which direction am I going?

My day has started out kinda bumpy…  so I’m looking for a smooth landing!!

After getting up early to help Henry study for a Social Studies test, then getting Oliver ready for his second of three concerts in two days, and ME saying I wanted to leave early so I could get a coffee…  we’re in the car chatting and my auto-pilot takes me ONTO THE FREEWAY and not straight ahead to Henry’s school.  Yep.  I take him to school every.single.day but today…  I get on the highway.  His hopes of “take your child to work day” and missing his test were dashed when I turned around, and it took us a ½ clover, a long stoplight, and waiting behind a bus in the right-hand lane turning left…  before I was back on the correct path to start my day.  Only to get here and have the same McAfee error that corrupted my old computer (got new computer at 3 pm yesterday).  Twenty minutes later {caffeine kicking in} and a VERY helpful IT guy in India (who spoke very fluent English)…  I am back in business.

So yeah…   hopeful.  Again.  For all things that God has in store for me today.


Aren’t you glad you asked?!  Oh, wait.  You didn't ask.

...a little girl with GREAT BIG plans!

Undefeated Champions

It....was....a.... nail-biter!

The kids were a little squirrely during the warm-up!

But energized and ready.

Neither team was really "on their game".

This was possibly the lowest scoring game of the season.

Fouls were made.  Shots were missed.

Freebies (free throws) were all over the place.

And it was the championship game!

We were down by ONE basket, with 48 seconds to go.

Seconds before, one of our players gets injured.

And the tall kid - Will - gets put back in.

One basket remained...

and 11 seconds to "stall" the score.

Quite literally, Grandpa foreshadowed

"the team who has the ball in hand last will win"

.................

And WIN they did!!

What a fun season.

Oliver's first official season of basketball on an organized team.

He will tell you he "was hesitant to join, at first"

but will BEAM now when he tells you

of his undefeated season.

Way to go,

Oliver!

and Kung-Fu Pandas

Oh, Oliver Patrick & all things {not} Irish

So... Oliver's middle name is Patrick.  For no reason.  No relation to anyone named Patrick in our lineage that we are aware of, no significance whatsoever.  As far as nicknames go, I wanted to be able to call him OP (Opie) like the character on the Andy Griffith show...  right?  So we had Oliver picked out and I just pulled Patrick out of the air.  I liked the way the two sounded together. We must have some Irish in us...  somewhere (JP's side, I think).

Oliver, on the other hand, believes that St. Patrick's Day is all about him.  Luck of the Irish, dontchaknow?  His middle name is Patrick - so he believes that he will always be lucky that day each year.  Can't squash a kid's dreams and beliefs, right?!

This year...  the last game of his basketball season is on Saturday, St. Patrick's Day, and they are undefeated...  so in celebration of my little non Irish boy, I think that we will definitely have to get a cuppa something yummy with GREEN whipped cream from Caribou to celebrate the season!

OPIE

OP

*updated*Apparently my grandfather was 1/2 Irish...  good to know.  thanks, Mom!

spring forward

Dinner with Pete & Sue @ Spasso on Saturday.  Dessert and drinks at their house afterward.

Church, singing, rehearsal, teaching Grace Place on Sunday.  My Osseo alum classmate, Tom Sullivan, sang a wonderful gospel solo with the Expression Choir.

We look forward to some quiet time on Sundays while Oliver is rehearsing for the Mother's Day musical.  JP and I bring our ipads and Henry his homework, and we look for a place to hide out.

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It was a weekend chocked full of eaitng out and catching up.  Losing that one hour must have really thrown our house into fast-forward, huh?  Okay, so I'm making an excuse for not counting calories and sticking to my workout and diet.  Oops.

However, it really was an exceptional weekend, including breaking the 1902 weather record with our Saturday high of 62*.