BEHINDER I GET

So I pose these questions for your consideration. Does time speed up? Does time stand still? Where has the time gone? Is there no time like the present? Does time travel? Our time is not the Lord's time.
Time keeps on SLIPPIN....Slippin....slippin into the future~ It seems as life progresses and we age that time is not always our friend. I have to ask myself, when did I have time to work? It truly seems like the faster I go the behinder I get! All about me;it seems, is more things I need and should do. I remember endless days of summer laying on the grass watching the tall trees blow in the wind. Hikes up to 76 Rock with Heidi and singing "Born Free". Riding my bike and spending literally all day at the pool until I had to go home just because I was starving. Carrying empty milk bottles to the dairy to get whole milk and pick up a penny piece or two to munch on the way home. Raising 22 ducks in my back yard that started with two that I won from the 4th of July celebration on Main Street from pitching dimes into a dish. Going to the Drive-In movie, lemonade sales in my front yard and neighborhood plays and pageants in our back yard. Irrigating the garden in the middle of the night with Daddy and catching night crawlers with Mom with a flash light so we could go fishing. Eating watercress on our sandwiches that we picked out of a little stream, and picking pine cones for pine nuts and choke cherries and elderberries to make syrup for pancakes. Cutting wood and hauling it home for the winter, kick-the-can and night games, trips to Big Rock Candy Mountain, getting to sit in the announcers booth with Daddy at all the Rodeos and Demolition Derbies. 4th of July parades and fireworks at the park, Rotary dinners with Mom and Dad cause I was the youngest. Waiting in line to sit on Santa's lap and getting a brown paper bag full of peanuts, popcorn, gumdrops, spiced ribbon candy, and chocolate covered nougats that I loved to eat along with the peanuts. Working at the radio station, collecting bottles to turn in for pennies, raising sheep; even in our basement and waking up to cute little pink noses and wiggly tails in fresh straw as they anticipated the sprite bottle full of warm formula I got to feed them. Swinging from the giant tree in my back yard and playing for hours on a big blue oil barrel standing on it and rolling it up and down the lawn. Learning to ride a unicycle along Gentry's fence and riding it all over town. Dragging Main Street and knocking on the Dairy window to set off the alarm.

Good Times.....Precious Times.....Times I hope my kids experience.

Time is Precious!

How do I use my time now? There seems to be a shortage of it to do all that I want and desire, along with all that everyone else wants. Seems at times my time is running on someone elses clock!

Gotta make the most of the time we have!

Tick....Tock...tick...tock..tick.tock~~~~~~tickety-tock

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December!

Ahhh December! Here it is again! It doesn't feel much like December cause the sun has been shining all week and we have no Christmas snow except for a smattering on the mountain tops that look like Mrs. Clause took a ride in the sleigh and sprinkled powdered sugar on them. I do however have cold ankles. The temperature has dropped and it was in the 30's today and I had to have a simmering cup of vanilla hazelnut tea to warm my bones and I put a lap blanket on while I worked at my computer, but I felt like I should have a walker with tennis balls to go with it. I did get one tree decorated upstairs with the help of the kiddles for family night, now Sonny wants to sneakily pull the decorations off and chew on them! You naughty doggy....now you shall have no pie!!!
I like to play. I don't think we should never stop playing. I want to call all my friends and ask them if they can play! I guess I am and forever will be a kid at heart. This time of year I want to knit scarves, make ginger bread houses with my kids, go to Christmas concerts, sing the Messiah, drive around to look at house lights, go to Christmas boutiques, and make Finnish Pulla, which by the way two little angels came to my door and brought me a plate full! Voi Etta!!! That was heaven on earth and we even chatted in Finnish.
I have cinnamon pine cones in a basket in my front room and yummy pine scents that make my house smell all Christmasy, and our collection of Christmas books. I buy one every year and read it on Christmas Eve. Each one of us also gets to open an ornament to put on the tree downstairs that represents something significant for the year, and when my children grow up and leave me...they get to take their ornaments with them to have for their very own little home.
It's simply magical! I don't care how old you are! I love it and I love sharing it with all it's traditions with my family and friends! I even love to just go to the mall and walk around to feel all the hustle and bustle of shoppers shopping for people they love, and see kids on Santa's lap. I love presents under the tree...not for me, but things I made or found just specially for my friends and family.
I loved it when I asked Hannah what she wanted for Christmas and she said "nothing...I don't need anything. I would rather give it to some other little girl who doesn't have anything." There are so many things I love about it I can't even mention them all. The greatest thing about Christmas is Christ. The greatest gift of all!!!!!!!!!
Merry CHRISTmas!!!!!

