Busier than Usual Weekend

I just realized that I forgot to post yesterday! I was so busy working and being productive that it completely slipped my mind.

We had a great weekend, but it was busier than even our usual busy weekend. Friday night was the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, so we went to synagogue for services outside in the Sukkah followed by a pizza dinner and the kids hanging out in the youth lounge. Movies at home afterwards rounded out the evening.

Saturday Michela and Harrison's soccer games were at the exact same time, so I went with Michela and Marlon went with Harrison. They both won, Michela's team 5 to 1, Harrison's team 5 to 0. It's a huge bummer, though, because although Michela's team is ranked first among the other teams, they are probably not going to be eligible for the playoffs because they have no "referree points," meaning no parent from the team referreed other games. There was a pizza party for Harrison's team afterwards because it is the end of the regular season, but now they go into playoffs. (they have plenty of ref points.)

Jacob was at dance from 11 to 6, as usual, but enjoyed his day there. he has breaks and all his dance friends are there so they hang out, buy and eat lunch, get Yogurtland, etc. It's a very social place.

Harrison went to an overnight retreat at the temple sat night for the 7th graders. They had a great time doing ice breakers and activities, watching movies, eating, etc. and then got up at 6 a.m the next morning to perform their first of 5 "social action" mitzvah project days, which was helping hand out water at the Lung Asso Walk. I made dinner for Marlon, Jacob and Michela and then we played board games, they practiced their instruments, did some reading and went to bed.

Sunday was an extremely day and I basically shuttled kids back and forth. Jacob and Michela had auditions for the Hip Hop Production Group from 9 to 11. Then they told the kids which ones made it and which ones didn't. There were about 70 trying out and they were taking 36. Jacob made it. Michela didn't. She was fine with that, didn't really expect to make it. Jacob would have been upset, but fortunately he made it. Some of the kids were pretty upset, though and there were lots of tears from those who didn't make it and cheers from those who did.

Jacob was then there for the rest of the day til 6:30 for an all day rehearsal for the group. They had a lunch break where pizza was brought in about 3 p.m and Marlon took over grapes I had bought for the whole group and said "hi" to Jacob.

I took Michela to her basketball evaluations (basketball starts in mid Nov) and then dropped her off at a bday party of one of her friends from school. Then I went home to get Harrison, who Marlon had picked up, and took him to basketball evaluations. He skipped his baseball game b/c he was too tired. We picked up Michela, stopped at the dog park because Midnight deserves some fun, and then went home. After Jacob got home, we had dinner, the kids watched some tv to relax and then went to sleep.

Not much else new . I have been working as much as I can on the work I do with Patti and also have some great ideas for ways to further my career as a writer, I just don't have time to do it all. Bar Mitzvah planning is going slowly, but it's going. I have a pile of paperwork in the office waiting to be filed and several rooms to straighten, but I'm keeping up with the daily exercise and doing the best I can to get everything done in each day! :)

I know I promised to put the Kids Konnection articles up. I'll do that tonight, hopefully. And I have pictures and video still do download. One of these days.....