Hymelick.com becomes Upon Stratford

Well, more news in the "site-has-moved" department, but hymelick.com is now uponstratford.com and is located with its very own domain name. CLICK HERE to visit!

THE BIG MOVE

Okay, so hymelick.blogspot.com has moved. It is now found at hymelick.wordpress.com. In the near future, we will be relocated at hymelick.com, plain and simple, again (I'm still working on that part!) with an awesome new gallery, much like on the original hymelick.com. To access the new site in one shot, CLICK HERE.

All posts from here have been moved over, so everything you could possibly want to read up on from the past is still there. Excess, non-family related posts have been deleted. If you are interested in "The Music Man" Project, it is now on my sewing blog - A Fine Notion (though those videos will remain up here).

This site, however, will remain to exist as an outlet for my constant ramblings about nothing, and my posts about anything and everything that is not important. Perhaps later I'll post my new favorite Saturday Night Live skit, starring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin!

Picture of the Week

Taking advantage of my new water camera pictures, here's me and Kristi in the water in Puerto Rico, looking like we've just swum in from nowhere!

An Update or Two

Yeah, so I've been neglecting things a bit here, but I'm trying to get things together for the launch of the new hymelick.com. I think it'll be worth it. Once that happens, I'll likely be clearing the family information from here and keeping it as a place for my random musings and video showings. All family news will be at the new site, which will hopefully come with a brand new gallery and everything.

In other news, our current gallery has been updated with more pictures from Puerto Rico, taken with an underwater camera Kristi bought and then I had developed the other day - FINALLY. You can view that here.

The New Look for Now

This is the new look as I move the blog to be about my random musings, and move the family website over to it's new home. Bear with it as it will go through many changes until I decide on the final layout and look forward to the new site.

Any name suggestions will be gladly taken into consideration! (Thought it might be fun if they reflect the new template.)

Coming Soon: A Makeover!

The Family Stories and Pictures site is getting a new look, and it's own domain! Keep a lookout here, for I will post when I get us all good and redirected! I am waiting until I am completely done with the renovation before I send people on over to it. The gallery is being updated and the posts are being streamlined to truly be all about the family!

This site WILL be updated in the meantime, AND it will likely continue to be here as the place where I post all my random musings and ramblings about movies and whatnot.

Picture of the Week

At Carol and James' wedding in 1993, Katherine discovered how much she liked dancing.

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

In my first day of work craziness yesterday, I neglected to post birthday greetings for Grandma Ginger! Happy Birthday! (Sheepishly given one day late!)

Quote of the Week

"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken." ~Bill Dodds

It's funny since in my job, I have the exact OPPOSITE reaction to Labor Day. Sure, people "lose" their kids right after Labor Day Weekend, but as the teacher, I GAIN them!

Picture of the Week

Kara refers to this period of her life as her "Whale Baby" days. I'd assume this was sometime in early 1988, as she was born in December of '87.

A Ladies' Tea

In our grand tradition, we had our Ladies' Tea today. The theme was "Go Green" and we all bought "green" gifts. I made a purse out of an old shirt and scraps, so it was "recycled!" A lovely time was had by all.

Lindsay and Katherine, right before we ate the excellent tea sandwiches.
The lovely tea cups.
A table of our gifts.
The bag that I made, and Donna received.

Happy Birthday, Ted!

Today is Ted's 78th birthday! Happy Birthday!


Ted and Grandma at the 2005 Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Happy Birthday, Lindsay!

Today we celebrate Lindsay's 24th birthday! There's a big party later to celebrate so I'm sure tomorrow you can expect a post with lots of pictures!

A baby Lindsay, circa 1985/1986 (depending on if she was 1 or 2 here!).

Lin and Jordan lounge on the chair, 1989.

Lindsay in Montauk, August 2008.

Picture of the Week

Well, since it's after midnight, and since I'm still up, and since I'm helping a friend paint her living room tomorrow and don't know when I'll be home, I'll just post the picture of the week right now!


I've always really enjoyed this picture of me and Lindsay, taken circa 1990 or so! (I actually think it's a bit earlier, perhaps '88.)

A Foray into Web Design

I just finished my first actual website. It's for Grandma and Ted's Bed and Breakfast, The Hitchcock House! Check it out here! I hope it brings them lots of new business!

Cousin Day!

Today Jack "cashed in" on his birthday present - a day with me! We took a trip to Barnes & Noble, where I got him five books and then we headed to Brooklyn Botanic Garden to meet mom for lunch. The day ended after meeting up with Willa again and watching Jack play with one of his other birthday presents - one that baffled us. It seemed to be a foam spray that you used to decorate the sidewalk, but it didn't work quite the way any of us thought it would.

Highlights of the Day:

Jack at the Botanic Garden, trying out his new frog toy.
The butterfly that was landing on all the flowers.
Jack waiting patiently - and excitedly! - while Willa sets up the new toy!
Jack and his new toy.
The strange foam markings.

Recent Movie-Going Adventures

I don't drag myself to the movies for any old thing, so something has to REALLY peak my interest for me to want to see it. I do, however, tend to see more movies in the summer when I have a lot of time. Here are my two most recent, highly recommended movies, both of which I plan to buy on DVD (or ask to receive for Christmas, as I find DVDs to be the easiest gifts):


Mamma Mia, while admittedly corny and perhaps a little tacky, is very enjoyable, particularly if you were a strange child like I was who was REALLY into ABBA! (And you can't beat the scenery!)


Not as good as the first, but Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 did have its charms!

Quote of the Week

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~Erma Bombeck

Coming Soon

I am in the process of creating an Etsy shop! It will be called Pig & Pepper, an homage to Alice in Wonderland (it's the name of a chapter) and in honor of the real shop Lindsay and I hope to open one day - full of handmade goodies and baked goods - of course, the Etsy shop will not include the baked goods! I also recently saw that you can sell photography prints on Etsy which I would love to do! Who knows... maybe this is the place to start.

So anyway, this is going to take a good month or two to really get off the ground, but I hope to work diligently the next couple of months to get some things done! We'll see how it goes!

Picture of the Week

Here's the pic of the week, one day early as I'll be upstate for the next couple of days seeing Othello and All's Well That Ends Well with Grandma!


Here's me, Lin and dad on the hiking trail in Montauk.