School days, school days!! I'm not even IN school, but I love the first days of school. New clothes that are too hot to wear this soon because ALL mothers buy "fall/winter" clothes so we don't have to go shopping every other week. New packages of undershirts and panties, new pencils, unused pink erasers, fresh reams of paper, cool colored pencils and scented markers. Spiral notebooks, and three ring binders and lockers with combos that won't work. Sweaty gym clothes that only get washed once a month, black marks on the newly polished hall floors, school lunch aroma in the early mornings, daily waits for the bus, gradually colder and darker mornings, sleepy heads trying to adjust to the early mornings to pick out the perfect outfit and do your hair and actually eat breakfast. The motivation to get up at 5:30 wanes quickly. Eagerness to do homework for the first week diminishes, and parents begin asking the questions....do you have homework tonight?....are you finished with your homework?....get to bed....did you hand your assignment in?....your science fair project is due tomorrow?

Late night trips to an all night store for poster board, bug collecting, pant hemming, class changes, comparing schedules with friends, assigned seating, late excuses, sack lunches, field trips, parent teacher conferences.

A college junior, a high school senior and and 8th grader. Ahh.... school days!! School craze!! School phase!! Mother prays!!!

Hysterectomy! EWWW!

OK! I admit I am grateful that I could use them while they were useful and I needed them, but really couldn't they have installed an eject button when we were done with all those female parts? Since no one installed a handy little device like that, we have to resort to more extreme measures! Like cutting the whole blasted thing out.... did I say cutting?? I don't want to be cut, at least not on my belly! I will however allow them to do the little incisions to blow my belly up the size of a 9 month pregnant woman so they can see all around the town inside of me. Make sure everything is where it's supposed to be and remove all the other things that are causing grief and pain. If all goes well, the large cyst that is attached to myself can be freed up and pulled out with the scope routine....I am counting on that! I already put my order in! Now, once that is done they will then attempt to remove the rest of my female parts out the only other place they can! Yep, you guessed it! YOUCH! Suddenly birthing my three children flashed before my eyes! I was thinking I could make Christmas tree ornaments or jewelry with these heaven sent items or maybe sell them on eBay or donate them to science or something! But seriously now. Couldn't they just dry up and blow away when we are done with them?? Not to mention the enjoyable side effects that come from SURGICAL MENOPAUSE! ! ! You suddenly begin to reflect on life when you get ready to go in for surgery, and I suppose, death....esp. when you register at the hospital and they ask you if you have a living will! A LIVING WILL? Of Course I have a WILL!! My "WILL" is to survive this thing and not feel like a neutered cat with hot flashes when I am done! Now, if the afore mentioned procedure doesn't work, then they will have to cut me open like a fillet-o- fish and do the full abdominal routine. This will of course extend my hospital "vacation" and my recovery time with a lovely zipper to boot! I am opting out on this one! However! IF such event does happen to take place I am going to offer the doc (under the surgical table) free haircuts for life if he can do a little tuck and roll action. I mean how hard can it be?? Bring in the vacuum! I don't care! Just just give me a little payoff for bearing three children! I know, I know, it isn't possible! Ah well. Sigh.

Now lets address the hospital food. For some reason people seem to think that after your whole insides have been rearranged and vacated, that eating spaghetti or some other hospital cuisine is going to make it's way out after they have paralyzed your bowels with narcotics! I don't think so! Besides that fun little catch all bag that is hanging aside your bed for all your visitors to see is fun to carry down the hall with you as they make you walk when you are stoned outta your mind and sporting air conditioned hospital attire, along with bed hair! How about the stickiest tape on the planet for your IV's that remove the entire epidural layer of yourself and leave lasting scars! Couldn't they hire the sticky note dude to come up with something?? Let's talk about the blood pressure cuff that goes off at will, wakes you up just about the time you get to sleep and dashes any hope of blood finding it's way back into your fingers. The other love are the noisy food carts that come delightfully clunking down the hall at SIX a.m.! I think the nurses wake you up early just to get revenge for the long graveyard shift they had to endure. I also hate those little booties that have that gripper tape on the bottom! They give me the dries and I think they paint those with house stucco! They are not user friendly.

