Catching up

My Pampered Chef order arrived Friday night... well, six of the seven cartons arrived. It took only an a hour and a half to inventory it and divide it up. Now I have to cart it to work and pass it out.

Sheela had picture retakes for the soccer team Saturday morning at 7:30am. That's about five minutes after the sunrise and it was cold! I think that the pictures will be fine but of course one of the girls overslept and didn't make it. Over all the team did not play its best but Sheela had a great game in the goal. Still they lost this one by two.

Sunil's pictures weren't until the afternoon and not only did everyone show up, half the team was actually early. The boys game was the most even game that they've had. Which is to say that they had as much trouble as we did keeping four players on the field. The boys tend to wander off. The biggest bursts of speed from both teams come as soon as the ball goes out of bounds. They race to see who can pick it up first and then get in to fights over who gets to take the ball back to the ref. We actually had to pull Sunil out of the game twice for touching the other team. He is in this phase where he feels like he has to be touching somebody at all times. As a parent its pretty annoying, I'm sure it is to the other team too. We are still working on how to put a stop to this.

Saturday night we went to a casual dinner at a friends house that expanded to be five couples twelve kids (in costumes) and a full on party spread. I ate a ton and we stayed until after midnight. Most of the kids had gone to sleep long since but ours held out to the end. We got them to bed at 1:00AM but we also got to set the clocks back so the sleeping in didn't interfere with our day too much.

It's not even 10:00AM yet and we are getting ready to go to Owens Spring Creek Farm. Yesterday Sunil asked why he's never been to a working farm to see the animals. Because your mother didn't realize we'd been so negligent. The farm is the headquarters for Owens Country Sausage, its only 15 minutes away, its open every day, its free and we used to drive by it at least twice a day. I didn't realize that Sunil had never been.

Sunil also wants to go to the Zoo today. I'd love to do that too. They opened the new Asian Small Clawed Otter exhibit a few months back but we haven't gone there to see it. But it's not going to happen today. We were also supposed to be trimming out the family room today, but Sid has to go pull down a fence and switch out a stove. One of the tenants called to say that her stove was leaking gas. Yikes.