Well the days seem to race by these days. Morning are filled with racing to get the kids ready for school, followed by waiting to pick them up then homework and soccer practice. Saturdays are soccer games and Sunday's church and Monday it starts again.
Soccer is going well for Joey and Kayla. Joey is Mr. Competitive and anything he can beat someone in is a good sport for him. Sonia on the other hand spends 1/2 the scrimmage or game watching anything but the ball and the other 1/2 skipping behind the others in a dead heat for last with the other girl on the team who doesn't seem to care at all about soccer.
Kayla loves competition, too, so she's more than happy to plow through a pile of kids to get to a soccer ball and kick it. JM spends his soccer practice waiting time playing with the other 3 year olds or riding around the track in the jogging stroller.
The getting-back-into-shape project was going pretty well this week. I'm no longer suffering any delusions about running a 1/2 marathon. I'll be happy to be competitive in a 1K. Haven't found a 1K to run in being over the 5-6 year age range, but I'll continue to look. I went to get fitted for sneakers and was surprised to be told I have high arches. They collapse so it looks like I have flat duck feet. Apparently not and it made a difference to get sneakers intended for non-flat feet. Not enough difference to think I can run in a race, however.
School with Sonia hit a bump in the road. I'm sure the first of many. She brought home her school work form the previous week and 70% of it was incomplete with the teacher writing "I know you can do better than this" on it. Ah.. yes.. you and I both, sister. Good luck getting her to reach that potential. I failed for 2 years. On the bright side, she tests really really well on standardized tests, so it doesn't matter too much how little she does, she'll test well. As long as she doesn't get bored during it and forget what she's doing.
Joey's been no trouble at all for his teacher and has made a new friend who he hangs around with at lunch and recess and go to find Sonia to annoy her. I think it's their way of saying they love each other. At least that's what I'm telling myself. She seems to enjoy the attention, they like to give it.. the teachers don't seem to interfere.. until they reach dating age I'll just let it go.
Kayla still hasn't been "friends" with the "friends" that divorced her last week. She's made 2 boy friends to take their places, in addition to the other girl friends she had despite the messy break up last week. And yes, there is a space between the boy and girl and the word friend. No dating in kindergarten allowed, please.
JM still is my shadow and annoys me to death when he tries to roll a ball up the treadmill while I'm on it. The treadmill still gives error messages and the dishwasher repair guy stood me up last week. Or rather.. at 11:30 I got a call from the dispatch office saying that they had too many calls that day and that he wouldn't be coming. Of course it's been working this week, so it was rescheduled until next week. The air conditioner decided to not work this week as well. So this following week I'll be waiting this week for dishwasher guy and air conditioning guy. Of course it isn't going to be on the same day.
And it's been hot today. And while the phrase "it's a dry heat" comes to mind, but it's still heat. There was an article in the paper today about the tourism industry in VT and how the next few weeks will be the busiest and I think... oh.. cool weather.. changing leaves.. fall.. it's a vague memory. OK. it's not vague. And with a little luck we'll return somewhere there is seasons at some point in the future.
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