After a long nearly 2 weeks of someone being sick and/or testing negative for COVID, life got a little back to normal today with the girls going back to school and Emily to work. I had a slow morning getting started, but by afternoon, I was feeling great and expecting Kate after school.
She was starved - FINALLY - after not eating anything for nearly a week, so we fixed her up with mac and cheese and a few snacks. She had watched the first 3 innings of the Mariners game at school. Don't ask me what the lesson plan was for Mr. Rooney, but he is not going to miss his Mariners. It was 3-2 when we first found the ESPN gamecast on the computer. Neither one of us loves baseball enough to sit and look at a TV for long, so we did other things and kept checking back. A few innings later, it was 6-3, and we were happy. We devised our own method of "watching." She called out the pitches and whether they were balls, strikes, or fouls - or HITS and the MPH. I called out the on-deck batters that were listed by last name and first initial, and we tried to guess the first names. Never did we get one right. The 3 Js, we called Javier, Jose, and John. They were actually Julio, Jorge, and Josh. I just treasured these interactions with her after not seeing her in so long. She is just so knowledgeable and knows so much than I do already. About baseball that's not much, but with the computers too. She asked me where she would go to customize my computer. After staring blankly at the screen, I suggested maybe the Start button, and she was off. I'm not sure of what I'll find tonight.
Emily kept us up with the cross-country meet. Gray wasn't on top of the world after being sick and out of school for several days and was just going to take it easy and run the route slowly, but she ended up coming in second overall. I'm not even sure of the school we were competing against, but I'm so proud of her. She just takes running for granted, and I hope she'll always be happy doing it.
Kate and I conspired to not give away the score to Ryan and Emily in case they wanted to watch it from the start when they got home, so if they happen to read this - fat chance - don't read any further.
We ended up winning 10-3, which is a big contrast to the low-scoring prior games I've followed. I even stayed up for the 15-inning game Saturday night, and that was exciting, somewhat.
It's supposed to dip down to 31 degrees tonight. Hoping it won't. Elise and I have been deciding which plants to bring inside and which to put in the garage and which to leave outside. Naturally, everything is at its prettiest the last couple of weeks, and it's hard to bring them in and punish them. We don't enjoy the cooler weather that much, but we're going to make ourselves get out and try to layer up and walk.
I'll be going to mah jongg tomorrow afternoon and maybe Thursday too. Graysen has her cross-country final Thursday, so I'll want to leave early if there is a chance I can make it to that. Not sure what town it's in, but I think it's Carnation. I need to see her run once more and also see another of Kate's soccer games before it gets too miserable to sit out there and cheer.
I've asked for some pictures of today but haven't gotten any yet, so I'll post some old ones I found. These have been either missed by me or forgotten, but they bring back sweet memories.
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