Did you ever have one of those days? That was my Sunday. Tom and I have a running joke that we seem to break kids that are under our care. When Allison and Scott were little, we had a few mishaps with a couple of the neighbor children under our watchful eyes during playdates. We broke two of them-one wrist fracture and one elbow fracture.

This weekend we had one go to the hospital with an asthma attack. On our watch. We did not cause the asthma attack, but we keep wondering why we volunteer to watch other people's kids. Anyhow, we opened up our house to Allison's Ultimate Frisbee team. All 20 girls. The team travels each weekend to different Universities for tournaments and they usually bunk down at a house of one of the players. Allison has had the pleasure of staying at several different homes, and we thought it was our turn to volunteer. And so we did. We spent last week frantically cleaning bathrooms and making floor space to accommodate  up to 20 girls. Also planning a dinner and two breakfasts. Plus the shopping.

As well as celebrating Dad Bozyk's 80th Birthday smack dab in the middle of the week. (We actually had to postpone dinner until Saturday). I did a run by their apt with a balloon bouquet on Weds night, but Dad had already drifted off to sleep by 8pm. It is tough turning 80! At least he seems over his cold. And they removed the room restrictions in their building.

So Friday evening, we were lucky to have just 8 girls sleep over at the house. They all drove up together from school. They enjoyed dinner of pizza and salad(per their request), along with cookies and cheese puffs. EAsy enough. Then they were up watching movies and slept in our basement, our play room and the living room couch. On Saturday I was up early making breakfast-egg casserole and french toast casserole along with the usual breakfast stand-bys-cereal and bananas. They were out the door by 9am. They played all day and then about 12 showed up in the late afternoon to start taking showers and get ready to go out to dinner. Of course they were all sunburned. Our Spring/Summer has officially arrived. I was busy passing out the Aloe Vera gel, along with ice bags, bacitracin and bandages for a few banged up girls. (Remember, this is non tackle football with a frisbee). Yeah, no sprained ankles or wrists! But they did not win any games that day.

Tom and I had been out for an early dinner with my parents. We took Dad Bozyk out to Olive Garden, courtesy of Mike Bozyk, and then opened birthday gifts. We decided to hurry home when we heard all the girls were coming back to the house early. After they cleaned up, they all went out to dinner at Pizzeria Unos(see a theme here?). But not all of them came back right away. Late at night a few girls informed me that Allison had driven one of them to the Howard County Hospital ER. She was having an asthma attack. Oh great. Her parents were in New Jersey-4 hours away. The young lady was admitted to the hospital but hoped to be discharged in the early morning hours. I was waiting up to go pick her up and drop her off at another girl's house in the neighborhood(Allison's roommate). They were pet free and I did not want the girl to have any more issues that might involve our cat. Turns out the hospital kept her overnight, and then kept her until Tuesday morning! Apparently it was more than an asthma attack.

Our girls were up very early Sunday morning. Tom picked them up Einstein bagels and left for the airport to travel out to LA for work. I filled them up on fruit and cereal and they packed up and left. They had a few early games(won at least a game) and then drove back to Salisbury. I still had the hospitalized girl's suitcase and pillow. Her mother arrived at our house in the afternoon from Jersey. Very sweet but a bit overwhelmed trying to find her way around and of course worrying about her daughter. She was just glad she had been staying at our house(little did she know our reputation!). Anyhow,  she picked up her daughter's belongings and I offered our house if she wanted to stay. She thought she might stay in the hospital with her daughter, or look for a hotel. But she was going to insist that her daughter see a specialist when she got back home.

In the meantime, while waiting for her to stop by the house, I was trying to decide if I should drive about an hour north of Baltimore to pick up Scott at his Confirmation retreat. Apparently their bus broke down and they had to wait 1.5 hrs for another ride. Both Scott and the girl's mom were supposed to show up at our house at the same time. Scott opted to wait for another bus so I just had to pick him up from the church parking lot. Right before the girl's mom arrived. Never a dull moment.

Anyway, Scott survived his weekend away at retreat from Friday night to Sunday and he had a lot of homework to catch up on. Plus a letter to write to the Bishop due the next day. He also was back in school last week after an exhausting Spring Break. They had a wonderful article in the local paper on the Robotics Tournament held at U of Maryland over break that Scott participated in. Even his Boy Scout troop was in the paper this past week to honor one of the scouts that developed a patch for the Honor Guard used to conduct flag ceremonies. Scott's troop has a group of boys that volunteer for special programs such as activities involving the Wounded Warriors to act as Honor Guards during flag ceremonies. And now they have a National Patch to go along with the job.

We definitely stay busy here in Maryland!

Another Birthday Wish goes out to Sandra Bozyk who also celebrated her special day this past week.

Dad Bozyk turns 80

 Salisbury Frisbee girls in the House!