Uncommon Sense
The Pirates play most of their home games at a local High School. 11 year old boys love to see high schoolers playing baseball or practicing. And, there isn’t much cooler to them than having access to a potential future star. This is a pre-game photo from last night’s game:
“So what?” you say. What’s so cool [...]
Baseball season is in full swing! Dude is loving playing for the 11/12 Majors Pirates. We love love love his coaches! Both of them are so laid back. I can’t imagine either one of them every having raised their voices. The awesome thing is, they get their point across and the boys learn a ton. [...]
Dude and Princess went shopping for Easter clothes (thanks Grandma Sue!). As you can see, Princess is much more into dressing up for Easter Brunch than Dude is:
I must say I’m proud of Dude. He actually went shopping at American Eagle rather than Kohl’s! However, I’m guessing I will probably regret his discovery of mall [...]
I always have to laugh because Dude has all these wonderful ideas for April Fools pranks - except, every year he forgets it’s April Fools and doesn’t do his pranks. This year, Hubby and I mentioned the night before, and Dude was still mad because he didn’t have enough time to prepare. I suggested that [...]
Dude brought home his class sign up sheet for 7th grade. He chose French, but he did not sign up for Band. I disliked that decision. Yes, I told him he HAD to try 6th grade band. He didn’t want to. So I let him not choose it. Then he ended up wanting to, so [...]
It’s been a couple weeks since I posted - even longer if you consider that I cheated by reposting my wedding day posts
We’ve been busy here in the land of Boedie!
Swim team is going awesome, and keeping us busy.
My Mom and Step-Dad came to visit us for a long weekend over President’s Day [...]
We had a couple good days of snowfall over break, which was awesome! One of the days, I loaded up the kiddos, some neighborhood friends, the dog, and the sleds and took them sledding. 6 people, 5 sleds, and a 75-pound lab in a Highlander is quite a sight to see! I love this photo [...]
Way back last winter, I was chatting with Dude about 6th grade and middle school in general. I told him that in 6th grade he had to join band . . . he had to do it for at least one year. He could hate it, love it, or just like it, but he had [...]
Hey! This is the first time I’ll play my trumpet with braces!
Wow! This is the first time I’ll eat lunch at school with braces!
This is the first time I’ll go cut down a Christmas Tree with braces!
This is the first time I’ll go snowboarding with braces!
This is the first time I’ll jump on the trampoline [...]
It finally happened . . . my Dude got braces. We went for his consultation on Friday the 18th after school, and he got his braces Monday the 28th before he went to school. When we left his consultation on the 18th, he said “Wow. I left school without braces, and when I go back, [...]