and gibberish. I AM living the american dream, thanks to my friend for the needed reminder.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
blog? Who has time to blog?
it is saturday night, at 10:35 pm. I am so tired i can hardly stand it. But as I am finding out, blogging waits for no one. I was told by a very experienced blogger that if i would limit myself to everyother day blogging, i would not feel as if i never left the computer. I seem to have taken that advice and added a couple days to it. I was so afraid that i would not be able to stop once i started, but it seems i am having trouble getting started at all!!
My days have been filled with working extra since Nancy is out of town, and doing laundry, laundry and more laundry. Haircuts and band-aids and neosporin rounded out the week, with work again today. So I know this one is boring, and full of needless info, but thats it. i have been too tired or busy to blog. And, I cannot tell you whether it is bothering me that i haven't blogged or not. On one hand, i love the comments, or just feeling a part of the blogging family. On the other hand, i feel pressure to be "on" with the blogs. I mean, look at the other hillens: Hillen who is a pro with the camera, hillenjr who also takes some great pictures, and the one with the definite gift of prose, Skywriting. Pressure Pressure pressure.
So friends you will have to bear with me. I am still new at this, and trying to get the hang of it.
At some point i am sure this will become second nature, and i will find mucho entertaining things to talk about. Until then, i am gonna go sleep, go to church am, and then try to finish the laundry i started on wednesday. No, i am not kidding! Wednesday!
oh, by the way, I have all new children in my monkey class at church. All my kids moved up to Miss Sharon last Sunday, and the new monkeys moved in. I must say, they are a great barrel full so far, and although i miss my other kids something awful, i am positive we have a great year ahead of us! See you all at church!
My days have been filled with working extra since Nancy is out of town, and doing laundry, laundry and more laundry. Haircuts and band-aids and neosporin rounded out the week, with work again today. So I know this one is boring, and full of needless info, but thats it. i have been too tired or busy to blog. And, I cannot tell you whether it is bothering me that i haven't blogged or not. On one hand, i love the comments, or just feeling a part of the blogging family. On the other hand, i feel pressure to be "on" with the blogs. I mean, look at the other hillens: Hillen who is a pro with the camera, hillenjr who also takes some great pictures, and the one with the definite gift of prose, Skywriting. Pressure Pressure pressure.
So friends you will have to bear with me. I am still new at this, and trying to get the hang of it.
At some point i am sure this will become second nature, and i will find mucho entertaining things to talk about. Until then, i am gonna go sleep, go to church am, and then try to finish the laundry i started on wednesday. No, i am not kidding! Wednesday!
oh, by the way, I have all new children in my monkey class at church. All my kids moved up to Miss Sharon last Sunday, and the new monkeys moved in. I must say, they are a great barrel full so far, and although i miss my other kids something awful, i am positive we have a great year ahead of us! See you all at church!
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
okay, i'll blog already!
So, i found out today that i am not alone. I am an admitted pen kleptomaniac, but i am not alone. At Bible study i discovered at least two others like me. We love pens...fine point, any color, no glop pens. And we sometimes borrow them permenantly. Now, I do not steal from stores, or people not related to me, but i love hillens pens, and sometimes sky or barrett will get a great pen. And sorry, but if you lay it down and forget about it, it wants to belong to me. And it should. I will love it and use it all the time.
I also like different pens for different things. Like for Bible study, i love to use a green pen.(although for this one i am using purple, it is all i had, so i need to stay consistent in color)
Maybe because green makes me think of growing, and i so hope to grow through each of these studies. Or maybe because i just love the color green. For anything!
Fine point is the best. Extra fine point is amazing, but sometimes too scratchy. The worst is medium point, it glops all over the place, and you get it all over your hands. And then if you touch your face before the ink is dry, well, you end up with ink on your face. that stinks.
At one time, and i hope to bring this time back really soon, i was the PEN LADY for the demers and jeppsen girls when our families would go out to eat together at the best restaurant in the city, Acambaro. I loved being the one who had the best pens with the most color choices...it somehow completes me. Also, just so you know, i like to be the aunt with gum, just like monica on friends. Anyway, lately, i have been sorely lacking in the pen department. I cannot figure out how i lose pens. Honestly, my family does not get into my purse for them, and the girls were always faithful to return my pens when it was time to go home. but still, i seem to have lost the best pens. So, soon, i will replenish with even better and more fine point, no glop lots o color pens.
Okay, this is getting long, and so i will stop for today. But rest assured, soon i will blog about my love of new crayons...
I also like different pens for different things. Like for Bible study, i love to use a green pen.(although for this one i am using purple, it is all i had, so i need to stay consistent in color)
Maybe because green makes me think of growing, and i so hope to grow through each of these studies. Or maybe because i just love the color green. For anything!
Fine point is the best. Extra fine point is amazing, but sometimes too scratchy. The worst is medium point, it glops all over the place, and you get it all over your hands. And then if you touch your face before the ink is dry, well, you end up with ink on your face. that stinks.
At one time, and i hope to bring this time back really soon, i was the PEN LADY for the demers and jeppsen girls when our families would go out to eat together at the best restaurant in the city, Acambaro. I loved being the one who had the best pens with the most color choices...it somehow completes me. Also, just so you know, i like to be the aunt with gum, just like monica on friends. Anyway, lately, i have been sorely lacking in the pen department. I cannot figure out how i lose pens. Honestly, my family does not get into my purse for them, and the girls were always faithful to return my pens when it was time to go home. but still, i seem to have lost the best pens. So, soon, i will replenish with even better and more fine point, no glop lots o color pens.
Okay, this is getting long, and so i will stop for today. But rest assured, soon i will blog about my love of new crayons...
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