Sports
Summer, 2009
Jul 15th
Trying to figure out this spring and summer. Spring was cold (especially at the Woodstock High School softball field), and summer has had more than its share of rain, in fact this last weekend was the first that we did not have weather related rain-outs for softball tournaments. Really can’t complain, as we have only had to run the air conditioner just a handful of days.
The upcoming weekend will be Abby’s final tournament of the summer, they have had a successful season to date, with one 1st place and four 3rd places out of the 7 tournaments they have participated in. And the weather looks good for this weekend!
Caleb has been trying to caddy this summer, you can tell the economy is still struggling when the affluent are cutting back in areas that they never did before. He is lucky to get one carry a week.
Changed my blog look last night, love blue, but it was TOO blue. This is simpler, but still tweaking it. Michael Hyatt (CEO of Thomas Nelson) was kind enough to let me use his twitter and facebook icons, now just to get them dropped down on the page and add “you can find me …”. I really need to take an HTML class to get the basics down if I want to do more web work.
Not much sleep last night, Abby went to the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter film, so I did not sleep well until I knew she was back at her friends where she was spending the night. She was good about texting me and letting me know where she was and when they arrived.
Off to work, hoping nobody asks me anything difficult today. 
Some thoughts on a rainy Saturday
Jun 13th
Just sitting on my couch, drinking my coffee and watching the rain ~ wondering what is going to happen with the softball tournament later today. Too early too worry about it. House is quiet, Caleb and Tom are out working, Abby spent the night at a friends. Now that I got Riley to stop barking at all the cars across the street for the garage sale, it is a bit more peaceful in here.
When you have a house as busy as ours is, it is a rare occurance to have a quiet Saturday morning. I feel like I should be up doing something, catching up on something, cleaning something, but it feels really good just to sit and enjoy the quiet. Been doing some reading recently on rest and how we are more effective if we take time to rest and not go 24/7. Rest just isn’t doing nothing, but doing something that feeds you. For me that is reading, watching my kids in their sporting activities, and listening to podcasts. I know I can be a little slow on the uptake, but if I am not reading or learning regularly, I have a tendancy to spin cycle into unhealthy self-talk. I guess it is how I am wired. And it really doesn’t matter what I am reading, just that I read.
What in life feeds you? Strengthens you? Energizes you?
Vacation ???
May 19th
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Really, I haven’t been on a long extended vacation (don’t I wish). My computer took over 2 weeks to get back and have been playing catch up since then (along with 2 clients having audits, ugg).
Today is election day. I hope everyone votes. It is really important. I was taking my daughter to basketball at 5:40 AM! and there was a line of at least 10 people at my polling place.
Softball is now over for a month. Abby just participated in 2 college exposure tournaments and we have a couple of colleges that are expressing interest. Should be fun (and a learning experience) over the next year or so.
We did a college visit to SIU-Edwardsville on our way to St. Louis. Beautiful campus, lots of creative ideas. Really liked it.
Have a good one everyone, will be back to posting regularly again.
Softball
May 19th
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Hard to believe, but after next week my daughter’s travel softball season will be over. It has so far been 7 straight weekends, we get this weekend off(?) because we have to travel to Kansas for a week long World Series. It has been an interesting season, mostly because of some things that happened at the very beginning of the season (1 player quit, another sick, another hurt) so it has been a season of adjustments. They have had to adjust to 5 new players and there was just a bonding and learning curve. It took longer than we expected, but they are finally jelling as a team.
It has been tough on the parents, because we know what this team can do when it is clicking on all cylinders. We are hoping that next week this season pays off for them, that they play to their potential, and they have a successful Nationals trip.