Lacey the lab woke me at 2am to go to the bathroom and I never quite got back into a deep sleep. We then got up at 6 to get ready to get the oldest ready for swim team. Yesterday was a big day of sports for the boys. First swim team from 6:30 to 9:30, then they swam and played at the pool from 12:30 until 3 and then headed to football from 6 until 8pm. Both boys did great at football. The oldest played quite a bit of quarterback and it’s clear he has the strongest arm on the team. Meanwhile the little one was the tallest on his team and turned out to be super fast and not only scored a touchdown on a long run (due to his new long legs) but was also a star on defense. Mom showed up for most of it but had to leave early because of allergies.
Yesterday her mother called concerned as the day before when I was in San Francisco, the misses had a bad allergy attack. She was talking with her mother and trying to determine the cause, when the misses said she had a nut bar (as in candy bar) earlier in the day and thought perhaps the nuts gave her a reaction. Well it turns out my good mother in law, always looking out for me and our marriage, thought she said she “went to the Nut Bar” as in a actual bar. So mom-in-law called the misses up and wanted to know if she’s unhappy and why she’d be going out to a bar drinking while her sweet, fantastic, one of a kind, hard working husband is on a business trip to San Francisco! Personally I thought this was a perfectly logical question given the circumstances and am happy to know my mother in law is watching out for me. Too funny, huh.
The next funny moment of the day was when Mom suggested to the boys that she could call Uncle T and see if they could come down for a visit. Now the boys are already scheduled for a day of fun with him tomorrow so our oldest said to her, “Mom, we don’t want to max Uncle T out like we do credit cards, maybe we should stay home”. This also is pretty priceless. It turns out my Dallas trip is postponed but it’s great Uncle T is still taking the boys as I have a lot of work to do, thanks Uncle T.
It’ll be almost 90 today and will continue through the next week. Looks like Obama is playing to his base for political points by bringing home more troops from Afghanistan than his Generals recommend. Personally I think we should bring them all home, we cannot be the World’s policemen any longer as we have far too many problems of our own. Plus, we just can’t afford it! A noted Harvard (and Nobel Prize) economist put it into perspective the other day when he said “Europe is the trigger and the U.S. is the bomb”. If you pay any attention to what’s happening overseas, (which you should as the whole World is connected and what happens over there impacts us over here), we’re all still in real trouble. I’ll leave it at but as I’ve said before, do me a favor and when you go grocery shopping, buy a few extra cans of your favorite canned goods and some extra pasta and sauce or whatever you like to eat that is not perishable. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did! If I’m wrong, you’ll just have some extra food which you’ll use anyhow so it’s really a win win strategy. As Nike says, Just Do It!
I have lots of calls (again) today so I need to get moving. Mom’s making the beds and the littlest one is ready to go the pool where the older boy has been for the past hour swimming away. Hope everyone is doing well, is healthy and happy, and we’ll talk soon.
God Bless,