Saturday

We had a busy Saturday.
"H" had an 8:00 AM basketball game. For an 8:00 AM game all the parents are packing coffee mugs from the local QT and were noticeably quiet (none of us were awake enough to yell at our own kids). I did notice a big difference between the 8:00 AM parents and the 9:00 AM parents. The 9:00 AM game Mom's wear make-up and jeans the 8:00 Mom's have on no make-up on because they woke up at 7:45 and they all wear those nylon warmup suits. "H"'s team got spanked 5 to 21. After the game it was time for team pictures, this is total bedlam, you have mothers slapping "Mom Spit" on kids hair in an attempt to create some kind of hair style, you have Dad's trying to stuff shirt tails into shorts and you have kids that just want to run around and be left alone. 45 minutes of waiting for a 5 minute photo shoot, no wonder super models are always so pissed off.
After this photo shoot we had yet another photo shoot, the every decade or so "Family Picture". In our last family picture I still had hair, was sporting my 1980's style glasses, the kids were not yet able to talk back and "H" couldn't even walk. We were all dressed in jeans and a black top. This fashion combination was to create some kind of an artsy theme, but I think we looked like the von Trapp family from the Sound of Music.
We then dropped "Goose" off to baby sit our God Son for the afternoon. I took the remaining members of the tribe over to Fry's as it is time to start looking for a new computer (or as I call it a $500.00 Spyware magnet). Fry's is kind of like Sam's or Costco, you go in looking for one $15.00 item and you end up spending $200.00 on stuff that you didn't realize you couldn't live without.
We ended up packing it into bed early (10:00 PM which is early at Frick's World) only to be greeted by a powerful wind storm. We had limbs and twigs bouncing off the roof for most of the night, both cats in the bed, and "H" in his sleeping bag at the foot of the bed, "Goose" on the other hand slept through the whole thing.