What a weekend, it was full of exercise and good times for the boys and I and culminated with our oldest ones championship football game yesterday that determined who plays for the title on June 5th. The team we played, we had played before, and beat. However they were really tough and it took overtime for us to pull out the victory. The game shouldn’t have been that close except a few questionable calls kept them in it. The first was when the ref let them “do over” a play after the other team was offsides and fumbled the snap. I’ve never seen anything like this, our offense was running out on the field and then stunned when the ref made this call. The second and more obvious blunder was after we threw for a touchdown with about 3 minutes left in the game. This would have put us up by two scores but after our player caught the ball and the celebration began, the opposing coach decided to yell at the ref, who was 40 yards away, telling him our guy was out of the end zone. Now these are 8 and 9 year old boys and the field has no lines but a few orange markers along the side lines. Anyhow the ref runs from 40 yards away, after all the players had run off the field, and lets the opposing coach show him where he said our player was. To everyones disbelief, he disallowed the touchdown! In other words he totally let the other coach make the call, and by the way, our guy WAS in! So the game ends with the score tied and the other team, by virtue of a coin toss, got the ball first. Each team was awarded one possession and they were on offense first. As it turns out (due to karma of course) we stopped them on 4 downs and scored on our first try with the ball. In the end all worked out well but it could have been really a bad ending to a great game due to the other coach essentially cheating, as everyone knew his delayed protest of our player being in bounds was a desperate last ditch attempt to keep his kids in the game. Lucky as I would have probably started saying something had we lost!
We arrived home around 3:30 and the boys played outside while I made dinner and did some laundry. Mom got home at 6:15 and we all sat down for baked potato’s, chicken and salad. The boys had a slice of blueberry pie which in hindsight was too much sugar right before bed but what are you going to do! Earlier in the day I let the oldest run some cherries up to my Moms that she wanted me to get at the grocery store. I had picked up two packs but when I got to the register I noticed it was $24 for cherries! I was stunned at the cost of two small, probably 1 pound bags of cherries. Anyhow I put our bag back and just picked up one for my Mom. $12 for a bag of cherries is too much of a luxury for us right now.
Mom’s in the shower and she leaves in about 30 minutes at 7am. I’ll need to get the kids up and fed and dressed and take them to school as she starts work at 7:15. It’s supposed to rain a bit today (again) and continue for the next 2 days. It sure is getting old but we can’t complain with tornado’s and floods everywhere else. The World didn’t end Saturday (thankfully) but there’s a lot of unusually bad weather everywhere this year. I have a big week of work with the holiday weekend coming up. Lacey goes in Wednesday to have her cracked tooth pulled and we still have no microwave, no surprise there!
Surfing around on the computer, we found a vintage 1964 Airstream trailer for sale on line for under $10,000. Now if you don’t know what an Airstream is, think back to the 60’s or go Google it. You see and old rv or motorhome is just an old rv or motorhome, but an old Airstream, it’s just vintage cool! It’s just a dream but boy would we like to have that! Can you see the four of us tooling down the highway pulling our shinny aluminum vintage trailer! It has 60″ colors inside and is really cool! Â Maybe you all should pitch in so we could come visit you this summer, ha ha! Oh well, it sure is fun to imagine driving around the country in this thing.
Time to jump in the shower as it’s now 6:40. The oldest one is up and Mom is headed to Bunkie’s for his morning shot, I forgot she needs to leave earlier to do this. Hope everyone has a great day and until tomorrow, God Bless everyone.