On Duty

By Chris

Reporting for blogging duty as assigned. This is really hard to do on-demand . . . instead of when something hits me every three months. It'll be a lot more random until bloggin momma gets back here...

Weekend
It was strange ... and sort of nice . . . to not have soccer this weekend. Boy, have we done a lot of soccer! We took in the high school football homecoming activities. It's where Teresa and I went to h.s., and where our kids go \ will go. Nick was checking out the band pretty good. They have a blast playing cool songs in the stands and dancing during the game. He'll be in that band next year at this time. He's pretty naturally gifted musically, and it's his kind of crew too. Next week, he gets to play the National Anthem on the field before the big Friday night game with the big kids. He's excited. We're excited.

Book Fair vs. Soccer
Tonight presented an interesting struggle. Teresa is big cheese of the book fair at Ben's school. The major event is a family dinner \ program \ book shopping night tonight. As always, Teresa goes all out if she's in charge of something. Especially when it has to do with books and kids, her two favorite things (along with old people). She networked, promoted and prayed all over it to get a big crowd. But, Tuesday night is soccer practice. You see where this is going! I stayed out of it. The pressure eased a bit when more than 400 rsvp's were secured for the book night. We wouldn't put a dent in her crowd, so B will get to practice, then catch the end of the book event. And, I'll get to miss eating chili at school that came from Lord only knows where. Ben doesn't really need book night, because any kid of Teresa's has enough access to books to last a lifetime, and is made to read mucho often. Ben, of course, complies because they keep score on such things, and he is mortified if he is not on every best-of list that anyone keeps.