The Hills

Jack P Hill

I signed Jack up for baseball today.  It’s was $100,  talk about some serious cash!!  I signed up Nolan and Lucas a few weeks ago and it was only $40 so I thought it was going to be about the same price.  Well I was WRONG!!  What was I going to do, tell Jack that Nolan and Lucas could play but he could not.  It has been him begging me for the past 2 years to have me sign him up and we haven’t.  There was no way I was going to do that to my child.

Sometimes I feel like he’s my one child that gets lost in the crowd. Sometime he and I don’t see eye to eye things and I can get frustrated with him easier than the others. He also gets frustrated with me,I don’t know why though    I think it has a lot to do with our personalities being so different.

The other day he woke up for school and said he had a big headache so I sent him back to bed.  He wander upstairs around 10am feeling better. I asked him if he wanted me to take him to school and he just looked at me. I think he was afraid to say NO because he thought I would get angry with him.  For those few seconds, we just looked at each other.  I had a strong feeling to let him stay home and spend time with me so I look at him and I told him he didn’t have too.

I called my mother, who was going to pick up Brooklyn from school, and asked her if she wanted to meet me at McDonald’s.  Jack was so excited to go for lunch.  After McDonald’s, he got the book “Percy Jackson’s and the Olympians, book #1 Lightening Thief”.  He has been dying to read this book for a long time.  He already has book #2 from Aunt Tamara and we bought him book #3.  He couldn’t read the other 2 books until he read the first.  Long story short, he was super excited to get #1 and started reading it on the way home.  I think he’s already halfway through it.  The movie comes out in a few weeks and Aunt Tamara promised that she would take him to the movie (along with the other cousins) if they finished the book.  He was getting nervous that the movie day would come before he even read the book.

I don’t regret keeping him home for the day even if that meant I didn’t get anything done, my house was trashed, and I spent a few dollars on lunch.  It was worth every penny being able to spend time with my oldest son who seems to get lost in the crowd. Jack’s a great kid and I love him for everything he is and will be, even if he pushes my buttons from time to time.  He keeps me from having low blood pressure and that’s a good thing. No wait, that’s a great thing!

I love you , Jack!