George & I are still making our weekly trip into town for groceries and errands. He’s getting a little slower and a little crankier, but he still manages to make me laugh. Sometimes without meaning to or knowing it.
For example, every Thursday at Kroger, he throws his plastic grocery bags in the trash can and thinks its the recycling bin. No matter how many times I try to tell him he’s using the wrong receptacle. He does it every time.
Makes me laugh. He’s a hoot, that George.
Hmmm…not sure if I’m ready just yet, but our schedule is slowing down just enough that I’m seriously considering it. Been busy with travel ball and busy trying to get an online shop started for my crochet stuff, school started some time ago, though I’ll be darned if I can remember exactly when that happened. Time is a blur right now. Welcome to the next several years of my life!
But I’ve been missing the blog a little. I was talking to a friend the other day whose mother passed away 2 years ago. She was telling me how thankful she was that her mom kept journals because she and her sisters absolutely cherish them now that their mom is gone. And I was thinking, Hello! Get back to your blog lady!!! Your daughters will cherish it when they are older! Duh!
So, I’m hoping to make a return pretty soon. Besides, I seriously miss all my Bleeps. That’s a word I made up just now. Short for Bloggy Peeps. 
Anywho, I’ll catch you Bleeps later, k?
Yesterday Hannah asked me to go out and jump on the trampoline with her. It was cold and very windy, so I said no.
She then sat on my lap & attempted to hypnotize me to make me do it.
That kid cracks me up. 
Katie’s fast-pitch team played in the Bunny Hop Classic in Shelbyville on Saturday. This year Katie moved up to the next age group and so, this is a new team entirely. There are only 2 girls on the team that she’s played with before.
Here she is bright & early. Probably not really awake yet, but smiling at least.
And her sister ready to cheer her on. (Right. She takes off with another little sister from the team and they are in their own little world without a clue as to what’s happening in the games. Oh well, at least she dresses the part anyway.)
Here are some of the girls warming up before the first game. It was freezing that morning. Our first game was at 9:30 and we played back to back all day until 7:00 that night. We all came out a little sun/wind burnt from sitting outside all day. We got our pasty white winter skin broken in.
A quick snack break between games
We lost the first game, but then played & won 5 games, coming up out of the loser’s bracket, to make it to the championship game & face the team that beat us in the first game. We got beat, but later found out that the team that we took 2nd place to is one of the best in the state with their own practice facility and who play all year round. I was really impressed & proud of our girls for doing so well not only for their first tourney, but also against such a tough competitor.
Katie’s highlight of the tournament was laying down a beautiful bunt and making it to first base. She then stole 2nd and later scored, sliding in safe at home on a close play at the plate.
You may remember this post, where I told about how Brian is a Kentucky fan and I am an IU fan. I do not exaggerate when I say that we cannot stand each other when our teams are playing each other. Maybe you think I’m kidding, but I am not.
Ridiculous? Yes.
Immature? Absolutely.
Stupid? You bet.
Doesn’t make it any less true. Earlier this year when IU beat Kentucky, we were at my parents house with the rest of my dad’s family for a Christmas get together. What that means is that Brian was trapped in a house full of MANY IU fans. And I know I’ve told you that my family is relentless when it comes to teasing & joking, so as you can imagine, it was a pretty rough environment for Brian.
Sadly, that is also the day that Nanner transferred her loyalty from IU to Kentucky. She felt sorry for her daddy because everyone was picking on him. I can hear you all now, you’re all going, “Awww, how sweet.”
Well, do you wanna know what I’m sayin’? I’m sayin’, “WEAK!”
In case you missed it, here’s a short video of the shot that gave me one of the best moments of my life.
Anyway, if you follow basketball, then you know that Kentucky beat us in the tourney. It’s a night I’d soon like to forget. Brian & I get so ugly. He hates me, I hate him. We go right back to loving each other the next day, but I can barely stand to look at him during the game and I know he feels the same about me. Sad but true, folks…sad, but true.
