SLEEPOVER!

I am not a sleepover kinda person...chaos is not my thing. But If I were going to have more kids Aiden and Cathleen would be them, I am sure Patrick and Cathleen will end up together, and Aiden is just great with William. I love having them around. Recently they came over for a long awaited sleepover - SO MUCH FUN! Popcorn, movies, chess, lots of giggles, and NO SLEEP (sorry Nicole!). I hope we get to do a lot more weekends like this!

Champions!

What an exciting week! William's basketball team made the finals! This was a first for William, none of his teams have made it this far in the past, and we were all really excited. It was a double elimination and they entered the final game undefeated, so with Maggie, Uncum, Grammy, Pop-Pop, Tom, myself and Patrick present and cheering they played their hearts out on Tuesday unfortunately still losing 23 to 26.






Since it was double elimination, they had to be beaten 2x so off we went tonight to face St. Joe's once again. What stress! They were neck and neck all night they were never separated by more than 4 points and William made 2 shots, got a rebound and was fouled! No points...but he really tried! He has made such progress this year, thanks to some special pointers from some super sports moms and Coach Tom, he has really been working hard. We have now invested in sports glasses and some new gear , and it has made a difference in his confidence on the court. He even played hard enough to foul someone last game! When he came off the court he felt really bad, but I tried to explain that if he never ever fouled he wasn't trying hard enough. One foul all season was nothing to be upset about. And it was a reaching foul for goodness sake...like those lanky 8 year olds can keep track of their arms!

So in the end they came out on top winning by 1 point in the last 30 seconds (27-26)! It's sad that they can't win them all, but I am glad that they can win some! And we are so proud they won this one!







Anyway, as we were leaving, all the team members older sisters waved goodbye to Patrick...as always he had made "friends" with the other siblings there and the older girls love dragging him around.

Saturday is baseball assessments, and Sunday is Lacrosse evaluations...the "busy" season starts now. Baseball, Lacrosse, and Boy Scouts...and Patrick in T-ball...Spring has sprung!

It's been forever! Can you believe it!

I had to take a break... as much as I love my blog I needed to put it on a back burner for a bit while I took care of some stuff! I have to tell you I missed it. Every once and a while I even went to the site myself and felt disappointed that it wasn't updated. It's funny, I love it, it makes me feel good and it is good for me, but it is like exercise, once you skip a day..then another...then a week and you keep saying you'll get back to it soon..and here I am many months later finally kick starting myself. Thank goodness!

Well, the boys had their first snow day...we only had 4" and my friends from the Midwest are laughing at me for us getting a snow day for such a pittance...they got their day non-the-less. I wish I didn't have to work on snow days, not much fun for them, but they got out later in the day when daddy got home...Dad always gets to do the fun stuff!

looks like they had fun though! That's what counts, then they came in and I made hot chocolate with bunny marshmallow's in it. You have to love snow days!

Saturday night was fun too, we got to go to Tom's sister's house for a fun 50's party! We really had a lot of fun - and so did Patti! She made her singing debut, it really looks like everyone had a really great time! Sounds like it will become an annual thing so we are looking forward to next year. Next year we will remember to dress the part!

So hopefully everyone else has had a great couple of months, I am glad to be posting again, and I hope I still have friends reading, I loved getting the responses hearing about how everyone else was doing! Talk to you SOON!!!