Amy J. Bennett

Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life

A Blur

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Today was a blur.  I had a hard time getting up this morning.  Lexi woke me up.  I think she may have slid out of Emma’s bed last night (they requested to sleep together last night..and tonight, in fact).  Then the storms were so bad, I couldn’t go back to sleep and then it seemed like I was up every hour. 

I worked consistently this morning and then after lunch we went to Mom’s house while our carpet got cleaned.  The rest of the evening was spent at church.  This week is VBS. 

Both girls are in the 3-5 class.  Lexi was NOT having it at first but apparently found someone to latch onto and then was fine.  It killed me to walk by and see that scared/confused/someone help me look on her face and not go sit in the class with her the whole time.  I’m not teaching this year.  I’m the technical director whatever that means.  Tonight all I did was hunt around for a DVD player and RCA jacks and then took pictures all night. 

The good news is the girls were wiped out by the time we did that, went to the bank, post office and grocery store after that and came home.  They ate a doughnut, put their jammies on and were asleep within 5 mintues, literally.  So here I am.  Scott is at work, I’m on my computer listening to Kelly Clarkson’s new CD and there is absolutely no furniture in the living room.

Make a List

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Not sure what year this is..some time in middle school.

Favorite color – purple

Season – summer

Actor – Tom Hanks, Patrick Swayze

Actress – Julia Roberts

Song – “Baby, Baby” by Amy Grant

Clothes – Jeans and an oversized t-shirt

Subject – math

Car – Corvette

Hobby – talking on the telephone

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Funny how some of that is still true…check out my About page for a lot of my favorites.

June 23, 1993

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I ended up finding a post for yesterday and can’t find one for today so I’m posting this one.

Well, I have nowhere else to put what I’m  feeling except here.  I went to church on Sunday and sat with G both am and pm.  Monday we had bible study and a service thign about cults.  I sat with him.  Monday afterwards he asked me to go with him to the movies on Tuesday.  I was in heaven.  Monday when I got home I prayed for a dream to let me know if I was supposed to be with him or not.  I had a dream we were going out.  He called me Tuesday letting me know a friend had come into town that had moved and he was going to do something with him.  I was cool with it because I kenw I was going to go to the service that night and I could see him there.  I called N up to see if I could get a ride to the church and she was getting tires put on her car.  I got I guess you could say depressed and lied down and went to sleep for 2 hours.  I got up, ate, and went back to sleep.  I had a dream that I was with G and a couple other people and we went to go talk to someone and he just left me.  I got upset because I didn’t know why he left.  When I woke up I became upset or depressed or something.  I think I felt the dream showed or was trying to tell me that he didn’t really care about me.  All morning I’ve been depressed because I felt like when I go to church tonight he’s just going to act like he doesn’t like me and ignore me like he did the first couple of days of camp.  Now I don’t know how I feel. I keep trying to think about God and how he loves me but sometimes I think I need or I guess want someone to love me.  I know I have family and friends but I finally thought I met someone who was perfect for me.  He’s funny, kind a cute, a Christian.  It just all fits and I guess when I thought about him not liking me it hurt.  I didn’t know I liked him that much, but I guess I do.  I’m just praying he feels the same way about me.  It would be good to finally have somebody I could really like because the way they were and not because they liked me first.  That’s another thing I’m worried about.  What if he just likes me because I like him?  I don’t know.  I just need to know what he’s thinking.  I’m sort of getting tired of liking someone for nothing.  It’s sort of like when you  like a car so much and you want it so bad, but you know there’s no way you could ever have it.  [uh, yeah, like that].  I don’t want to waste my summer liking him when he’s not going to like me.  Of course, at least 3 people have told me they thought he liked me, but they don’t know what he’s thinking or feeling.  I guess he can’t hate me because he wouldn’t have asked me out if he did.  Another thing that bothers me is HF.  Monday night she was flirting all over him.  I had to tell myself that I can’t hate her.  When S like him, she would always get so upset when she would flirt with him and I never understood why she made such a big deal about it.  Now I see exactly why she got upset.  I guess it’s just insecurity.  Thinking that if she does that, he’ll start liking her.  But then again, I sort of have a right to be insecure about this whole thing.  I mean he hasn’t exactly told me he likes me.  Ughhh!  This is too stressful!

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*rolling eyes*  What was that all about?  Geesh, I think if anything, I wasted way too much worrying about all of it.  I believe we did end up going out to the movies. I remember my mom driving me up to Charlotte to his house.  Maybe we’ll get the details in a future post lol.

