Monday, Monday

I kind of feel like the song "Monday, Monday" today. As the song says, "Every other day of the week is fine." I think it's just the fact that after getting to sleep in for two days, it's hard to get up and at 'em this morning. And being Monday, it's overwhelming, the thought of making it to the next weekend. This week we have five baseball games, my wonderful husband has an awards ceremony at his school, I have to teach one evening, JR has a report that needs to be written, and we still have the normal daily lives to accomplish. There is also a rumor that the baseball league is going to reschedule Opening Day for this week, which means a 7 AM wake up for Saturday, and not being home from the ball park until 5 that evening. To be honest, I'm hoping for rain that day because it's such a draining day.

But our family did have a very nice weekend. We enjoyed spending yesterday with my parents, and even got to stop in and see my grandmother for about an hour. I felt very, very blessed yesterday, to have such a wonderful family!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful moms in the world! It was so cute to see my younger two kids so excited to give me the gifts they had made at school this week. I also saw that my oldest, whose class didn't make anything at school, wasn't remotely interested in the fact that it's Mother's Day. I don't fault him at all...I remember feeling pretty disinterested in Mother's Day through most of my teen years. It's just interesting (and a little depressing) to me to see the transition beginning in him. I'm feeling so incredibly blessed today...and many days!

First victory

The wonderful girls that I am coaching gave me a season opening victory last night. I have to say, I was truly impressed with each and every one of them. All of them had at least one hit and we even fielded the ball and got some outs! I was really pleased with how everyone performed...with the possible exception of myself. I had no idea that I could stress that much over seven and eight year-olds-playing softball! My wonderful husband kept telling me that things had obviously gone well, but I just couldn't see it myself. I felt totally unprepared, completely overwhelmed, and hopelessly disorganized. Supposedly, that's how all rookie coaches feel, but I just want to make sure the girls have a positive experience...to me that is the most important thing about playing the game at this level. Anyway, it was fun to get our first win, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season!

Alien space ship

JC has had an assignment for the past two weeks that involves charting the moon phases. This has been challenging for two reasons: a) we've had a lot of rain the last two weeks, and b) It is late April/early May, and the moon does not come out until after her bedtime. This has been frustrating for us as she is not a child that can just go to bed a little later and everything will be fine. Other parents of second graders, even in our own school district, have told us that their child had the assignment in November and December...you know, when the moon is out significantly earlier! Anyway, Monday evening HT accompanied his sister out to see if the moon could be seen. They came back in and I asked if the moon was spotted. HT matter-of-factly replied, "Nope, I only saw the alien space ship." "You saw an alien space ship?" I asked. He calmly stated he had seen the alien ship and went about his evening. I was amused! Shortly after, JC came to me and said that she was pretty sure that it was just an airplane but she didn't want to hurt her brother's feelings. Apparently, her feelings weren't quite so magnanimous last evening because I heard HT announce that he had again seen the alien ship, and JC was very quick (and loud) to inform him it wasn't true!

First Reds game

My husband has a tradition with each of our children. The summer that they are six, they may attend their first Reds game with him. It's always a big deal, but I think today is one of the biggest. For one thing, it's the youngest and we can't believe he's already six. Secondly, my husband had several personal days to use, so he is using one today and they are going to a daytime game. HT is very excited that he gets to miss school, which is something we almost never do "just because." However, even his teacher mentioned that him missing Kindergarten is no damage done. I can't believe I have the entire house to myself for the next 6-1/2 hours. It's kind of a scary feeling, knowing that this is how it will be every day next year when all are in school all day. Today, I'm just going to relax and move at my own pace, with no clock to worry about for many hours.

Rainy Sunday

Today the weather pretty much picked up where it left off yesterday. All rain, all day. I've pretty much slept the day away though. I awoke with a migraine this morning that I just couldn't shake. It was the first time I ever became physically ill from a migraine, and it was also the first time that one dose of the pain meds didn't help and I needed a second dose. On the upside, I'm feeling better now.

The kids had a nice morning at church. Both JR and JC had perfect attendance at Sunday School for the entire year (this morning was the last session). There was a drawing for a $25 prize for those who had perfect attendance and JC was very excited to be the winner. She has announced that will be putting her winnings in the bank for now. The annual church picnic was also held after Mass (with some slight modifications thanks to the weather) and it sounds as though everyone enjoyed visiting with others there as well. I, of course, was home asleep through it all trying to fight the migraine. This evening my wonderful husband has taken HT to a birthday party at a bowling alley. I'm sure they are having a great time.

This week coming up we should get our first round of ball games in. We even have Tuesday evening off...we can have another real sit down family dinner!

Rained out

Everything about Opening Day for ball games was rained out today. We were disappointed, but since it was to be an all day event, we also feel we were given the gift of time! We are working on cleaning the house and getting a jump on some of next week's responsibilities. We were also grateful for the timing of things. According to the news last night, it wasn't supposed to start raining until about 10:00 this morning. We all needed to line up and be ready at 9:30, and I had this terrible vision of that happening, and at 10:00 when the rains moved in we would have hundreds of soaked parentless children. I was actually relieved in that regard when I heard the thunder and pounding rain at 6:00 this morning, and it was still raining at 7:00 when the alarm went off. By 7:45 it was officially a no-go, and I even went back to bed for a little while. The kids slept until 9, and I know after the craziness of the week that they needed it. Tonight is dinner with some friends, and then tomorrow is church, the church picnic, and then HT gets to attend a birthday party for a friend. So we are enjoying a few unexpected quiet hours today!