Hillary means hilarious

Thank God my children are happy, upbeat people. They certainly don't get it from me. Hillary is one of the happiest people I have ever known. She usually sees the bright side of life and cracks up over the simplest things (like my facial expressions, my hair, my clothes...). Her name actually means "cheerful". Last night is a perfect illustration of her inner joy, or just her cluelessness as to what's happening around her. It had been a long day for me...I hadn't slept the night before, some stressful stuff had happened at work, and I had spent 2 hours working in my classroom while she was at youth group and still didn't have everything done. By the time she came out of the building, I was so tired I was feeling sick. (FYI I'm also on my period....never good for me or my family). I was grouchy and snapped at Parker and Hillary and then just started crying and couldn't stop. Parker was just sitting there looking at me with big eyes like he'd just been warped into the car from another time and place and had no idea what was happening. Hillary reached up and gave my shoulder a little squeeze. I appologized to the kids and tried to cry a little more softly. All was quiet except for the radio (tuned to the oldies station a la Parker.) I check my rearview mirror and all I can see is Hillary dancing like there's no tomorrow. She's whipping her head around and pumping her arms like Snoopy on the Charlie Brown christmas special. And darned if it didn't make me start to smile.