Dena Miller’s Blog

We got back from Gulf Shores on Saturday, June 13th. We had the BEST time. Although it got expensive with four kids…we had a ball. We went out to eat several times, my mom kept all four kids while Eddie and I went out. We went to Lulu’s, which was REALLY good. On Thursday we took the kids to the Waterville Water Park. Eddie and I had just as much fun as they did.

It’s Tuesday and I must say that it feel REALLY, REALLY weird not getting up and going to work. I’m praying my unemployment is approved so that I’m not hard pressed to find a job. I gotta have some kind of income coming in though. Here’s some pictures from our vacation:

Just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY EASTER! The kids and I dyed Easter eggs tonight…WHAT A MESS!!  Tomorrow we are going to my mom’s for a Easter Egg hunt and Bar-B-Q. Sunday we are going to church with the Miller side of our family and then going to Granny & Papa’s for lunch. SO…it’s a busy weekend for us. I’ll post pictures of the weekend later.

Hope everyone has a great Easter!

Well, this weekend could’ve been ALOT better! Not that it was horrible or anything…it just could’ve been better. Friday night Terra started running a fever and she kept the fever all day Saturday. It wasn’t real high or anything…just kept her on the couch feeling horrible all day. I cleaned house and pretty much stayed in my PJ’s all day. Grey and Eddie went for like a three hour walk, so that was nice…allowed me to get the house done. Sunday Terra and I tried a new church in Marion. Marion United Methodist Church…I have to say…I wasn’t crazy about it. I think I’ve decided that if Eddie isn’t going to participate in church anymore that I’d rather drive the 45 minutes to Atoka to go to the church I love…so I may just start back there next week. I miss it and I know Terra does. It’s hard to find a GOOD church home…and what’s a 45 minute drive every Sunday really? Plus…I can see my mom. So that has alot of advantages to it as well a disadvantages.

So…that was my boring weekend in a nutshell. Terra is feeling better today and at school, so that’s a good thing.

Oh…I also start full-time in my new position at work today…YAY!

We had the BEST time in Hot Springs Village this past weekend. We didn’t get there until Friday night around 8, so we didn’t do much once we got there. Sunday we got up and the toilets got stopped up in the house we were renting. Eddie went to the store to get a plunger and when he started plunging…the septic tank started backing up in the showers. It was pretty gross. So needless to say we requested another house. The second one we got was MUCH nicer than the first. It had two stories and a deck with a view of the lake…awesome. After we solved that little problem we went to eat at Isabella golf course…YUM! After that we drove around and looked at some property for sale and then went into Hot Springs for the horse races. It was my first time at the horse race and we had a lot of fun. Didn’t win anything, but it was 4 hours of good entertainment. Afterwards we went to dinner…and I can’t remember the name of the place but it was great. Sunday we got up and didn’t really know what the weather was going to do because it was really cloudy, but we decided to take our chances on golfing anyhow.  So all four of us went to eat again at Isabella’s and then the other three people with me played golf. I just rode in the cart, but it turned out to be a really nice day and the golfing was great. Afterwards we ate lunch at the Grenada golf course and then headed home. Needless to say by the time we got home, unloaded, and took showers we were exhausted so it was a short night.

Had a GREAT weekend though. Thanks Otto and RaeAnn for letting us tag along!

Well, Friday night we didn’t do much of anything. Saturday I was lazy all day and sat around and watched one movie after another on HBO…pretty pathetic. Then we started getting dressed to go to our friends house Rebecka and Jason in Hernando, MS around 3. I haven’t seen her in like FOREVER and she just had her second child on December 10th and I hadn’t seen Ryleigh (the baby) or Jase (her 2 year old) since Ryleigh was born, so I was really looking forward to going over there, cooking out and hanging with them. We had ALOT of fun. It was so nice to be around our friends again….it REALLY has been awhile with me and Eddie having been separated and everything. Bec made these awesome fajitas for appetizers and Jason cooked drunk chicken on the grill with some veggies. SO GOOD! I started getting a stupid headache around 9ish, so we ended up leaving there around 11 I think. For those of you who know me….you know this was a LATE night for me!

