The Somewhat Domestic Goddess: Always on the go

So you know you are a grown up when your weekends and spare time are no longer spent planning fun things for you and your special someone to do, but instead shuttling your child(ren) from commitment to commitment. It seems like all I do each weekend is watch Isaac play sports. I have most everything in the calendar in my phone, which syncs to my email and to Ryan's calendar, but I have taken to posting this on the fridge each week to give all parties a quick visual of each day.

Our days are jam-packed and we are always on the go. I honestly don't know how moms with multiple kids in various activities don't lose their minds. It's hard enough with just one.

Anyways, here are some highlights:

Isaac continues to enjoy baseball a lot. He is mostly in the outfield or occasionally short stop. He is getting better each week and really looks forward to practices and games with his team the Riverdogs. He likes to chew sunflower seeds or Big League Chew gum in the dugout to make himself feel like a pro.

I'm not going to lie, I find Little League Baseball to be mind-numbingly boring. I think Hannah does too. She always looks around with an expression on her face like "Oh man, we're HERE again? Let me fuss myself to sleep now." I like to watch Isaac, of course, but the games are so slow. They tend to start late, and go long. Yesterday Uncle Joe joined us for a game, which definitely helped pass the time for me and meant a lot to Isaac.

game face

Yesterday was also team pictures which was almost a mini-crisis when we could only find one of his uniform socks. We ended up driving to Dick's Sporting Goods ten minutes before the picture and picking up another two pack of socks. Hopefully it was money well spent as I seem to spend an inordinate of time before each game locating baseball socks. Isaac talked me into buying a special baseball with his picture printed on it. I can't wait to see how they turned out.

We have also been getting back into the swing of soccer which is definitely more exciting for spectators: action packed and time bound. He had tryouts for the new season of travel and last week participated in a 4 v 4 tournament. His team took second.

The Philadelphia Union were there which was exciting too.

In non-sports related happenings we have been able to spend some time with all of Ryan's kids. For a while there is seemed like we could never coordinate schedules to take them. We had a beautiful weekend day when we played in a local park and even had a random lady ask if they were ALL ours, which made me smile. Allison and Gabby love Hannah and are so good with her. We have them again this coming weekend and are hoping to take them all swimming with our family membership to the YMCA.

There has been a lot going on with Isaac at school too. My dad was able to drive in to be with Isaac on grandparent's day. They visited the book fair together and Isaac got two books, one that he picked out that was Star Wars related and one that my dad picked out about George Washington "one of Grandpa's heroes". Dad e-mailed me this picture of Isaac and his homeroom teacher Miss Hoyle.

I was also pleasantly surprised to check my e-mail and find this note which couldn't have made me any prouder:

This is Mr. Lamison, Isaac’s Social Studies Teacher. I am writing to you today to tell you what an amazing job Isaac has been doing in my class. He has been working with great focus and attention to detail. I am very proud of Isaac, and I wanted to take a moment to let you know.

Have a great day,

We also managed to get over to the Art Show one evening after baseball practice. Isaac had several pieces in the show.