Andy left on Friday morning to go on a camping/fishing trip with his buddy Al. I made plans to go visit his wife, Kelly, who is also one of my bff's. I was delayed because I had to get something finished for work. (It's been a little bit of a trying week).
We had a really nice time, and the kids loved hanging out and playing together. We stayed later than we should have, but it's so hard to leave sometimes.
I got the kids to bed, although that came with it's own set of struggles. Delaney had fallen asleep in the car on the way home, and I carried her to bed, but shortly after I kissed her goodnight, she came out of the room and wanted to work on her homework. (sigh)
We were all up at 7am. That is way too early for me. We had to get breakfast, and put the ice in the cooler for the drinks since we were providing team drinks for Zane's game. Then we went to the field for Zane to do warmups. We were there for a little while, and talked to the husband of one of my other friends. We were playing their son, whom Delaney happens to have a crush on (yes, Lisa, if you're reading this, if I've never mentioned it to you before, I recently discovered that Luke is Delaney's crush).
Anyway, the coach's wife got there, so I had Ryan go and ask her how many drinks we needed. Andy said we had 27 in the cooler, and she told Ryan we needed 30. So, off we went to Woodman's. We had gotten 50 bottles of 32oz. Powerade on sale at Jewel for 50 cents each a few weeks ago. Woodman's had them on sale for 79 cents. That's not too bad. And I only had to buy about 3.
After we got back, Ryan went to join his team for warmups, and Delaney and I found my friend and went and sat by her. It's a little funny to hear us cheering for different plays. Sometimes we get to cheer for the same plays - they cheer because they held us, but we're cheering because we made a good play, or vice versa.
We left with about two minutes left in the game, and grabbed the cooler to bring the drinks to the team so Zane could pass them out. Zane had several left over, so he gave them to the coaches. When we got back to the car, he realized that he missed one of his coaches. We brought an extra drink for him, but Zane couldn't find him. I looked down at the bottom of the bleachers, near the fence by the track, and I asked Zane if that was him over there. Zane was very pleased that I found him, and he went and gave him his drink.
Then we watched Ryan's team get slaughtered. There was one play where Ryan's number was called as being part of the play. Not sure whether he tackled the person carrying the ball or what, but they butchered our last name. I asked Ryan about it, and he doesn't recall doing anything, but he did say that he pulled on someone's arm that was carrying the ball. Maybe they miscalled the play. But I was still really proud of him.
After the game, we went home and the boys and I changed our clothes and had a bite to eat. I had two peaches from Sam's Club that were very ripe, but another day or two and they'd be too ripe. I sliced both up, and Ryan and Delaney both had a slice or two. Zane looked at it in disgust, because of the red area on the flesh that had been touching the pit. I trimmed some of that off, and insisted he try a bite. He did, and said it was pretty good, but that he didn't like the skin. He asked if I could take the red stuff off another one, and take off the skin, and he ate that one, and I ended up doing one more slice for him. I was so proud of him for trying something new. He's had peaches before, but has never had them fresh like that. We've tried, but he has texture issues. But he's trying things without as much resistance lately, and he's finding that he likes quite a few things.
After that, we went to the grade school Fall Fun Fair. We bought punch cards, and the kids went around playing games and having some fun. We were an hour late, and there were a few things that had kind of long lines, so we ended up leaving without finishing the punch cards. Ryan bought himself a smoothie, and gave it to me to hold and said I could have some. I did, but I tried really hard not to drink all of it, and I'd give it back to him when he'd come back, but then he'd hand it back to me.
Delaney wanted to get her face painted, but the line was incredibly long. She waited for a while, then came out of the line to try to use up a few more punches on her ticket. Then she decided to go back into the line. It was just as long as it had been before. But then they made the announcement that the games were over, and that included the face painting. Delaney was devastated. She cried as we walked back to the car. She was not the only child crying that did not get their face painted.
We got home, and I had the boys take showers. While they were showering, I was going to sit on the couch and read, but I got so tired, I grabbed a blanket and laid out on the couch, thinking I would take a 10-15 minute power nap, and didn't wake up until about an hour and a half later. The kids were in my room watching TV, even though I grounded Delaney and Zane from TV. Sometimes things take priority. Tomorrow, I'll enforce it, and extend the grounding as well.
I had the boys do their reading and homework and got dinner going. We had split pea soup that I had made on Thursday night. I heated it up, but it was very, very thick. A lot of the water had evaporated. I could have added more water, but I decided to just heat it up, and if it needed water when we were eating it, I would add it then. Ryan & Delaney were playing Scissors, Paper, Rock, and Zane was keeping score. I told them they had to eat at least half. Zane said that it looked like dog barf. But I told him that it tastes like normal split pea soup. When I finally told them to stop playing and eat, I looked over, and Zane was halfway done with his bowl. He said, "Even though it looks like dog barf, it tastes really good." That child. He ate 3/4 of it.
I also struggled with Zane to read his book. I'm trying to get him to read some books that are higher point values, or to read more books so he can get more testing points, because I believe he is way behind. He is capable of doing more. But I don't think he's getting high enough goals or being pushed enough on that. I am going to have a talk with his teacher at his conference on Wednesday. I would like to see how she feels about giving him weekly goals to try to get for points, instead of a quarterly or monthly goal, and to set it high. Right now he's got about 2.5 points, a month in, and I think he could have at least 5. Maybe 10. Ryan has 30. Zane is reading at a high grade level, but last year, he got a really low score on a 39 Clues book, and I just realized this week, that I think that's what has him afraid to read chapter books and take tests on them. But I think he can read other books. I need to know how often he gets a chance to take the tests, and whether he can do them at home. I'd rather set a goal a little higher than what he has had in the past, and see how close he can come. If he falls short by 1-2 points or 3-4 points, we can adjust it, but if he's not being challenged enough, and he can hit that goal, then I'd like to work with the teacher to improve with that.
After dinner, Zane and I sat on the couch together. I read my Book 5 of Game of Thrones while he read the first chapter of Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief. It's within his reading level, although it's on the upper end. Maybe I will just need to sit with him while he reads a chapter, and read my book alongside of him. I haven't had much time to read lately, but maybe I will just have to force myself. That will let him feel like I'm spending time with him, set a good example, give me reading time, and be encouraging to him as well. It worked well today.
After we were done reading, we came in my bedroom to watch Mirror, Mirror with Julia Roberts. Ryan thought it was going to be dumb, and asked if he had to watch it. I told him he had to watch 20 minutes of it. An hour later, I told him he could go. He looked at me, confused, and asked why. I told him it was because he said it would be dumb. He laughed and said that it was good. We all really enjoyed it.
After the movie, they went to bed, and I got to watch some TV and a movie as well. Now I need to go to bed, as I'm serving in church tomorrow, and I have to get the kids up on my own tomorrow, and get us all ready for church. Tomorrow should be a relatively low-key day. I have church, and Zumba, and then I'll have to make dinner, get the garbage out, and get the kids to make their lunches. Maybe I'll have to run to the store for a few things as well. Maybe it won't be so low-key after all.
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