Busy day

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So today’s day was a little more predictable than last Saturday.  I did end up cleaning the house.  However, I forgot I had to work today and worked from 12-1.  The girls came home soon after that and I wasn’t quite done cleaning.  I did get the last few things done while MIL stayed and helped get the girls fed.  I was extremely hot by the end of cleaning and the girls were eating on the back porch and it was so hot, I just told everyone to get their suits on and we were going swimming.   Well, MIL had just bought them new suits so they were wanting to go but I had planned on waiting until Scott got back from helping C&D move but it was just too hot.  It happened that Scott pulled up right after I said that.  So we all got in the pool.  S was scared to death.  But finally after having a floatie swimsuit, armband swimmies AND a ring, she realized she was ok and then didn’t want to get out.  Let me tell you, unless the girl turned completely upside down, there was no way on earth she was going to drown.

Scott signed up to work extra hours directing traffic from the baseball game so he left not too long after we got out of the pool.  Me and the girls stopped and got some take out and went to Mom’s house.  I helped a little sorting Mom’s shoes and such.  It’s such a gigantic mess there, you kind of go in circles wondering where in the world to start.

Scott ended up taking a break after everyone got in the game and he met us at Bruester’s for ice cream.  We left from there and went home. The girls watched a little bit of Aladdin and have requested to sleep together in Emma’s bed.  They both got out of bed and came in the living room and I took them back to bed.  I told them if they got out of bed, I’d have to put Lexi in her own room.  Last I heard walking out of Emma’s room was Emma saying, Come on, Lexi, let’s go to sleep.  I haven’t heard a peep since I came back in here and I’m sure they’re both out.  MIL said last night after we dropped them off at 7 when Lexi was asleep, she didn’t wake up until 9 this morning.  I think that might be a record and I don’t understand why she can’t be a sleepyhead like that when she’s at home!

April 2, 1992

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Still in a dry spell of no vintage posts for today, so here is another essay.  This one is from 8th grade I think.

My Dream Vacation

The beauty of the mountains became clearer as I came closer to the lake.  The air was fresh and clean with a hint of pine in it.  It wa swonderful being away from school and parents, and being in the mountains.  Just the sound of the eagle game me chils.  I saw the birds flying gracefully through the air as I sat by the lake.  When I touched the small deer that had come to me, the eagle cried out again and the deer ran away.  Sundown had approached and it was a beautiful sight.  I began a fire beside me so I could stay out a little longer.  The sun continued to slowly creep down.  The crackling of the fire got louder and it sounded like music to my ears.  My cabin awaited me for the last time as my dream vacation ended.  I put out my fire and slowly walked toward my cabin, looking at the beautiful sight one more time, smelling the pine trees, feeling comfort for the last time.  I stood in the doorway of my cabin hearing the eagle cry one more time before I packed it all up and went back to reality.

Lexi’s new bed

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Lexi has now officially moved to her toddler bed.  The first night she was asleep when she came home and then she came out of her room about 1:30, walked to the kitchen looking for me and I picked her and she told me It’s scary.  I said, it’s not scary.  And then put her back in bed until she stayed until about 8am when she walked to the living room and then bedroom looking for me.

Thursday night I put her down in her bed and closed the door on the way out like normal.  About 5 minutes past if that and she walked out.   I just said, No, Lexi, you have to stay in your bed and put her back in bed put her covers on and closed the door on the way out again.  And she stayed in there the whole night, once again coming out around 8 the next morning looking for me.  The really good news is that really annoying, really loud noise her bedroom door makes when you open it has been a blessing in disguise because now I know exactly when she comes out of her room so I know before she can go traipsing around the house without supervision.

So, yay, no more cribs in the house.  Well, actually that’s a little sad.  No more babies.  Nah, who I am kidding, that’s a good thing.

Glad it’s the weekend

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ajb06222007s.jpgSo yesterday after work I went and got a hair cut at a new place.  It’s literally half the cost of the stylist that I’ve had since I chopped my hair off a couple years ago.  And this one is about 5 minutes from the house instead of 25.  And I’m pretty pleased with it.  I have no idea if I can style it myself or if it will ever look like that again but at least I walked out happy.

After that we went to Target and then took the girls to his mom’s.  We came home and watched Freedom Writer’s.  That was a GREAT movie.  I even cried during it which happens rarely.  It’s a typical determined teacher saves the ghetto classroom but it’s based on a real classroom back in the 90s.  Definitely worth adding to your to-see movie list.

This morning I woke up a little after 9 and headed straight to spinning class.  Now I really need to clean the house and I’m going to force myself to but I could easily go back to bed with no one here.  Scott is off helping D&C move into his grandmother’s house and the girls should be with MIL until at least lunch, maybe late afternoon.

So I guess I should be off to do that…