Saturday, October 29, 2011

Pumpkins

We awoke this morning to a wet, cold day. The sun had yet to appear, but it was forecasted to make an appearance. The boy joined us to get warm and greeted us with a nice seal bark of a cough and a juicy, goopy nose. Thank goodness he was still very cheerful...for 5:50am...good grief. This is when I started really hoping that we would not have soccer games. Pooled water...36 degree temps...cruddy boy...why not go and risk getting pneumonia or a leg injury. When we got the email a bit before 8am that there would be no soccer, I let out a "Whoop whoop" that could be heard throughout the neighborhood. The girls immediately began to cry, well one was already crying due to a ripped contact lens, and the boy was handing out toilet paper(his solution for all types of injury and heartache). After having a mommy talk with the girls explaining that this was all for their safety, we soothed their broken hearts just a little with a special breakfast out to Panera. It is amazing the power of hot chocolate. Still on our quest to find iPhones and the ideal new cellular company, we ran to a new AT&T to attempt to talk with a non-nimrod. That is not nice, but if your commission depends on you selling items, and someone came in to purchase an item, you would think they would try their best to sell that item to you....instead of saying "Why would you want one of those?". Just saying. The lady was very nice and helpful and knowledgeable, so we left with lots of FOOD for thought(thanks, Don Dare). When then headed on our merry way, going home so Brain could crunch the different numbers. The kids were relieved to have lunch,. The girls had many sword battles on the Wii, the boy rested and I got in a friendly argument with our current cell company about the Android operating system. It was nice to politely vent to a friendly, well-meaning but unhelpful employee. Then I realized out of the blue, somewhat of a Quantum Leap so to speak, that we only had one pumpkin to carve and we needed to get at least one more and get a carvin'. Dear Mr. Don at Kroger informed me that there were no more at anyof their stores and "Why don't you go to Pratt's?". So I did and, $8 later, had two more pumpkins to deal with. The girls each picked their pattern of choice from this year's latest Pumpkinmasters offerings. A fairly calm activity to do with sick ones and tired parents. The kids were thrilled with their results and we were ready for them to go to bed.

As we now sit and watch the UT game and, as of right now, sorry Vols, I think about what the past two months have given us. We have had good exercise, lessons in team building, listening to coaches and being a good sport....and the pleasure of watching some excellent games. What we have missed is real together family time. Being together today, smooshed up on the couch and enjoying each other's company , I realized how much I had missed that kind of activity. We are always so busy during the week and the time is drawing to a close, though somewhat slowly, for the children to want to be with their parents in this fashion any more. S is growing up so fast, it takes my breath away to see her. So are G and the boy. Slow down, Time!

So, I know they were disappointed and cried, but I will take a good family bonding day like this over soccer anyway. And I'll cherish every single one.

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