Wolf Pups spring 2014

Game #1

At bat #1 = Hit #1

Great start!

Laura came to Sarah's softball game...

YAY!!!!

 

We've  missed her!!!!! I hate when these kids go off to college.  Now she's an A&M grad and leaving again.  :(   This time to do mission work in Asia for a year.  I'm proud of her for going, but I HATE that she's leaving. 

 

The kids love her so much. :)

 

She showed up early enough to warm up with Sarah and stayed late enough to play catch with Caroline and Jack after the game.  

 

 

Then we had to get a few pics of the 2 softball girls together.

And one with Coach Ledsome-- Sarah's softball coach this year.  And Laura's softball coach for 4 years in high school.

Then Caroline's softball buddy, Kayla, asked to be in a picture.  How could I say no to these sweet girls?

It was a great night!! And a HOT night!! Sheesh... How did it go from being in the 80s to 98 in a day?????  I was dying.  And I was wearing a light pink shirt that showed the sweat that was pooling all over my body.  Disgusting.

We have 5 more games. 
I am officially counting down to the end of softball. It's been fun!! But we can start again next spring.. when it's cooler.  ;)

Softball update

With the exception of Sarah's very first game, she has scored a run every game she's played!!

Not bad for a sports newbie. 

In fact her coach said she's the most improved on the team. :) 

crazy week

Some weeks just don't go as planned.

Unexpected thing #1:  At the end of last week, we found lice in Sarah's hair.  Did we find lice in Jack's short hair?  Of course not.  In Caroline's thin chin-length hair? Nope.  But they were in Sarah's thick, down to her mid-back, curly lice-colored hair.

That's what I'm calling "sandy blond" now.  Lice-colored. Those suckers blend in.

I can't even tell you how much vacuuming we've done.  Of mattresses. Of chairs. Of couches. Of floors.  We've vacuumed things that probably don't even make sense to vacuum, but this is my first experience with lice so we weren't taking any chances. 

Ugh. Just typing it makes my scalp itch.

She's been medicated and picked over with a fine toothed comb multiple times.  Every day. I haven't seen any since Saturday, but that doesn't stop me from checking...
and pulling my hair back before I hug her...
and wanting to change my shirt after she hugs me... just in case a bug crawled from her head to  my shirt.

I don't care if I'm being ridiculous.  Lice make me ridiculous.   

For the last 6 days, we've washed her sheets every day as soon as she wakes up to kill any eggs that we may have missed from the day before.  We're neurotic over here. 

I. HATE. LICE.  And I don't have time for them either.

I know, logically, we're probably in the clear.  But in my mind they're everywhere.  And it disturbs me.

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Unexpected thing #2: I went to get my oil changed and tires rotated Monday.  They said I needed a new front left tire.

I always think they make that stuff up because I'm a girl.  So I gave them attitude and said, "Um, I'm pretty sure my husband would've told me if the tread was worn on my tire.  I'm not getting a new tire."

"Ma'am, it's on the red line."

"Show me.  Show me it's on the red line. Show me I need a new tire when my husband hasn't mentioned it even once."

 (The truth is-- I don't know what "it" and the "red line" are.  I'm not sure if he showed me that "it" was on the "red line".  But I was not going to be upsold without a fight! I want a tire rotation and an oil change. Period.)

He was the most persistent little man I've ever met.  So after going a few rounds with him, I said, with an eye roll, "Let me call my husband.  He's not going to like the games you're playing."

I called Jason....

"Jason, they're saying I need a new left tire.  That the tread is worn. But I told them that I don't."

"You really do.  I've noticed that.  It's looking pretty bad."

WHAT?!

"So you're saying that you want me to buy a new tire?  You think that's what I should do?"

"Yes, go ahead."

Crap. 

Persistent little man = 1, Julie = 0


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Unexpected thing #3: After my left front tire was replaced and the rest of the tires were rotated, I got this strange dashboard message that my left REAR tire was low on air pressure.

Jason looked at my tire, kicked it, and told me that it was fine.  He said that the sensor was probably broken. 

I woke up this morning and my left rear tire was as flat as a pancake.  *sigh*

I drove to work on my spare, and Jason took my tire to Discount Tire to be fixed.  Then he drove out to my school and changed my spare in the parking lot.

Dashboard = 1, Jason = 0
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Unexpected thing #4: Sarah's game was rained out on Tuesday.  We had severe weather in the metroplex.  And considering we have weather men and weather apps, this technically shouldn't be considered an "unexpected" event, but it is irritating because we were supposed to bring snacks to the games. 

I was trying to be a good mom so I planned ahead and bought them Sunday. But then the storms came.

So now I've got 24 Gatorades and 2 boxes of Cheez-Its that I won't need until our make up game.  On June 21st.

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I feel like I can go-with-the-flow on most days.  I really do.

But from here on out, I'm going to need the week to cooperate, and go-with-MY-flow because I'm done with surprises.

Playing a little catch up

It feels like I haven't blogged in forever!! It may sound dumb, but I miss it when I don't do it as often as I'd like.

I've been busy with my classes.  I feel like any second I  have Jason home to help keep the kids out of my hair, I need to have my nose in a book.

But it IS my weekend after all.... so while I'm taking notes on Family Therapy, I've got Lifetime on in the background.  I watched the end of "Mom at Sixteen" and bawled when the teen mom gave her baby up for adoption at the end of the movie.  (Sorry to spoil the ending!) 

Then "Glass House: A Good Mother" came on. It was about a woman who took in foster kids only to slowly kill them.  Angie Harmon was the "good" mother. I love her!! She makes a FANTASTIC crazy lady.  And, in my opinion, she's one of the most naturally beautiful women around, even when chasing kids with a butcher knife.

I was yelling, "Run! RUN!" and "You know she's not dead, right?!" and "Out the door, not up the stairs! What are you doing??!" while taking notes on the life cycles of families.

Life's all about balance, right?  Work and recreation.  Both good things.  

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Next week is my last week to teach.  I'm sad to leave.  I'm NOT going to miss the drive, but I have grown to really enjoy the people there.  I'm also sad because part of me thinks/wonders/knows this will likely be my last time as a classroom teacher.  The plan is to direct the Younger Preschool until I get a job as a counselor.  I may sub in public school, but I don't know that I'll ever apply to be back in a classroom full time. 

It's a weird feeling.

Of course I also know that plans change all the time. So we'll see.  Maybe I will be doing calendar time and taking attendance again one day.


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Sarah had her first softball game Friday night. 

I took some pics.  They're not great because I didn't find a place away from the fence, but they serve the purpose of documenting the night.

She played centerfield.

She's on the right.  Ready to field the ball. :)

On her second trip to the plate, she got a hit!!

You can't see it, but the smile on her face when she got to first base was priceless! 

This was her first time to be a part of a team and play a game.  She's done recitals before, but never has she heard people cheer for her or scream, "Go, Sarah, go!!"  She'd never lined up and done the high five/"good game, good game" thing with the other team.

She seemed to have a fun time!  I'm so glad... especially because she has another game on Tuesday, practice on Thursday, a game on Saturday, and one on Sunday.  If she hated it, we'd be in for a rough week.

We ended the night with Snow Cones.  We decided this would be a post-game tradition.

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It's going to be another busy week, but I'm going to be better about blogging.

 I hope y'all had a good week... and hey, long weekend coming up!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!