So Hockey season is winding down with all the playoffs. We enjoyed the drama of the College Basketball Tournaments-of course since MSU played. We even wore our MSU sweatshirts out to LA. And we pulled up at a stoplight next to a guy who had a Uof M sticker on his car. I made sure he saw my MSU sweatshirt! He laughed and gave us a thumbs up. I even got a honking from another driver here in MD for my MSU bumper sticker. I did not recognize the driver, but when he went by I saw he had a Michigan license plate. Us Michiganders stick together!
Tom has had hockey fever so bad lately he couldn't stand watching another game on tv. He had to go watch a game in person. So off we went last Sunday night to Hershey Park in PA to watch the IHL team, the Hershey bears play in their playoff series. We had very nice box level seats-lots of great food and comfy seats. Scott especially enjoyed the ice cream sundae bar! And it was a very exciting game(lots of rough housing-ie fights). And the bears won which made it even more exciting. I almost didn't mind when the lady behind me jumped up and spilled her bottle of water all over me! And then we got to drive home in a massive thunderstorm-complete with hail. And Allison and I had already put in a busy day by driving north of Baltimore to sing with the GS choir for the Gold Award banquet. The Gold Award is equivalent to the BS Eagle award. My girls were working on their award prerequisites at the overnight. There were about 49 girls that earned their Gold Award this year in Central MD. This is a project primarily for High School girls. Allison and I enjoyed looking over the booklet at all the different types of projects before getting up to sing.
On Saturday morning I was busy with my garage sale-time to clean out all the kids closets. While I was busy selling stuff, Tom was busy trying to train Cookie on our newly installed electric fence. Poor Cookie was caught off guard and stuck over the electrified wire so I had to run and save her. I have never seen a dog jump straight up in the air. All her fur was sticking straight out. Needless to say the kids weren't too excited about the incident. But Tom and I told them it would be better than having Cookie squashed in the street. As a matter of fact, she was trying to follow one of my customers to their car when she got zapped. And after all that we dragged her off to doggy school. We are working on wait and stay while we stroll around the store. She actually did very good with this. She still gets distracted, but she is the best behaved dog in her class.
After our garage sale we were busy cleaning and cooking to have the neighbors over for dinner. We wanted to thank our neighbors for watching our house while we were gone, and we also invited some friends over that we keep missing since they live far away. But all that is going to change since they are moving back to our neighborhood. They used to live just two doors down. We are happy they will be much closer.
Friday night I was busy with Scott at the Cub Scout pack meeting-they put on a mini olympics. Tom got Allison to piano.
Thursday I had to take the day off to stay with Scott. Both kids originally had the day off, but Allison was making up for a snow day. So Scott needed company. And it was Take your Kids to Work Day, so Northrop had several fun activities and food available for all the employees that brought their kids. While the boys played and Tom taught a class, I headed to the dentist. I also had to get Scott to gymanstics that night, and Allison to an orientation meeting for GS summer camp. She is going to be volunteering at GS Day Camp and helping with the archery. She is pretty excited. I am just happy she found a ride home.
On Weds night I was rushing the kids off to the Resurrection 8th grade vs Faculty basketball game. Allison played last year, but I took the kids so Scott could sing with the school choir. They did the National Anthem and Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror at half time. Allison just wanted to visit with her old teachers and old class mates that were there cheering on their siblings. I think my ears are still ringing from that night. And a few teachers did not do too well physically-there were twisted ankles and torn finger tendons. The adults are getting older and kids are getting younger! Glad I didn't have to play!
Allison finished her third quarter in High School and did fantastic. Now the race is on for the last quarter and she is getting slammed. They have a lot to squeeze in between now and the end of the school year. Same for Scott. Which means we will be busy too! What a surprise.