Such cute helpers I have at my house, don’t you think?

It can be exhausting, though!

Tell me about it!  It’s been one of those weeks at our house.  Although with Christmas behind us and school back in, I feel like I’m starting to get my feet back under me, again.  One can always hope!

We had our first basketball games on Monday.  Mariah’s team played at 4 and Megan played at 6.  How nice to have a break for dinner, right?  Mariah did great – dribbling, shooting (7 baskets!), defense.  At one point my team even used a pick to get past the halfcourt line.  That was the coolest thing ever. We played Wednesday, too.  In fact, my whole team did so well, I started to feel kind of bad . . . But, I decided it’s not my fault that they are so good.  I have six fourth graders and only three third graders and that extra year of playing just makes a big difference.  I think we’ll have a fun season! 

Megan did really awesome at her game, too.  In fact, the game was pretty slow until Megan got in – then everything got exciting! And I am not just saying that because I’m really only interested in watching my own daughters play.  (Well, part of that is kind of true . . .)  She stole the ball, she raced down the court for fast-break layups, she went to the line to shoot foul shots, she went from defense at the top of the key to rebounding under the basket – the girl was EVERYWHERE! 

Sarah had a game Wednesday and I wasn’t there (see paragraph 2).  Their team lost, but I have it on good authority that Sarah did really well, scoring 5 of their 11 points – one of those shots was a jumper from 15 feet out!  Such fun!

The other excitement this week came from Savannah auditioning for the school musical, “Once Upon a Mattress.”  Savannah has been taking voice lessons this fall, but her teacher took the month of December off because she had a new baby.  So, for some extra preparation, we slipped in two lessons before the audition – one last week and one on Tuesday this week.  Savannah’s piano lessons got switched to Tuesday, too, this week by chance.  Oh, and did I mention that Tuesday was the day that all the kids who were auditioning stayed after school to learn the dance they needed to perform for the Wednesday audition?  Yeah, by the end of the day Tuesday, poor Savannah was frazzled from all the activity and the stress.  Understandable.  She pulled it together for her audition on Wednesday.  She was the first to audition (nice to end the stress early!).  Thursday during school the results were posted and Savannah made callbacks which were on Friday.  Last word is that she’s in and she gets to participate, although she doesn’t know about speaking parts, yet.  She is so excited!  She’s been on cloud nine all weekend.  Yay!  It is going to be great fun for her.

We all went to an office party for Kevin’s work on Friday.  It was at the enormous house of one of Kevin’s coworkers.  We ate lots of pizza, decided no on the very steep sled-hill, and played with the kids.  I started teaching Sarah, Megan, and Mariah how to play pool, which made me wonder where I had learned how to play?  I have memories of playing pool but not of being a beginner and just learning.  All is blankness . . .  I do remember why I hate foosball, though.  Everyone else had great, laughing fun playing that, too.  :)