Marching On!

Much of the month of March was devoted to preparation for Emily’s play and Peter’s baseball season. Both began last weekend! We run kid’s activities concurrently! I will tell all about how I do it in this blog!
Wednesday evening (3/25) was a perfect example. I fed the kids an early dinner of leftover Shepherd’s Pie, which I thought was delicious and they thought was yucky. I then dropped Peter off to baseball practice, then drove crosstown to get Emily to her Seussical rehearsal, making a brief stop to purchase tickets for several friends, then back across town to pick Peter up from baseball, then Peter went on to Boy Scouts. The dogs came along in the car for the evening so they wouldn’t be lonely. During the Scout meeting, I walked them at the nearby park until Peter was done. From there, it was to the airport to pick up Kevin--hooray!--then back to get Emily from rehearsal. Because they had eaten their less than favorite dinner, I treated everyone to a burger from In-N-Out. Everyone was happy and full for bedtime.
Kevin has been a big help while home. Although he has homework to keep up with, he still finds time to do dishes, run errands and be the “techoguru”.
On Saturday, I sent Marv off early to a volunteer shift for thebaseball league in the kitchen, then the family came to the Opening Day Pancake Breakfast. I tried my hand at scorekeeping at Peter’s first game. Baseball is hard for me to pay attention to so scorekeeping is a great way for me to maintain my concentration. However, with the sun glaring and music blaring from loud speakers, this was the beginning of the migraine that kept me company the rest of the day. Peter hit the ball, stole bases and played catcher (he said his knees don’t even bother him.) He is quite a performer himself. From there, I dashed to work backstage at the afternoon matinee. The Seussical show has gone well and Emmy, as the Young Kangaroo, is the best part of it to me! She is maturing and learning so much with each role. The Theatre Alive group is extremely comfortable to work with. Having prepared a picnic in advance, the family brought it to the theater and we noshed together before watching Emmy’s evening show. Diana, Mac and Luke were sweethearts to spend a big portion of their day with us.
I can’t help but feel as though we’ve all accomplished quite a bit this month. Although it’s not perfect, the house is standing and layers of dirt and dust are being removed at regular intervals, the schoolwork keeps getting done, Marv juggles his job while searching for a better one, and I do my best at work, working my regular shifts and subbing for an injured friend, the school volunteer assignments--how many art docent lessons have I given this month? And Primary--did I mention I conducted and gave a sharing time lesson last Sunday? Wait a minute--I get it! I am not alone in my efforts. My family helps me. The Lord blesses me tremendously with health and strength.
Here are some other things I feel good about. I took charge of the director's gift for Seussical's closing night. Dana, the director, had admired a fuzzy blue and green scarf my friend Tami had given my for my birthday. Well, just say "knitting" and Diana springs into action. She and I practically dueled to see who could knit scarves for each of the directors faster and Tami stood by to coach us. I ended up finding wonderful pincushion flowers and spiky mums--very Suess looking--to present at the curtain and lots of other gifts and goodies from the families of the cast presented in big gift baskets.
I tried to make sure Marv was honored for his birthday. We all took him to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory 3/31 as he was out of town on the actual date (4/1). We gave him a cute card Emmy had picked out, a Blue Ray player with his favorite Disney movie, Pinnochio, to go along with it. For a better report, you should really see Diana's blog!