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Living Life On The Go

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Life has been a bit crazy. With three teenage boys and a husband who loves sports also we are always on the go. Here are some pictures of what we have been doing.

My oldest son (Junior) went to Homecoming for the first time with his beautiful girlfriend.

My middle son, who is a freshman, went with a group of friends.

I have been watching a lot of this: (that is my oldest in green, but both my oldest and middle child are running cross country)

And following my youngest baby around while he does a lot of this.

Then I have been playing with a new friend who has determined we are his/her (??) home. Unfortunately my kitty and dog have not been as accommodating. We will see what happens.

And as soon as cross country is over, I will be on the sidelines watching a lot of this.

Life has been busy and full and since they are only a handful of years away from leaving the nest, I don’t want to miss a moment.

What have you been up to?

Are you ready for some…..Soccer (Thought I was going to Say Football, huh?)

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Despite still being 10000 degrees outside here in Florida the calendar tells me Fall is around the corner. It is at that time I start signing “This is the most wonderful time of the year.” Anyone who knows me has heard me say a time or two or a thousand that September, October, November are my favorite times of the year; with Thanksgiving being my favorite holiday (I am my Daddy’s girl that way).

IMG_6560_filteredAlso this means we leave the wonderful sport of basketball behind for a couple of months and enter the world of soccer and cross country. My youngest one said he wanted to play soccer again and my two older boys will be running cross country meets almost every Saturday early in the mornings. This has been a new experience for my middle child, he is very athletic and sports minded but his enjoyment with running has surprised me. My oldest will most likely make the varsity team in cross country, he has been working hard on his speed.

This Momma is doing great with her running, but unlike her boys who run 5 miles a day I can only manage 3 miles every other day, and that is with my yelling “I can do all things through Christ” all throughout the last half mile. Oh if I could bottle up some of their endurance and energy.

My youngest son lost his final championship basketball game last night and my two older boys have their championship game on Saturday.  ItIMG_6604_filtered was bitter sweet for my youngest, he scored a lot of points and it was a great game.  But it is hard to win against a player who shots 7 3-pointers in one game.  This player was on their game and unfortunately on the other team.  Ah well.

My husband does a wonderful job coaching, I enjoy watching him with the kids and how they come to respect him and his coaching.  He will be coaching my youngest son’s soccer team also.  I praise God he had me marry a man who loves sports (hmm did I say that I use to curse it, anyways)…what I was saying is if the Lord blessed me with three boys I am so blessed he gave me a man who likes to be right there in the middle of everything they are doing.  When these boys are older I think they will realize what a blessing it was to always have their father there.

Well the pictures in this post were from last year, I will need to dust off my camera and get it ready.  Unfortunately I have not been as good using my camera as I was in the past, but sitting outside watching soccer gives me inspiration.

Hope all is well with you.  Do you like Fall if so what is the one thing you LOVE about the Fall season?

It’s Crazy In Here

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crazy_hereA rambling post that may make no sense at all… can’t say I didn’t warn you.

Have you ever had a week where if it is not one thing it is another. I have a child who wants to make a sports team really, really bad. And as a mother I want him to make the team really, really bad because I know how much it means to him. But sometimes that is not how things work out and we as parents have repeatedly told him this is not the most important thing in life.

Of course it did not help him that I cried when I shared about trying out for cheerleading and it came down to just me and one other girl. I went in and did my best, nailed the routine, was proud how I did, and they picked the other girl. I think each of us has times during our high school years where we want something so bad and it just does not work out. BUT…we don’t know if he has made the team or not (well he made the first cut). On Wednesday we got the indication that he was going to be cut last night, so we as parents were sad and trying to encourage our son telling him how proud we are that he tried hard. Well the coaches delayed the cuts, so we wait.

I know it is suppose to be an emotional roller coaster for my son, but it is a BIG rollercoaster for me. The coach did go up to my son last night and said, “Son I need you to get better, you need to try harder.” Of course you are left with “well what does that mean??” But I told my son I took that as an encouragement because if he already crossed you off the list he would not bother saying anything.

So we wait.

Then I wake up one morning this week with a $300 dollar phone bill. WHAT THE HECK! I hate confrontation, especially with business’ that are not known to listen to reason. During the last month we added my new phone and changed the plan for my old phone, giving that phone to one of my sons. We received a notice of “high data” usage so when I tired to call or access our account on the computer they said “we can not help you until the bill comes out. Everything is in transition right now.” Then I finally receive the bill and WHAM. Ug.

I prayed the whole way while driving my son to school, my husband said “Lori you are going to need to be firm with the company or they won’t do a thing for us.” Like I said, I HATE confrontation, I wilt like a wet noodle. God smiled on me and gave me a lady who was having a good day so far. What happened is “data usage” is NOT part of my son’s phone plan but he had some of his friends “blue tooth” songs to him. Well one of the charges (JUST ONE) was for $92.00 OH MY WORD. Of course when I confronted my son, he was freaked out. He did not do it on purpose. Well I have now officially blocked that on his phone and the At&t lady, ERASED THE ALL OF THE DATA USAGE CHARGES. Oh my sweet word I never wanted to kiss a phone agent before but this came close. I told her she made my day and she said, “Hey it is Christmas.” OH THANK YOU JESUS. Seriously I was planning on having a huge crying session if I had to pay that bill.

God Blessed.

Then (by the way each paragraph is a different son) I have one son that needed some medicine. We have tried and tried and tried to get this child (HE IS IN 6TH GRADE) to swallow a pill. For the life of him, he can not get it down. How hard can it be, my goodness. Well it is not happening. This morning he tired and tired and tired again and I walked into the kitchen to find him throwing the pill into the trash, kicking the trashing can while screaming at it. Yeah, we are mature in our household. Ha! YiYiYi…

It is the little things that frustrate us the most.

I can not tell you how happy I am it is Friday. We do have basketball games beginning for my youngest and my husband has volunteered to be the Freshman coach for the High School team, so he has his first game. This will be the first time he is coaching a team with none of his kids on it.  My two youngest lost their championship soccer games but both were great games.

All of the above is small compared to some of life’s problems, I realize that.  Thank you for allow me to have a bit of “writing therapy.”  How has your week been and are you doing any thing fun this weekend!!