Life As We Live It.....: Another Long Week….

from you know where! Not really, but yes…it was a really long week! Michael went to Boston for work again. The time he has spent traveling for this account has been really taxing on all of us. Whenever he heads out to Boston for this account, he usually leaves Sunday morning and comes home Friday night.

Our week was filled with various school, scout, soccer and piano activities. Jared has been struggling a bit in math, so when he comes home and we have to spend about an hour or pretty close to it, to re-do problems and that takes up a big chunk of time. Wednesday was probably the most overwhelming day for me….and it was hump day. As soon as the boys go t home it was 3pm piano, 3:30 piano, 4pm Scouts (Jared), 5pm soccer practice (Jared), 5:30 soccer practice (Gavin) and 6pm soccer practice (Scott); all soccer practices were at different parks and were held for an hour. I had Amy come paint toes with me that evening too at around 8:30, so I had to hurry and get dinner and straighten up…all by that time! It was very crazy.

We had the school carnival on Thursday. I think the boys had a great time. One of the activities the boys love is the little “train” they have that they drag with a quad around the grassy yard. Somehow, it managed to break while the boys were on and Scott went flying….in the cart (thankfully). New this year was a camel. Random, but fun. I know that during the Christmas season they have live Nativities, so I’m guessing that’s where they got ahold of one of those! It was pretty cool to see in person. The boys were a little skittish, but they ended up warming up it. They also had the "6th grade Science Demo team demonstrating a “wind vortex” which was really cool, where they aim the can with the vortex and a stack of paper cups and the force shoots it down.

Scott was so excited for this one to be his very first “real carnival.” He kept wandering over to the bounce houses and slides. They were definitely his favorite, Jared loved wandering from game to game and guessing the amounts in the candy jar, and Gavin loved flocking to any stand where he noticed they were passing out candy for an incentive. I affectionately call him “sugar tooth.” They were all begging for cotton candy and when I gave some to Mason, he actually just pulled a funny face! I was a little surprised! I don’t think he loved the texture! They also had a guy there DJing and once Scott heard the music, there was no stopping that kid from getting his groove on! He has some serious dance moves!