Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Family Update

Wow, I cant believe its October.

I means, its October, no joke,  check your calendar if you dont believe me

It has been a long time since I wrote anything here, I know, I have been bad.  I figure I needed to update everyone on all the crazy things going on in our life or else maybe you think we fell off the face of the earth.

Lets work backwards, because thats just how my brain works.

Domino got skunked the other night.  After many baths, he still stinks.  after burning many candles in the house it still stinks.

you would think by now he would learn to not try and play with the little black and white doggy

In case I havent mentioned this before, my dog, he isnt the smartest dog around.  According to E he is stupid.  I wont say that, but smart he aint either

M is playing football this fall.  He is having a great time (this week he played both ways, Defense and Offense)  He is working hard at it and all his coaches are telling him that.  But between 5 days of football practice, 1 football game a week, plus baseball practice, plus lessons, plus velocity let me tell you what.  M now knows the true definition of worn out.

I will say we are very proud of him for working as hard as he has in his school work, football and baseball.  It has taken a lot of dedication on his part and he is really only whiney and cranky 5 or 6 days a week which i think is good for a teenager.

yes I know he isnt officially a teenager, but if you lived with him you would know, he is a teenager. and having a day or 2 of non whiney with a teenage is a big deal

Speaking of skunks (Squirrel!) did I mention we also ran into a skunk at the hanger the other day?  he was waddling around when we pulled up, he crawled under one of the containers and was going after some baby bunnies, (who were screaming at him)   When he came out (without a baby bunny) he met the bad end of a rifle, a couple of times...

and yes, it smelled bad.

I think if E ran across the one in our neighborhood its fate would be similar.

and since we are on the subject of baseball, as I said, M is playing baseball this fall.  he is still on the same team and about half of the team stayed on from the spring so they have picked up quite a few players.  We have played one tournament which they did fairly well in, the next tournament was rained out before it ever got going, the next tournament was rained out almost at the end of pool play, but of course since our games were some of the last pool play games, we never took a pitch, never threw a pitch.  We have another tournament coming up, which of course it is supposed to rain then.

Ahh the joys of playing baseball in the fall.

or at this point, not playing baseball, even though you are supposed to play baseball, because even though you are playing baseball, you arent actually playing baseball

clear as mud right?

G is following in M's footsteps and is on a T ball team, playing on the same fields M played T ball on.

Of course she has a pink bat and M never had a pink bat, his was red though so i guess that counts.  Red is close to pink

Speaking of school, M is in 7th grade now,

I know, 7th grade, OMG!.  He is like 6 feet tall.

OK, maybe he isnt 6 feet tall, I think he's actually only 5-10.  But he is still taller than me.  E keeps trying to convince me to wear heels so I will be closer to his height.  My problem is heels and I dont get along.  If you ever saw the movie "the birdcage" the guy there says  "I dont wear shoes because they make me fall down"  well I feel like that when it comes to heels.

SQUIRREL!

so anyway, 7th grade, I guess he likes it about as much as he likes any school.  One of his electives is a class called "outdoor education" where basically they are teaching them about hunting and specifically archery.  Its taught by the archery coach so I think its just a class where he is trying to find people who can shoot a bow, but M seems to enjoy the class so thats good.

Well, I am sure there have been many other things that have happened, but considering how long it took me to start writing this, and how long it has taken me to get it finished and to this point, I should probably go ahead and post this

I will do my best to keep this more up to date



Deb