I’m back, my darlings! The last few weekends have been a huge blur, mostly because we are trying to maximize our time together, end up running all over the state for high school football, college football, and cross-country meets and because Jim is only home for 36 hours these days. I am definitely not complaining though. The weather has been gorgeous, and we have been having a lot of fun doing all the things. I do love this time of year.
Honestly, the rest of the past few weeks have been relatively boring. I spend way too much time in the car shuttling kids back and forth to all of their activities. Work keeps me busy during the day, and we usually don’t get home from dance or marching band practice until 8 or 9. As you can imagine, the days pass very, very quickly.
Connor has been doing wonderful in cross-country. He’s improved his time by 11 minutes and is practicing with the varsity team now. Depending on how the varsity team did at today’s meet, there is a good chance he will run on the varsity team at next week’s meet. Either way, he is the in the top two runners for the JV team and keeps getting better. We are SO proud of him and love watching him run.
Marching band has been awesome too even if it was a little surreal sitting at a high school football game for your son. The band, even though it is small, is quite impressive. Their competition season starts in October, so it will be interesting to see how they fare against other schools. Still, it has been a blast watching them perform and even better getting back into high school football games.
Holly is loving her five dance classes, even if they have her falling sleep on the way home every night. She has become quite the little dancer at home and frequently busts a move to music on the radio. I am really looking forward to her recitals in June because I can already see how much she has improved since last year. It has definitely been a fun school year so far, and it only just started!
Books reviewed recently:
- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
- Day One by Nate Kenyon
- Help for the Haunted by John Searles
- The Maid’s Version by Daniel Woodrell
- Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
- Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
- The Outcasts by Kathleen Kent
- Red Hill by Jamie McGuire
- Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
- The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini
It’s been fun, but Jim is leaving in a few short hours. I need to spend more time with him. Have a great Sunday and even better week. Happy reading!
Improvement of 11 minutes?!? That is amazing!!! Good for him!!!
11 minutes since his first meet. Granted, some of that was just healing from his sprained ankle. However even last week he improved his time by 1 minute, 21 seconds. It is so much fun to see him run.
My son is having difficulty balancing his numerous activities, cross country included. He is going to have to give something up and is now in hot water with the coaches but yay for your son! Running with varsity has got to be cool.
Oh, I hate to hear that! We had issued a similar pronouncement to Connor before everything started, and it seems to be the one time he listened to us. The coaches can get angry, but at the end of the day, academics is more important than any extracurricular. Good luck with your son! Hopefully, things settle down for him soon.
Busy gal! There are those times when a parent feels mostly like a chauffeur. I’m glad to hear that you are enjoying their performances and races, you aren’t only their driver 😉
I feel like my butt is permanently sewn to the car seat some days. That’s okay. I just realized that we have just over two more years before we need to start the college discussion. I’ll take chauffeuring any day because I am DEFINITELY not ready for that!
Whew – you sound so busy! Glad all is well with you and your family. 🙂
Busy is the key word, but it seems to be working. No one has had a meltdown yet, which is a good thing. I feel like it is a bit of a house of cards thought and am waiting for my carefully structured schedule to come toppling down around me.
Yay, so I was most happy to see the things with your son and cross country since mine had a meet this weekend too – and same thing – got a Varsity time – as a freshman, so looking to see if he makes varisty team after the next meet. How awesome for the young ‘uns!
Have a great week 🙂
It is so exciting to see them perform so well as freshmen, isn’t it? It makes me so proud and just a wee bit competitive on his behalf. LOL!
Have a good week!
I was wondering about the Morrell book. I know he wrote the books on which Rambo were based years ago, if it’s the same Morrell, and wondered about that. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.
It is the same Morrell. I’m not a huge fan of the Rambo movies (is any woman?), and the other books of his I’ve read have been good stories but poorly written.