I don't know...maybe they would let me go to the pediatric floor where they have puzzles and Nintendo, and a movie library and treats and snacks and fun loving nurses who spoil you and treat you like a big kid. No such luck! So kindly pray for me and everyone else who will be picking on me on July 7th. Thanks!!

Guess I will put this here too!

25 Random things about me, and some other stuff!
1. I have been tagged in a million of these and somehow feel pressure to do this...strange. And I'm wondering who really wants to take the time to read this stuff anyway? Ah well....here goes.
2.I have to have my bed sheets perfect when I get in bed. Bottom tucked in, sheet folded over the top of the blankets and even weight distribution on top of me is of most importance.
3.I rode a hot air balloon all over Utah valley. Breathtaking!
4.I love to do crossword puzzles
5.I love to roller blade up Provo Canyon
6.I love to laugh and I love to tickle my kids. It freaks them when I become the raging bull tickle Mom by putting both hands on my head, index finger extended and twirling, head down and go in for the tickle attack!!!
7.I miss my Daddy! He has been gone almost 17 years now.
8.I love to go anywhere with my family, boating at Powell, fishing, Hawaii! We have such a great time together.
9. I used to write to companies when I was little and tell them how much I liked their products so I could get mail, and see how much free stuff they would send me.
10. I used to play in the ditch across the street from my house and curl dandelion stems in the water. I raised 20 ducks that were in my back yard that ate all our neighbors tomatoes. We also had orphaned baby lambs in our basement in a bed of straw. I loved feeding them with a pop bottle and waking up to their little baaaa's and seeing their pink noses and letting them suck on my finger.
11. I can still ride a unicycle to this day. I might break something, but hey! I can still do it!
12. I was a missionary in Finland.
13.I love to work on movies and commercials. It is so fun and amazing to see it all come together after shooting, post production etc. You've gotta see "Single's Second Ward" if you haven't already. I played Kirby Haybourne's Mom! total blast!
14. By the time I was 21 I had been to 21 countries! I'm getting behind now! Time to get on my horse.
15.I used to sit out in our parked car for hours pretending like I was on a road trip and talk to people on the CB radio.
16. I am an ambulance chaser. I get it from my childhood. We owned the radio station and I would get to go in the car with the lights on top flashing so my Dad could report the story. I also love to see if I can help anyone.
17. I love the medical field. Would love to do surgery, EMT, ER stuff....probably couldn't handle the stress, but it totally interests me.
18.I love to go to movies and I absolutely have to have popcorn, and I love it with frozen Jr. Mints.
19.I can whistle 2 tones at once with my tongue.
20. I have been a hairdresser/makeup artist for years. Started when I was 15, opened my first salon when I was 17.
21.I love to sing and have performed all over the place, television and radio. Now is scares the pants off me to perform because I don't do it enough any more.
22.I was Miss Sevier County
23.I have a shoe fetish and I love handbags too.
24. Things I HATE: wood ticks, that they don't put the page number on all the pages in magazines, mating socks, not being able to find things, esp. when they are late....church shoes, videos, library books, homework etc., root canals and any bodily malfunctions that make me feel cruddy, the recession, parsnips, liver, rude/grumpy people.
25.Things I LOVE: My family, cards/letters, chocolate, mountains, pancakes, sushi, manicures/pedicures/massag

es, candle light baths, great music, flowers, gardening, sitting on my porch and listening to crickets and looking at the stars, Christmas and every holiday, people watching, puppies and esp. our dog Sonny who can polka, dance, shake and now play dead upon command, going out to dinner, hugs, having fun at ANYTHING, being with people I love, laughing til I cry, sports...watching and playing, good books.