Well, my sadness soon turned to gladness when I got this video of Nanner the other day. Her face at the end, when I tell her I’m gonna show her Daddy the video and she realizes that her mother is ruthless, is nothing short of priceless. She may be a little hard to understand, so let me explain. There is a common cheer among Hoosier fans that very simply goes: HOO! HOO! HOO! HOOSIERS!
So the other day, Katie comes up & whispers, “Hannah is running around yelling the Hoosiers cheer & she’s supposed to be a Kentucky fan now.”
So, I couldn’t resist, I grabbed the camera & tricked her into doing it for me by telling her how funny it would be. Yeah, I tricked her. Mother of the Year, I know. There’s not really a level I won’t stoop to in order to pull a good joke on someone. Especially my husband. Try not to judge me.
e
It’s all going to be so worth it when Brian sees this video on my blog. BWAAHAAHAAA!!
Yes, Brian – your Wildcats may have won the NCAA Championship, but at least I will always have the above video and also the image below in my mind to bring me comfort.
Assembly Hall after IU's last second win over Kentucky
It is Sunday morning and I am sitting in my chair contemplating what to do with this day.
I’ve got 2 sicky-poo daughters upstairs sleeping and I am hoping that by allowing them to sleep in today, they are gonna wake up feeling better this morning. They went to bed last night with red cheeks & sore throats and Hannah didn’t even eat supper. Now my throat is a little tickly this morning. 
So, we are staying in and resting today. Which really stinks because we were to start a new Sunday school series this morning and now we are missing the first one.
I also have one exhausted husband upstairs sleeping who has had quite a hard transition from first to second shift. For the past 3 years, he has been accustomed to getting up at about 10 AM. He is now getting up at 3:30 AM and it has definitely taken a toll on him. All most definitely worth it though. We’ve all been enjoying him being on day shift. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer until he is used to his new routine.
Right now it is storming, dark & grey outside. I am thinking that perhaps some crochet or reading may be in order for the day. Speaking of crochet, I don’t think I ever posted a picture of this afghan that I started last year.
Well here it is all finished & being put to good use.
This is the warmest thing! I love it. However, I probably would never make one like it again. It is actually 4 pieces that you then sew together and I didn’t enjoy that part of it at all. On the one side, it looks really nice, but on the other side, you can very plainly see the seams, so I’m not crazy about that. But I do like snuggling with my girls underneath it.
I’m also working on something SOOO cute right now! I’m not even gonna say what it is, I’ll just show you when it’s done. It’s so stinkin’ cute! But I need to get over to Mamaw’s house because I’m stuck on this one part & can’t seem to figure it out.
It is certainly yucky looking outside right now…
Rather cold out there right now too. A typical spring day. I think I’ll put the coffee on, sit here in the quiet and listen to the thunder and maybe get my bible study done before everyone starts waking up.
Have a great Sunday.
Switching out the winter clothes with the summer ones…
Yikes.
And that’s just the beginning. I’m spring cleaning this week. The girls are on spring break, so they’ll be outside playing most of the time. Brian starts his new job today, so he’ll be gone & I’ll pretty much have the place to myself except for the occasional, “We’re thirsty!” or “We’re hungry!” or “She hit me!”, so I’m planning to hit the cleaning pretty hard. I’ve already taken the handle & glass pane off of the oven door & scrubbed them both. They were filthy! And I’ve got the oven auto-cleaning right now. Later I’m going to pull out the oven & fridge and clean behind and under both. And try to get the rest of the kitchen done today if at all possible. I’m tired just thinking about it!
We are redecorating the girls’ room right now and they want to have a garage sale so they can make some money off of all of their old stuff. So…at the same time that I’m spring cleaning, I’ll also be purging out things for a garage sale.
All of this on a day that’s supposed to be 81 degrees. I can already hear my bicycle calling to me…
