This weekend (6/26/15)

Nooooooooooooothing!  Well, unless you count the 324 loads of laundry we'll be doing after three bedraggled boys come home from a week at Scout Camp.  Sometimes I just want to hose them off in the driveway before I even let them in the house.

From the last update I received, everyone is happy and healthy and doing well.

This weekend (6/19/15) [edited to add hockey game because I'm a moron]

Saturday's 7v7 soccer tournament has been officially cancelled!  Apparently it was a mixture of apathy and weather.  So, no soccer.  Last night we went to the high school soccer team family picnic.  The freshman families were assigned to bring desserts.  I'm always irrationally hyper-sensitive about these things, because in the past I've encountered a lot of judginess about being a working mom and that crap just sticks with you.

Not knowing any of these people, I was feeling a lot of pressure to produce something decent.  Well, life gets in the way, and there was not even the tiniest chance that I could make something to bring.  So I did the next best thing.  I stopped at Fisher's on the way home, and bought two containers of no-bake cookies that looked like I could have made them. When I got home, I put them on a paper plate and covered them with tinfoil.  I was completely fine with perpetrating a fraud on Brendan's teammates' families.  Mike, who knows me better than anyone else on the planet, called me out on it immediately.

Then I focused the Crazy on my outfit.  Not too dressy; most of these people live 99% of their lives in athletic gear.  Not too slovenly; don't want to somehow get voted off the island on the first date.  I  ironed my shorts, people.  In the end, all three of us were an inadvertently adorable conglomeration of blue and white.

We went, it was lovely, and the entire dessert table was filled with nothing but plastic bakery containers and my lonely little plate of camouflaged cookies.  I genuinely wish I'd taken a picture, as a reminder that that's just how life works, most of the time.

On to the nitty gritty:  there's nothing really going on this weekend, except, hockey, which I totally forgot about when I wrote this earlier.  Natey's last hockey game of the spring session will be Sunday at 2:40 pm.

Also on Sunday, Mike and Bren are leaving for camp.  If you want the address to send letters, let me know and I will give it to you.  Nathan will join them on Wednesday for his very first camp experience!  I know they're going to have an amazing time, and I'm going to miss them like crazy.

The dogs and I will be eating a lot of cereal for dinner and watching not one single scary movie because I don't do well alone in the dark.  Insert memory here about the one time I called the police because I thought someone was breaking into the house, but it was really just my pet turtle bumping up against the back door.  Oops.

Fall soccer schedule

You can just tuck this one away for now.  Apart from some preseason stuff (like this weekend's 7x7 tournament, actually - more on that later), this schedule doesn't kick in until August.  And we won't have Bren's roster spot until the first week in August, so . . .

I think for now we can expect to see him on the JV Purple team, until we hear otherwise.

Date	Home/Away	Opponent	JV Purple	JV Gold	Varsity
Sat 8/8	Home	Louisville	-	9am	9am
Sat 8/16	Away	University School	12:00pm	12:00pm	12:00pm
Wed 8/19	Home	Woodridge	-	5:30 pm	7:30 pm
Tue 8/25	Away	Brunswick	5:00pm	5:00 pm	7:00 pm
Sat 8/29	Away	Anthony Wayne	4:00 pm	4:00 pm	6:00 pm
Mon 8/31	Home	GlenOak	5:30	-	-
Tue 9/1	Away	GlenOak	-	5:15 pm	7:00 pm
Sat 9/5	Away	Stow	-	1:00 pm	3:00 pm
Tue 9/8	Home	Copley	5:15 pm	-	-
Tue 9/8	Home	McKinley	-	-	7:00 pm
Thur 9/10	Home	Hudson	5:15 pm	5:15 pm	7:00 pm
Sat 9/12	Away	Walsh	5:00 pm	5:00 pm	7:00 pm
Tue 9/22	Home	Green	5:15 pm	5:15 pm	7:00 pm
Sat 9/26	Away	Perrysburg	1:00 pm	1:00 pm	3:00 pm
Tue 9/29	Home	Perry	-	5:15 pm	7:00 pm
Thur 10/1	Away	Copley	5:00 pm	5:00 pm	7:00 pm
Tue 10/6	Away	Hoover	5:00 pm	5:00 pm	7:00 pm
Sat 10/10	Home	Hoban	9:00 am	9:00 am	11:00 am
Tue 10/13	Away	Lake	5:15 pm	5:15 pm	7:00 pm
Thur 10/15	Away	GlenOak	5:00 pm	-	-

Other miscellany:

6/20 Jackson 7v7 Sat all day 

7/17 Friendlies (TBA) Fri-Sat all Day 

T-Th 7/21-23 Mini-camp am/pm 

Sa-Su 7/24-26 Dayton Friendlies Sat – Sun all day. 

Wed 7/31 Friendlies pm 

Sat 8/1 ALUMNI GAME Sat pm

Oh, right! This weekend! (6/12/15)

Sorry.  Still in vacation mode.  Not too much going on this weekend.  Friday afternoon at 1pm Nate has an exhibition hockey game for the end of hockey camp.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

My Aunt Cindi is in town visiting for the weekend, so we'll be trying to spend some time with her.  On Saturday, Brendan and Mike are working on getting ready for scout camp with one of Bren's scout friends.

Sunday, there's a hockey game at 3:50 pm for Nate.

This year will be the first year that BOTH boys will be going off to Boy Scout camp, and they'll be gone the same week!  If you'd like to send them mail, let me know and I can provide you with the address and the dates that they'll be down there.  I have some sewing to do to make sure that Nate's new uniform has all of the correct patches before they go.  He'll be wearing grown-up khaki now, instead of tiny blue *sniff*.  I would very much like to request that they both knock it off with the growing up.

Hockey game this Friday afternoon

This week Natey is at hockey camp.  He's having a grand old time, hanging out with his peeps.  He comes home, eats everything in sight, and then sits on the couch with a sort of glassy-eyed exhausted stare.

This Friday afternoon, from 1-2:30, they'll be having a game to show off all of their newly acquired skillz, if they can stay awake that long :)

He got a new jersey out of the deal (lord help us all), and will be receiving a DVD with video of him skating and doing various drills.  Not sure if we can post any bits of it here or on facebook, but we can probably pass it around the family for entertainment purposes.  It really is remarkable to watch him skate and realize that he's only been doing it for a year.

Hope to see you there!

Save the Date!

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, July 21 (time TBA).  The Troop will be having their annual post-summer-camp family picnic and court of honor to award the boys with all of the merit badges they've earned recently, and to recognize their rank advancement.  Brendan recently earned his Life rank, and will be recognized for that and a handful of merit badges at that time.  This is the last stop on the way to Eagle, and we couldn't be more proud of him.

This weekend (6/5/15)

Nothing, really.  On Sunday, Mike and I have to go to an orientation meeting for hockey camp, but that's basically it.