This is how it works, isn't it? You think life is going to get easier the older the kids get. But then, they get all involved in all this extra curricular nonsense and suddenly you're eating dinner at 3:30 and your fantasy of "sleeping in" on the weekends is completely erased and replaced with all day hockey tournaments, or mid-day baseball games, or 5:15am practices, or field days.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Actually field day is great. (It's GREAT! Right?? That's what I'm supposed to say?) It's a league wide call-to-arms huge cleanup of all the baseball fields the league uses. Each team is assigned a certain field and time slot, and parents and players get out there and get dirty, raking, weeding, more weeding, and getting the fields just perfect for Opening Day.
Brad took Calen to his team's assigned field and they worked their tails off while Cam and I happily stayed at home (Cam still has a full blown man-cold). Brad sent me some photos of Calen and his teammate dragging the field (a heavy job!) and weeding. I love that Calen was involved, to show how much hard work is involved in keeping these fields nice.
After some hard work, you play of course! So Brad took Calen to the nearest playground on site.
Later this evening after the big guys got home, the boys asked for a "play bath", and so I had them get in their swimsuits and tossed some glow sticks in the tub for bonus fun points. They used some test tubes from a science kit and were making "experiments" and then added a Lego Emmitt and his truck, and some underwater Lego critters for a glowy underwater adventure.
They're still easy to please, and I like it.
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