Still Summer

Well friends and family, many of you have happily returned your lovely children to school. Happy, bright, loving their new school clothes, new shoes, seeing their friends again. My lovely children are home wondering what they will do for the remainder of this week and ALL of next week, until the FOLLOWING Tuesday. Suggestions welcome...

We are anxiously awaiting the emails placing our lovely Soccer Chick and Baseball Chick on their fall teams. Seems that when we have reached this time of year, every second feels like a year. No word yet, but we are definitely excited to get this ball rolling. The girls are ready to begin practices, meet their coaches, see their teams and receive their ever-exciting uniforms. But alas, we wait.

We almost had the Hub roped into coaching Soccer Chick's season this fall. After the third email pleading for one more coach to step up arrived in our inbox one of her friend's mother and I decided the Hub definitely had time to take this on. Thank God He knows more than we do. By the time I sent the email that the Hub would do it, another gentleman had stepped up. The Hub has, however, graciously volunteered to man the grill at all home games for Oldest's football team meals. Just him, 100 football playing kids, a bunch of overgrown, outdated man-coaches and sports moms. He's gonna have a blast. Just his kind of scene.

Football scrimmage number 3 and last non-official game of the season commences tonight. I'm doing my best to stop watching the clock this afternoon. Game time is 5pm. We're pretty psyched up about it. Oldest is listed on the school roster as 6'0, 210 pounds. Highest # on the team, #92. Game time baby, as he would say.

The Hub says we would be doing a big disservice to ourselves and to Youngest if we didn't get that character on tv somewhere. If God opens that door I know it will be Him. This kid is destine for stardom. I can't tell you how many teenage fans he has. At 4 years of age he has more friends than me. That's not saying a whole lot, but in perspective, what 4 year old engages in conversation and warms the hearts of teenage girls like this one? There's only one Youngest. World beware...