Life just never seems to slow down.  sometimes I get to the end of the week and even after doing all kinds of things, I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing. 

The last two weeks have been really messed up for me. I took Thursday and Friday off last week for Ella’s surgery.  The week before that I took Thursday and Friday off for what I thought would be my son’s graduation and Ella’s dance recital. Honestly, I still don’t know what day it is…

A week out, and Ella is recovering quite well from her tonsil surgery.  I think the hardest part about surgery days for me is having to be the one to go back to put the mask for anesthesia on my child. Granted, Ella did really well this time. But there were a couple times when I was back with Andrew that just broke my heart to see how scared he was

She thought it was great that we both had matching hats. I will tell you this, though, that little bunny suit that they make the parent get in before going to the ER that is supposed to fit everybody… It don’t. I know I’m a big guy, but that thing makes me feel like I’m extra large trying to get into a small.

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As I said earlier, my daughter had her dance recital about 2 weeks ago. The one thing that they all have to have for the recital is their hair up in a bun.  To do that her hair has to be long.

Towards the end of school she was saying how her hair was bugging her and that she wanted to get a haircut. We told her that she had to wait until after the recital to get it done.

So after the recital and just before her surgery, she was able to get her haircut the way she wanted it. I think it looks cute, Even though it makes her look older than she is.

I’m really not sure what my son is angry about behind her in that picture, but it makes me laugh. 

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Last weekend was the final weekend of soccer for my son.  Honestly, I couldn’t be happier about that. You may remember I got suckered into coaching.

I don’t know diddly squat about soccer. I told them that when I was asked to coach. I had another guy who was coaching with me who was in the same boat. Luckily, we had a coach who was able to work with the two of us so that the kids at least learned something. I have to tell you though, I really felt pretty useless out on the soccer field.

The team that he played on wasn’t really playing games against another team.  It was a lot of basic stuff like kicking the ball, rolling the ball back, passing the ball to another player, and throwing the ball in for play.  Those things were accomplished with games like Simon says and stuff like that.

The coolest thing for all of the kids was that they each got a medal with their names engraved on it.  He couldn’t have been more proud.

I was pretty proud of him, too.

As for next year, I’m hanging up my coach’s whistle!