We are now officially in the middle of cross country season. All three kids are running this year and it has been such a fun experience for all of them. Kolton picks up the girls from RMMS and takes them over to BHS and then gets all of them home. It has been so wonderful to have all of this extra time not driving kids all over! The days they have dance or piano he just takes them from practice to dance or piano. (LOVE TEEN DRIVER!) The only thing I have to do is have dinner on the table when they walk in the door, and they are so hungry they eat everything!
For the 2008 season we have traveled long distance for meets which is different than it has been the last 2 years. We spent our weekend in Boise and for the next 2 meets we will go to Salmon and Arco so we will be putting the miles on the Yukon. I guess the upside is lots of alone time in the car with my sexy husband!
We had a fun rainy weekend at the Bob Furiman invite. All the kids running were covered in mud. Kolton ran just after the rain stopped and it turned SUNNY and beautiful. The girls were not scheduled to run until 4:30 in the afternoon and just as the were warming up the dark clouds start rolling in and the the lightning strikes.......the girls did not run! I was not to sad about this because I did not want muddy girls riding in my car. I think they were feeling just fine about not running in a down pour. So at the end of the day we were all happy.
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NOW FREEDOM
Kolton driving has given me this freedom that I am loving! But I am finding that now my weekends are filled with my kids activities. I miss the days of little babies running around and watching Disney all day, feeling like I was trapped in my house and to take a shower was a great feat. We now live our lives in cars driving from one thing to another, and at the dinner table catching up on the kids. I am not working many hours so I am finding that I do have LOTS of freedom. I spent the first few weeks of school having ME TIME, breakfast with my friend Shareen (al her kids went to school this year), reading books, and catching up on projects. I actually think I might tackle a Levi quilt! I have been saying for years we needed one for all the cold sporting events, I think I have the time. The upside to all of this is how fun the kids are and how much fun we have together and how enjoyable this age is. It makes me sad to see how fast time in going but I keep hearing it just gets better and better. So far so good.