...Throw that speedball by you.. make you...

Hey sports Fans... tonight was capped off with two practices. Big Sis had her travel Softball and Little Guy had his.... Not coaching this year but did slide in for the assistant coach spot on the Little Guy's team... Coaching 7 years old is a story in it self... Had a kid tonight, come up to me and basically say... Don't coach me, don't show or ask me... I don't want to be here, I'd rather be home playing Xbox. Had another one ask when do they sing the song and can he get a hot dog...

The rest of them all wanted to know why they had to practice and why couldn't we have a game... There was also great concern that one of the teams was missing... Missing from a 7 years old's vantage point.. Missing because they were their and the other team was not...

Big Sis is confused.. her coach told her tonight, she was throwing the ball to hard... yes to hard... I am getting the feeling that her coach comes from the mindset that everyone wins... even the losers get trophies so they don't feel bad or end up with low self esteem. Uses the phrase this is all about fun far too much...



So the day started out with a difference... let's just say "Voices Carry..." The calm that we have been having these past few days was dismissed by a bang of ranging hormones... Toots, done stitching and sewing has turned to "B*tching and spewing"... but it is all in the good name of ... Dot... The hormonal swings are not really that bad, just that when they come the slightest thing set other things in motion. The Kiddos have grown very use to them and have devised ways to make Toots laugh... Tonight, they stopped her in mid rant about forks and napkins and suggested she go to the spa... go relax... do yoga.. do baby yoga.. work on saying ohmmmmmmm.... It worked... Toots was soon laughing...

I am hoping with the arrival of the surrogate Nester tomorrow, Toots goes back in to nesting mode and tires herself out... Come on we all know she will clean before the surrogate Nester arrives..

We completed all the paper work for Big Sis, keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer... She is mature beyond her years but wants so much for all of this to be behind her... ( For those of you that don't know what I am referring don't worry... she is fine... )


So with the completed paperwork, I was out and about dropping of papers here and there... Toots, was out shopping for this or that... I do know she personally help bump the price of Hallmark up today... looking at her desk, it seems everyone we know has a Birthday or a Birthday party... in April...

The counter now reflects a mear blink of an eye... snap of the finger... it will be at zero real fast... 8 months ago, it was like the feeling you had when you were young and summer had a few days left and you were getting ready for school...you always had that sense that the few months in the summer were like a year... 8 months ago it seemed that May was ages away... Now May is coming at us like a kid running down the stairs Christmas morning...

I am more than confident we will be ready... and if we aren't we will be.. it's just the way it is... Dot is coming, regardless of the color of a wall or for that fact regardless of a wall.. Yes construction has not started yet...

The hours of the blog creation is getting better... I looked back over the last few, two days ago it was 3 in the morning, last night midnight... tonight... right on schedule... I still have not been able to get back into scratching notes throughout the day. The big thing I see in writing it straight out as I fall sleep is the tense is all the same... I also seem to focus ( translates to types) a shorter period of time on a given topic. Regardless, as I told my Big Sis today, I almost feel guilty if I don't write something everyday...


Thanks for hanging in and enjoying the normalcy of the clan... keep those cards and letters coming in... seems Toots has been sending this link out to folks and they have been sending it out.. and so on and so on.. to the point we just hit our 1 million visitor... joking... we still remain a nice quiet corner on the net...