Chugging along...

It has been a crazy week with taxi service for the kids. Then last night at practice the lightning sirens went off so the kids had to get off the field. That ended practice #1 early so we headed to practice #2. My intention was to pick Hunter up at practice #2 and take him to practice #3. Well, when we got there he was nowhere to be found. Apparently the rain cancelled that practice early as well so he was headed back home with my neighbor. It seemed to scramble the entire evening and has now bogged down Sunday as the practices were moved to then.

They are both loving it so it makes it worthwhile. We have gotten the schedules for soccer for both teams but I am waiting for the baseball schedules to post them all at once. We have a few conflicts between the boys soccer games where we will have to split up so I am hoping that the baseball schedule fits in nicely. We'll see...

Got Some Momentum

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel... I am more than 75% done with my purse order and I feel like I have that last little bit of adrenaline that is needed to finish the race. I am very excited about loading them into the car and delivering them.

The kids schedule gets crazier by the minute but they seem to be loving every second of it. We have something every night of the week but Friday right now... I may have spoken too soon. It seems like a daunting task to plan a week that is this cluttered with activities but I have to remind myself that this was the benefit to homeschooling. They can be done with their work, have some playtime and do all the activities they want to fill the rest of the time. We are now waiting on schedules to see what kind of conflicts we are looking at there. Hopefully not many.

I am enjoying seeing the boys embrace something new with charisma and energy that is sometimes lost on something they are already good at. They seem challenged and eager to give 100% and I love that. In the future I want them to be successful (in whatever definition that holds for them) and I think this is really teaching life lessons for the future. I love to see them rise above and get past the fact that they are not the best and work their tail off getting there... REFRESHING!

Here we go...

We had a nice trip out of town but it was good to be home... and of course, we brought a lot of work back with us. The kids are sad summer is ending but happy that this week will include lots of back to homeschool parties.

We have had a busy week with work, purses (deadline quickly approaching) and company. Brian had two friends spend the weekend with us and they played xbox and poker and had a good time. They brought a dog with them that Brian said the boys could keep. His name is Harry... because he doesn't have any... He is a very good dog and the boys just love him to death!

The boys found out their baseball teams. Hunter will be on the Cardinals and Brandon will be on the Cubs. They are excited to try something new but it sure is a lot more expensive than soccer. We went and had to buy new cleats for soccer and baseball and pants and gloves, etc...

Ready to start the back to school week...

Hunter's Last Game

Today was Hunter's last basketball game of the season. We were the Home Team. YEAH!! He did good and you could tell he learned a lot this past season.

He hustled!

He was basketball-ready... He hopes to play again in the Winter time competitively.

Getting Ready to head out...

Last night I had a nice dinner date with Dad. It was just the two of us and we met in his "office". It was so nice to talk to him and listen and talk and listen. We had a really nice time and I hope to do it again soon.

Tomorrow we have a busy day so today we are relaxing and trying to get everything ready to go out of town. Hunter has a game at 9:00, Brandon has a game at 1:45 and then after that we are headed to Austin. It will be a nice family trip to the book stores. YEAH! The kids are excited that we get to stay in a hotel and that's all they care about. We should be back sometime on Tuesday.

The purses are coming along and slowly but surely I will get to 200. Hopefully while we are away I can fold the last of them and finish them once we get back. Nothing else to report...

Weekend Update

We had a nice weekend but it went by fast!! Hunter had a game on Sat morning and they won. He did really well and is a joy to watch out there. You can see that he is loving basketball. We also found out what soccer team he was placed on. He will be playing with the Wombats and is ecstatic! He knows quite a few kids on the team and got placed with our neighbor, Jayson, which was really his #1 request. He is really excited.

Brandon played on Sunday and they lost... BAD. It was not a fun game to watch. The ref was terrible. He didn't score for the first time all season. The coach made some bad calls. Like I said, it was bad. This takes them out of the running for the playoffs which, I think, is the first time ever we have experienced that. They will have one more game in 2 weeks (we have a bye next week) and then the indoor season is over. Brian decided to coach his team again for outdoor so it has given him a new viewpoint of what he needs to work on by being a spectator all season. They are looking forward to getting back to the basics.

Other than that not much is new. It feels like a Monday. Hard to get going...