Not keeping score

Anna had her first soccer game today.  She was great!  She bounced all over the field--definitely the most smiley kid on the field!  She played the whole time (compared to sitting in the corner of the field with her back to her teammates like she did during practice #1), volunteered to kick the ball into play, and even scored a goal!  She reported that she was so happy to have scored a goal that she just needed to do somersaults.  And somersault she did.  All the way down the field.  Her teammates must have thought it was pretty great, too.  Pretty soon there were three little Eagles somersaulting down the field!  Good times for this new soccer mom.  (I think we only scored three goals for the Foxes.  What a day!)

Conversations with Jesus

Samuel had a late night last night.  Tonight he was awake longer than I thought he would be.  I stole an opportunity to rock him in his room after the girls were asleep.  (I just can't get enough of my babies and a rocking chair!)  Sam is particularly good at letting us know when he's tired.  During a late dinner recently he said, "I so tired.  I sweepy.  I need to go to sweep now."  And pretty much, he did.  Anyway, back to the rocker.  I'm rocking him and telling him how much I love him.  He says, "And Daddy loves me.  And Jesus loves me.  (pause)  Jesus told me to go to bed now."  That was the end of the rocking.  He made a beeline for the bed.  

McKenna and Chris had a tough day.  McKenna was more whiny than usual.  During the parenting relay that Chris and I are working on lately, Chris advised that McKenna may have a tough night.  At bedtime while she was praying she said (completely unprompted), "Dear Jesus, please forgive me for arguing with Daddy today."  I'm content to leave it at that.  At this point, it's out of my hands!

This is so out of order.  Before anyone went to bed (or got back out) we went to another cross country meet.  It rained.  A lot.  Then it rained more.  There were lots of delays, but after attending cross country meets for about the last 25 years I saw something new.  They stopped a race that was underway due to inclement weather.  Well, not just inclement.  It was a storm.  We had umbrellas.  There wasn't much taller than us.  The girls enjoyed the adventure, mostly.  McKenna had a couple of moments when she, being a princess and all, didn't want to be soaking wet.  Anna was a real trooper, enduring the weather.  She kind of thrived.  Runners (and some with pink shoes, even), rain, friends there with a baby, holding the umbrella, running on the real course, what's not to love!  

One thing I'm not

So I'm working with a group of nursing students last week and before getting busy we were making small talk.  What was your previous job, where do you live, and so on.  I mention that we live a few miles from Verizon near Noblesville.  This peaks one guy's attention.  He says that he used to go up  there for a few days at a time...loved it...had a good time.  When people say they come to Verizon for a few days at a time they're generally talking about Dave Matthews, Phish, or the Grateful Dead.  Another guy mentions that he can't believe it's been six years since Jerry Garcia died.  Without missing a beat, it just spills out of my mouth that it was actually August 1995.  I impressed even myself.  The first guy looks a little confused, but I proceed to explain.  "Yeah, I was camping with a girl who was absolutely heartbroken."  Now he looks even more confused.  He says, "I would have never pegged you for a deadhead."  It sounded...well, something...when I told him that I wasn't a deadhead.  It was cross country camp.

Distractions

So while I'm supposed to be reading, I'm doing a better job of watching Jon & Kate Plus 8.  They say there's a marathon on Labor Day weekend.  That should be fun for our girls because they'll see all the little Gosselins wearing "big rose dresses".  The last marathon preview has those girls wearing the same dresses that are hanging in our girls' closet upstairs.  I sense this will be a big deal.

Call Pat and Vanna

Samuel has a new favorite dessert.  He just loves the "corn on the cobbler" that we had tonight!  With much chuckling, we finally got him to at least identify it as "peach on the cobbler".  I think it would make a good Before & After puzzle on Wheel of Fortune.

Lost in Translation

Tonight Anna was working on her Bible verse for her soccer team.  Perhaps you've not yet heard this version.

"John 14:6.  Jesus answered, I am the way, the truth and the Life.  No one gets close to my father except for me."

Simple addition

Adding up the pages of reading for the upcoming semester (minus four textbooks that i don't yet have), I have 10,709 pages to conquer.