Sunday I STILL had the headache only it was worse, so I didn’t feel like going to church. I have to say that I am SO proud of my husband because even though I wasn’t going he did go to church with Granny & Papa in West Memphis!  Awesome!!! When he got home I was feeling somewhat better so we went to Hooters for hot wings and fried dill pickles…YUMMY!  Then we started what turned out to be a man hunt for a new 50″ Plasma TV on sale. After arguing with a manager and some people in West Memphis, calling several stores to see if they had it in stock…we finally found one at Walmart in COLLIERVILLE! I tell you….we were ALL over Memphis Sunday. But we finally got it home and put up in the living room. I’m not even an electronics person, but even I have to say it’s pretty awesome!

And…here I am at my boring pathetic job again….but I thank God I have a boring pathetic job to go to! Have a good week all!

Oh my goodness….this weekend I RAN, and RAN, and RAN. I don’t even feel like I’ve had a weekend really.  Friday night after I got off work I went home and reorganized my living room furniture (still not sure if I like it) watched a few episodes of The Office (I LOVE that show!) and then went to bed. Saturday I got up at 7:30…ugghhh, but for some reason I can’t sleep past 7:30 anymore on the weekend. Is that a sign of old age or what? In another year I’ll be going to bed at 7:00 and getting up at 5:00…I’m positive that’s a sign of old age.  Anyhow I got up and drank my coffee, then got on the computer for about 30 minutes before the kids woke up.  My daughter’s birthday was December 30th…she turned 15….FIFTEEN…right? Anyhow, she was in Atlanta with her dad for her birthday and when she got back we were in the middle of moving back to AR, so I told her we’d do her birthday sometime in January. Well, we picked Saturday to do it….the LAST day in January.  So…we picked up Terra’s friend Emily and met my mom at Red Lobster. Oh my gosh was is GOOD!!! We left there and went to a Nail Salon and Terra got a pedicure and all three of us got a manicure.  Afterwards we had some time to spare and went to Shoe Carnival where Terra and Mom bought some shoes. Then it was on to see Bride Wars. It was a cute movie, but I thought it’d be funnier. When the movie was over we parted ways with mom and went home.

Sunday we got up and went to church. We stayed for Sunday School which was the first time we’ve done this, and I really enjoyed it, so we’ll be staying for that from now on. Afterwards we got our pictures taken as a family…we have NEVER had a family picture taken….isn’t that odd? So needless to say I am estatic we were finally able to!!  This lady at our church who’s doing a book on Mother’s and Daughter’s wanted to take Mom, mine and Terra’s picture for the book, and I asked her if she’d mind taking some family pictures since we were all there and she was doing Mom’s, mine and Terra’s. I can’t WAIT to see how the pictures turn out! After the pictures we went to eat at Excline’s Pizza with mom and then we took Emm home and went home ourselves. I got home and Eddie and Grey were straightening out the garage!!  I can park my car in there now….wasn’t that sweet? After I got undressed I ended up going back to Memphis to pick up some Hot Wings at Hooters….they’re the best!

We watched the Super Bowl at home …we were supposed to go to a party, but I was so exhausted I really didn’t want to go anywhere. I was SO excited when the Cardinals took the lead in the 4th quarter, and then the Steelers had to come back…..uggghhhh! It was a really good game though.

So…here I am…back at work today….no need to say more on that subject!

This past weekend was really good. Not for any particular reason or because we did anything spectacular. It’s just that for what seems like FOREVER, we have been busy doing stuff and running places and haven’t had time to just stop and relax. Friday night, Eddie, Terra, Grey and myself all went to Maci Dean’s birthday party at Incredible Pizza. We had the best time! We rode this simulation 4D roller coaster like 4 times with our relatives….SO much fun. Honestly, you’d have thought me and my sister in laws and niece were on a real roller coaster with us screaming and stuff…our husbands were making fun of us because after all…it is just a chair that moves and a big TV screen…..but it was real to us!   We got there at 6:00 and didn’t leave until around 9:45, so that tells you how much we enjoyed it!

Saturday after Eddie went for his morning run and showered, he got back into his PJ’s (I was still in mine) and we just lounged around doing nothing all day waiting on Comcast to come install high speed interent, a phone, and cable. That was a huge ordeal and we still don’t have our phone hooked up. Anyhow…around 5:30 Eddie decides he wants to go out, so we took showers and got ready and went to eat at Memphis Pizza Cafe and then went to see the movie Gran Torino. AWESOME movie. Very politically incorrect, but a good movie nonetheless.

