Month: October 2005

Day 4:

This day will be pretty interesting and should be easy I think, at least the first half.

We all again slept in until about 8:30am, when I was woken by Molly asking if they should get up and get ready. I said sure. She also asked if she should make breakfast? I said sure if you want to. She asked how I made my eggs so I told her.

About 9am she came back in and said “Tell Maria to leave her shoes alone, and you’re eggs are ready”.

My mom is picking up the kids, and Michaels, non-girlfriend, girlfriend, and taking them to a play that Claudine’s parents are playing in. (not acting in, but playing in the orchestra). So I’ll be home alone until about 4pm. I should get to watch the Bengals by myself, which will be a change of pace.

We finish our breakfast and try like hell to get Maria to brush her hair, something she’s not at all fond of doing.

Then my mom calls and you can tell my dad is a little frantic about my mom, nor Michael not knowing exactly where this church is that where she is supposed to pick Jenny up. I thought all these details were handled?

No biggie we’ll deal with it.

Maria is currently brushed, and Molly is trying to find some hair pretties. We’re waiting for grandma.

to be continued…

After the soccer match and posting part II, we decided to just chill for a while. Maria was obviously a little over done. Somewhere in between tired from soccer, but still in that I need attention phase so what ever Molly or Michael did she had to make sure she did something even if it was mean to someone else.

Of course she doesn’t ever stop eating. I don’t know where the food goes.

It’s lunch time and Molly had been dying to cook, so it’s time for the dreaded Pizza bites. I think this is her chance to prove herself, that she can do a lot of the things her big sister Maggie can do. 🙂

We turned on the TV and watched what the kids always want to watch, ‘Walker Texas Ranger’, two episodes, and ate the pizza bites.

After that we stumbled across Jason and the Arganots so we (the girls and I) cuddled on the couch and watched that for a while. Michael played PS-2 upstairs.

Around 5:30pm I decided we’d been lazy long enough and we needed to close the pool. Michael and I took care of that. That took about an hour.

We debated what we’d do for dinner, Pizza or Wendy’s. We had to go take care of Cisco, and maybe just maybe take a trip to WalMart.

We ran to the barn, did Cisco’s stall and brought him in. I remembered the gift card I had for Best Buy so we stopped in there and looked around.

Michael wants a Game boy Mini. I looked at Camera stuff, and of course we looked at new TV’s

We found the Holy Grail of TV’s:

This baby is Plasma (yeah I know) but it had the best picture in the house. Built in HDTV tuner, Card reader for photos, build in HDTV Digital video recorder! You can send back your digital cable box, this has it built in. It’s only $4999 🙂

Anyway, as much as the kids wanted me to buy this, I didn’t. We escaped Best Buy without spending a dime and decided on Wendy’s.

Dinner was uneventful, and we headed home for desert only to find that we were out of ice cream 🙁 I’ll have to make that up to the kids tonight.

I sent the girls up for their baths and worked on some web stuff that I’m working on and watched the Nascar race, only to find that even though I recorded it plus a 1 hour overage, I still didn’t get the final 10 laps. Arrrgh!

It’s noon, so far so good.

Maria’s game was at 10:00am.

We all slept in until 9am, which is good and bad. It means that some of us didn’t get to eat breakfast, or enough of it. I made it, but some of the kids didn’t eat it.

We did get out of here on time and weren’t late (bonus), and Maria had her entire Soccer wardrobe with little hunting.

She played great, she continues to improve. She is an awesome defender.

There are some great photos of her in action in the gallery.

The other team had a little blond Pele, who was determined to slide tackle. He got tossed out of the game for the remainder of the 2nd quarter. Maria stole the ball from him a couple times.

In the 4th quarter she scored her first GOAL! It was sweet, she carried it 3/4 of the way down the field, into the box and shot!. Only problem was it was the wrong way… They were winning 4-2, now 4-3. So she was put back on defense. It was sweet though and she didn’t know any better.

There are no more practices for the Cheeto’s. They are good enough for this league. My dad asked them why they win so much and Maria said, “Because we have a big kid that’s real good and and almost big kid that’s pretty good”. 🙂

After the game we took care of Cisco.

It’s a beautiful day. I had to let him out. He went for the jail break when I went for the treats. All of his buddies are out and he knew it. So, well, he’s out. I hope this is a good thing. He seems very happy.

After that we went to pool store to re-buy the items needed to close the pool. We’ll see how that goes.

Currently Molly is fixing the dreaded pizza bites for lunch.

After that we’ll close the pool, and maybe, just maybe take the training wheels off of Maria’s bike.

It’s only noon-thirty, and we’ve done a bunch already. More later.

It started mid-day today. 3:30pm to be exact. I bolted out of work to meet Claudine at Cincinnati Gymnastics where she was dropping of Molly and to pickup Maria and Michael.

It’s here I am to say goodbye to her and Maggie as they take off for a long weekend in New Hampshire visiting family and attend a wedding.

That’s right, leaving me with 3 of our 4 kids at home; me alone to take care of and feed them on my own.

Well, not all on my own, I’ll have some help. I do still have to work you know 🙂 (Thank heavens)

The trade off at CGA was a mixed blessing; it was to distract Maria from the inevitable. Mom was leaving and she already told Claudine that she didn’t want her to go the night before. She didn’t want her to leave because, and I quote, “I don’t want Dad to be in charge of me”.

We dropped Molly off, talked to her coach about Molly having trouble with a foot, and that she has an issue with Severs.

Ma Ma Lich explained to me how to stretch Molly’s legs to start treating it as well as icing it 3-4 times a day. Something again I’ll have to do when we get home. Something else I have to remember.

But we pulled it off.

From there I had to run her to Maria 5pm soccer practice, wait for that to be over (1 hour approx.), then run back down to Fairfield, pick Molly up from Gymnastics, feed us, treat the horse, and go home and put some little ones to bed.

At the soccer practice, I took that opportunity to nap in the car for 30 minutes. I needed that.

Maria got her invitation to a birthday party and was hell bent on hanging onto her ‘card’. I tried to reason with her. That’s impossible. We have to have that so we know when you’re supposed to go. I need to put that on the refrigerator. Then I realized that I didn’t check with the coach to make sure her game time didn’t change, a call I’ll have to make.

On to CGA.

We ended up with 20-30 minutes to watch Molly. Maria wants to do gymnastics so bad she can taste it. She’s mesmerized when we’re there.

Molly got ‘released’ and we headed to McDonalds. I hadn’t been there in a while with the kids so it was time.

Look Claudine, no coupons!

After diner it was a quick in and out with the horse. His eye is healing (I think) looked rather funky tonight. The hole is closing but it’s pushing some of the pupil out more. I honestly don’t know how he closes his eyelid, but he doesn’t seem to mind. He’s a happy camper at the moment.

Off to home. I get a phone call from Claudine, she can’t be there yet, but perhaps she’s at her first lay over. Not so lucky. The plane was delayed, so they cancelled her flight, netting us two free tickets in the US as well as a free night’s stay at the luxurious Drawbridge Inn. They get to take a new flight in the morning.

We get home let the dogs out and I send the kids to bed. After about an hour of wrestling with Maria and her fears of Mom dying, I can finally get some work done.

Tomorrow my mom picks up the kids in the morning. 1/2 day down 4 more to go 🙂

So far:
Injuries: 0
Beatings: 0
Deaths: 0

All good.