A lot

Last year, when the pandemic shut down literally every aspect of our kid’s activities, we felt extremely lost.  How do we spend evenings at home?   What kind of projects do we invent to fill the time that we usually spend doing everything under the sun?  Particularly for our younger 4 kids, as they have never, ever been home.   We literally left the hospital the day Quincy was released after being born, and drove straight to a softball tournament. Saige went to a wrestling meet when she was 6 days old.  Now, mind you, I rather enjoyed the down time and having time to putter around our house and invent things to do, but our kids most certainly didn’t like it!   This year, as we are reclaiming our lives or our “old normal” as I like to call it, I find myself sort of happy at the stuff we are doing. And it is a lot of stuff!   The two little girls are playing summer ball.  We started practicing this week.  Quincy of course, is finishing her freshman season and is debating whether to play this summer.  Preston and Quincy have lined up summer jobs.  We finished Religion Ed, but threw in year end concerts, year end safety meetings, year end state assessments and a bunch of other stuff in it’s place.  

4-H is also ramping back up.  Last night, we planted flowers at the fairgrounds.  Saige was excited to be dirty, as all dirty handed people were rewarded with a root beer float!  

Quincy had a couple of games at Garnett tonight.  She had a tough night at bat, getting hit by pitch twice, striking out twice, and being thrown out at first once. She also slid into third and somehow tore her (new) pants!   The batting might have been tough, but her night at 3rd was amazing.  She truly had a great night of fielding.  She is a good player!  

With everything that is going on in our lives right now, I am thankful for my mother, who is handling the meat chickens.  Thanks mom!