Saturday Catch-Up

Ugh, I'm so bad about posting.  Sorry!  With Mitch being gone, starting a new job, and ball season starting, I'm lucky I find time to eat.  Oh, who are we kidding?  I ALWAYS find time to eat!

First off, the job is going really well.  I like it a lot and the people are great.  I feel like I'm getting a little more of a feel for it every day and am hoping to start taking on some other tasks to help the staff and to keep myself busy. 

Mitch has been gone for 2 weeks and as usual, the kids and I just go one day at a time.  Worry only about where we have to be today and worry about tomorrow when this stuff is done.  This is the last week of school before spring break, and while I'm not wild about them being home all day by themselves for an entire week, at least we don't have to worry about band and homework.  I feel bad that they won't be having much fun this spring break - they've spent previous years with their grandparents in Ohio and their grandparents in Kalamazoo - but as long as Jacob has his Xbox, I think he'll be fine.  I'm hoping some of Sara's friends are around so she can play with them during the day.

Jacob had baseball tryouts on Wednesday night.  He did really well, hitting all 5 pitches thrown to him, which he doesn't always do.  He had his first practice on Friday and another today and the team is the usual mix of kids you see on every team.  The fields aren't Milwood Fields, no raised pitcher's mounds, no grass infields, and the fields are 255' from home plate to the fence, so I'm thinking we won't see any out of the park homers this year!  And we all know the true test of a youth baseball program:  the quality of its concession stand.  Fingers crossed!  Jacob's coach wants him to pitch and catch, so we'll see how it goes.  I think everyone knows that I don't like him to pitch - it makes me too nervous to watch! 

Jacob's got his middle school math placement test on Monday afternoon.  It's to determine if he'll test out of Math 7 and then whether he'll go to Pre-Algebra or Algebra.   

Sara was accepted into the accelerated program for 5th grade.  It means she has to switch schools, but it will give her more of challenge than she had here this year (hopefully) and puts her on track to stay in the accelerated program in middle school.

Now that we know where she'll be going to school, we can start to look for a house for real.  I wanted to know where she was going before we spent too much time looking, because while she doesn't have to live in that school's boundaries to be in the program, she can only be bused if we do.  And with me working and Mitch's sometimes erratic schedule, we can't commit to driving and picking her up everyday.  And we don't have Jenni here to be our driver!  So when Mitch comes back, we'll be stepping up the house hunting.  Yuck!  I hate it personally, and Mitch loves it, so I let him do all the research and I just go with him and the realtor and say yep or nope. 

I think that's about it for now.  I know I am WAAAAAY behind on my book blog.  I'm hoping to get that caught up tomorrow.  I've read some good ones, so stay tuned over there.

Oh, and on Monday, April 4, my little brother Dan turns 39.  I think there's no longer a question of whether he is in his early, mid or late 30s now.  It's LATE LATE 30s, pal.  So head on over to his facebook or text him a happy birthday.  Tell him I sent you. :)