daant dant dant da, If you’re a football fan you know what that means. If I could write musical scales, it might help but those of us excited about today already know the tune.
Today is Championship Sunday. Two games today will decide who plays in the Super Bowl in two weeks. The only team I really care about is of course, the Green Bay Packers, GO PACK! I think we all know my Mom bleeds Green Bay green and yellow through and through. In fact anything Wisconsin is dear to her. For her sake, I pray they win. They play their arch rivals, the Chicago Bears, at Soldier Field. It’ll be 19 degrees with snow, or a nice sunny day to those who are familiar with Chicago weather in mid January. The great thing about sports is that nothing is predetermined, you don’t know who’s going to win until they play the game. GO PACK! Mom, you’d better be wearing that cheese head hat I brought you back from Wisconsin years ago! If not, turn it upside down and fill it up with cheese dip. Whatever you do, you’d better get it out.
The kids pretty much went right to sleep last night. My oldest just came down to join me on the couch. He’s such a good boy, they both are. They are always on the go and always seem so loud and can sometimes get on your nerves, but sometimes you just have to sit back, take a deep breath and let kids be kids. The youngest had a bit rougher time last night as he was sugared up from back to back birthday parties. On top of that, he also has been dealing with a cold going on a week now. Yes, runny noses and the sniffles are still here, but I somehow have managed to so far avoid it. I’m sure it’ll get me, you see 3 out of 4 of us (all except me), have been infected and I am now surrounded.
Time for me to get some coffee so for the first time, my lovely wife will take over mid stream and finish up today’s post. So long from me until tomorrow.
Breakfast together at the table this morning is proving to be a bit difficult. I made “Green monster”….smoothies…made with kale, whole kiwi, berries, bananas and a little agave syrup. Some days they like them and others…not so much. This morning is a “Not so much” kind of a day.
One of the parties yesterday was at a place called Jungle Quest. The kids swing from 30 and 40 ft trees (indoor), on zip lines..there is also a 60 or 70ft rock wall that my guys scaled in seconds. It is very safe, and the kids all have harnesses and safety instruction before being turned loose in the “Jungle”.
After arriving home from the second party, our youngest again donned his roller skates (in the house of course), and cruised around quite well. He is really getting fast, and at one point I had to tell him once again, “No roller skating upstairs”,ugg!
Dinner together was nice for a while.. until the littlest monkey realized there was mango in his fish taco and he left the table in tears over a tiny piece of fruit. Really?? I of course caved once again and took out the mango so he would finish his dinner. I don’t think that is exactly what Love and Logic had in mind in their “Dinner” chapter. Â Oh well, I have to pick my battles and there seem to be so many battles these days that mango just did not make the list. Get dressed, brush your teeth, put on your shoes, tie your shoes, don’t hit your brother…the list goes on….thus mango did not make the cut.
Off to shower and go to church….have a wonderful Sunday.
God Bless
LLF