Heard...

"Mom, how small do you think the tooth fairy is?"

J-Mav and I were eating dinner tonight with his two best buds and their mommies... a Thursday night thing we do after soccer practice. J-Mav told me that he bit his candy bar (a mini candy bar that was in his Lunchable today) at lunch and his tooth got really loose. Before I could really even respond (because my mouth was full), J-Mav said, "uh, mom... my tooth just fell out."

I don't know how small the tooth fairy is, but between the tooth J-Mav lost tonight and the other three that are loose, I hope he/she has BIG pockets!!

Thinking...

Between the crazy busy past week at work and the MLB playoffs, I'm gonna need to sleep for a week to catch up on some rest!

It had to happen sometime...

So last night Keeper Boy had a game. He was in net. Against his team from last year (the first of four during the season). With his good friend K in net for the other team.

Keeper Boy didn't seem to be nervous at all. He didn't really want to play against K; he'd have rather played against the other goalie on the team. The one who displaced him from that team. But that's not the way it worked out. What are ya gonna do?

While the 6-2 losing score wouldn't necessarily indicate it, Keeper Boy had a spectacular game. I wasn't sure how he'd do, but after he made a great save on the first shot he faced (the first of 42... yes, that's FORTY-TWO... as opposed to our team's 8), I knew he was fine. He was ON.

He made lots of great saves and the general concensus was that the score would've been a lot worse had Keeper Boy not kept the team in the game. Usually when other parents say that to me, I smile, but don't necessarily agree. But last night, I did. He really did have a great game. I was very proud of him.

So after the game, what did we do? We brought K (the opposing goalie) home with us for a sleepover and to hang out today. I don't think they stopped talking except when they were sleeping.

Sometimes friendship trumps rivalry. :-)

And they're off...

A new category to keep track of my parents (M&D) and my mother-in-law (Gma G) as they travel. :-) I should've started this over the summer!

M&D left bright and early this morning for a quick trip north. (Aren't you supposed to go SOUTH when it starts getting cold?!) It involves a motor coach, some trains, and a river cruise. They'll be back on Sunday sometime.

In recent travel news, Gma G just returned from an annual overnight trip to Frankenmuth, MI with her girlfriends. She's now back at work. And M&D spent four or five days last week at a cabin in Southern Virginia, and 9/20 - 10/4 traveling (Savannah, GA, Charleston, SC, and Ashville, NC). Once they return from (snowy) New England on Sunday, they'll be home for four whole days before they head down here for their first visit since the spring. They'll stay with us for a few days and then head out to my brother's house for a few days.

Thinking...

... it sucks that I had to turn my heat on when I got home from work today.

Love it...

I think if you add up the number of days my parents have spent at their house since the beginning of the summer, it MIGHT total a month. They are always off somewhere. Over the summer they spent many weeks at the shore and also traveled to Colorado for two weeks. This month is so busy for them, I can't keep track. They got home on Sunday from a two week trip to Savannah/Charleston/Ashville and were home a whole two days before taking off again yesterday for a cabin in southern Virginia. Later this month their doing a trip to New England, I think. And they're coming down here to see us and my brother's family at the end of the month.

How awesome is that?!?

I am so happy that they're doing exactly what they love to do in their retirement -- traveling! Since everyone has cell phones these days, I still talk to them every few days when they're out and about. Dad needs a new cell phone, though... perhaps I should try to talk him into a Blackberry so they can get their email on the road!

Strep update

I am happy to report that, this time, we were wrong. We never received a call from the Minute Clinic yesterday, which means the overnight strep tests were both negative. So maybe my kids aren't as "not normal" as I portray them to be...