Outnumbered
There are moments when the lack of respect I get in my house is unbelievable. Example: yesterday S and I used the relatively warm and dry afternoon to put up some outdoor Christmas lights. Part of our post-pool construction landscaping was adding seven Norwegian spruces to our backyard to provide some privacy. We decided to add them to our holiday…
Kid Sports: A Controversial End
We finally – FINALLY – wrapped up the fall sports season last night. It was a strange and disappointing ending. L’s basketball team’s first opponent in the City tournament was a team that was undefeated. All those wins came in very convincing fashion. We figured it was another team loaded with six graders who play year-round and we’d be lucky…
Weekend Notes
As has become routine, a quick-ish rundown of what went down over the weekend. Halloween OK, not technically the weekend, but worth a few words about how the girls spent Halloween. M went to a friend’s house to hang out and watch movies. C, along with most of the girls in her grade, dressed as Dalmatians. They didn’t quite make…
Belated Weekend Notes
OK, finally some weekend notes. Youth Basketball L’s team finally got their second win of the year, a nervy 18–15 win. They were down 14–10 in the fourth quarter, which seemed like a monumental gap. We got back-to-back steals and scores to tie, then cranked up the defense, got a couple more scores, and held on for the win. It…
Fall Sports: The Wind Down
We are one step closer to being done with fall sports. L played her final soccer game of the season on Saturday. They won 3–1 to push their record to 4–1–1, including four-straight wins. It was kind of a bummer day, though. Early in the second half she was standing near a defender who was trying to clear a ball…
Kid Sports Notes
First off, obviously there are some changes here. I finally got everything moved over to my new site host and, hopefully, functioning properly. There’s still work to do: I need to pick a new theme that I like, I’m having some trouble getting footnotes to work, and the Markdown text language I’ve been writing in for years doesn’t seem to…
Weekend Notes
It was a good holiday weekend for the family and I. It started with, as I mentioned in my Friday Vid post, 36 holes of pitch and putt golf. Later I met our friends the B’s from KC, along with Mrs. Coach Hebs, for lunch at a spot I had never been to before. Friday night we watched Coach Hebs’…
Fall Kid Sports
Fall sports have begun. Right now we are actively involved in five sports, with another to begin tomorrow. Joyous times. The fall kickball season started last Monday. We have nine teams at St. P’s this year, and got off to a great 7-2 start on opening day. The two teams to lose? My girls’ teams. C’s team, which I’m helping…
Back at It
Whew! It has been a very busy couple of days. Wednesday was the first day at St. P’s, C starting 7th grade and L starting 5th. Which meant it was also our first day dropping off at two schools. The morning went about as good as possible. C was already awake when I got up, everyone was ready to get…
Summer So Far
Here we are on June 19 and I can already say it’s been the strangest summer in some time. Mostly because it really doesn’t feel like summer yet. The big issue has been the weather. It was a moderately wet spring to begin with, then Mother Nature lost her damn mind in the middle of May. It’s rained something like…