We have recovered from our Disney weekend and have settled back into life as usual. As you may remember, we have a little bit of an acorn problem. Mom is still sleeping in the guest room and the acorns are making an unholy mess in the yard. Mom and dad spent an entire morning just cleaning up the back yard and roof and ended up with an entire garbage can full of the darn things. The yard looked fabulous and clean. And then they went inside for 5 minutes and came out to the yard covered in acorns again. Fortunately, the front yard is taken care of by our neighborhood javelina. They make Ginger crazy but they are efficient cleaners. Grandpa Vern gave us a leaf blower for the backyard and although mom really doesn't like leaf blowers, she is making an exception as they make quick work of things out back. Since it probably isn't practical to herd the javelinas to the back, we'll go with the leaf blower.
I had my friend Claire spend the night last Saturday and Madeline came over in the morning so her dad could bike ride with my dad. We entertained ourselves by making mustaches. All kinds of fun!
Every year, Tucson has this amazing event called the All Souls Procession on the first Sunday in Novemeber. It is a huge "parade" through downtown that celebrates the lives of loved ones who have died. It starts with a huge urn that you can put names and memories of those people in and then the urn is burned at the end. There are big floats and as the parade goes along, you can just join in and walk. People play music, have signs and all kinds of cool things and about 150,000 people go every year. Mom has been wanting to take me for a few years now and it turns out that one of my friends has a get together every year for it. Everyone paints their faces and then we drive downtown and watch the parade go by. I thought the whole thing was pretty cool and maybe next year, we'll actually walk a little way in it with some memories of friends and family.
This past Friday was mom and dad's 11th anniversary. Can you believe 11 years?? They both had the day off and went out to breakfast and then spent the whole day running errands together. It doesn't sound like much but apparently, before I came along, they used to love just running around town together. They haven't done it much lately so it was really nice to do that again. Here's to many more errand running days!
Saturday was my last 2 softball games of the season. It was a little bittersweet. Dad helped out coaching this year and actually kind of liked it and is going to miss it. I pitched and wasn't awful- even had a few strikeouts. Our team was actually in it and we only lost by one run each game. That is a win in our book. Mom ended up having to keep score and about had a nervous breakdown in the process. I guess it isn't easy to keep track of everything going on the field, yelling at us to get ready to bat, answering our questions about how many outs, what the score was, can we go to the bathroom. To her credit, she only made two mistakes and one, no one except dad knew about.....
I have started up with intramurals again. I really liked basketball from last year and even though it was all boys, I decided I liked it enough I wanted to do it again. Yeah me! I also tried out for a solo part in our upcoming Christmas show. I'm just getting all kinds of brave in my old age and it makes mom and dad really proud. I've always kind of gone along to my own drum and now it's fun to see it in other ways.
Hope everyone has a great week!
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