Sunday we went to church and afterwards we went to eat lunch at Ryan’s Steakhouse with my mom. Then it was back home again to lounge around. We completed the 2nd Season of The Office. Which by the way is a hilarious show for those of you who don’t watch it.  So good that I made Eddie go get Season 3 from Blockbuster because I HAD to see the first episode of Season Three!

Today I’m kinda feeling guilty because I wasn’t productive AT ALL this weekend, and my house is still SO unorganized and messy, but sometimes you just need a break and I certainly needed that this past weekend. I’ll catch up with everything I didn’t do this past weekend….next weekend.  That’s the goal anyhow!

I don’t know when I can say that I’m “officially” a non-smoker. But I’ve gone 7 days without a cigarette!!!  WHOOOOOO  HOOOOOOOO!!!

The weekend went as I expected it to for the most part. We spent all day Saturday morning moving my stuff to AR and getting most of the stuff organized…still have ALOT to do though. We got Terra’s room set up, so she’s all set, and that was the main thing for me to get done this weekend. Saturday afternoon we went to pick up a 52″ TV that Eddie was buying from a friend. We got it loaded into the truck and got it home, drove from Cordova to Marion with it. We’d covered it up with a blanket and strapped it down and everything for the ride, so when we got it in the house and took the blanket off, you can imagine our surprise when the screen is shattered. Yeap…SHATTERED! I guess the blanket broke it. The wind was horrible coming over the bridge Saturday night and the blanket was flapping pretty bad, so that must’ve been it. Needless to say Eddie wasn’t too happy about it, and I really felt bad for him because he was SO looking forward to being able to enjoy watching TV in the living room again. Now we have to load it BACK into the truck this afternoon so he can take it to a repair shop and find out how much it’s gonna cost to get that repaired.

Sunday I got baptized!!! It was awesome, I feel great! I would have pictures to show IF I’d have charged my camera battery. I’m SO sick over the fact that I don’t have even ONE picture of it!  Since I’ve moved out to AR now Eddie and I had talked about us finding a church closer to home. I really didn’t want to give up my church home in Atoka. I LOVE the pastor there and I like the church, but geographically speaking it wasn’t going to work for us making that drive every Sunday. HOWEVER…Sunday after service, Eddie told me that he wasn’t ready to find another church, that he wants to continue going there because he’s closer than he’s been in a long time to believing again, and he just doesn’t want to move right now. SO….I’m really excited that we are  going to keep going to that church for a bit longer.

Eddie tells me I’m doing really good on smoking. I took three puffs off a cigarette Sunday and that was it! Eddie’s encouragement has helped me alot. Last night before I went to sleep he told me that he was proud of me for how well I was doing…that made me feel good. I will admit that I had every intention of stopping and buying a pack of cigarettes this morning on the way to work when I opened my eyes this morning. But when I walked into the kitchen there was a note there from Eddie that said “I made you coffee, I love you. Don’t stop and get cigarettes on the way to work”.  It was sweet because he knew I probably would since he’s been where I’m at now with trying to quit.  Anyhow on the way to work I keep telling myself that I’d buy a pack at the next store, and I’d get to that store, and then I’d say, no…I can make it to the next store”. Anyhow I got all the way to work today like that and never stopped at the store. SO…since I’m at work now I’ll be okay.  That is….until I have to do the same thing on the way home!

On another note…everyone probably already knows this…I’m a momma’s girl.  So…since I’ve moved to AR….I miss my mom!  ALOT!!!  I know…I”m 37, but I don’t care….fact is…I miss my mom. I hate that she’s SO far away from me and I’m gonna hate not seeing her everyday. Eddie laughed at me because I told him I missed her the other night. He always comments that he’s never seen someone adore their mother as much as Terra does me.  Well, after I told him I missed my mom…he says Terra doesn’t have a chance at all!  Not only am I gonna miss her and talking to her.  She really spoiled me because she would cook and do my laundry! I HATE laundry and I really haven’t had to do laundry in 5 months, so not only am I gonna miss just being with her….I gonna miss all the things she did for me because…she spoiled me even more (if that were possible). I seriously love that woman to death!