This week was back to reality after Labor Day weekend and really starting to dig into school and sports.
September 2
Avery and Shaun are always the last two awake, watching a ball game together, doing a crossword...super sweet that they both make an effort to find common ground and build the relationship.
September 3
Mornings are magical...I love how the early sun streams through the trees.
At work I got a call asking if we could take a kid who we've had on respite before. There wasn't time to take a family vote, so by the time Aiden got home from school, he had acquired a play date for the week. It didn't take long before they were doing target practice with Nerf guns.
September 4
A boy and a dog needed to burn some energy, so we went to the lake for 30 minutes.
September 5
What a crazy thing watching our eldest playing ball on the high school field!
One things I'm always acutely aware of when we have a new kid in our home is how different the little things are...different flavors, different smells, different noises, different rules. Everything is different. With that understanding, I try to find compromises when there are requests for things like juice/soda and videos game.
September 6
We dropped the teens off at youth group and brought the boys to Chuck E. Cheese. It had been years since we were there and we could not believe changes in their price structure. For our little family of four to eat one pizza and the boys to play for an hour was $70!! The boys had so much fun and Shaun and I had a surprisingly special, romantic time together. CEC...who knew?!?
September 7
Speaking of high school ball, I dropped Avery off for an away game at 5:30am!
This is our grand front entrance and our mudroom. I paused to snap a photo and breathe a prayer of thanks that its littered with evidence of active, thriving kids. Soon enough they will be gone and this space will be pristine.
Yay for sweet friends! These two go back to first grade. :)
First fall ball baseball game of the season and it was a beautiful day.
While watching my 10 year-old son and trying to entertain a very chatty and energetic 11 year-old, I was struck by the injustice of it all. My son, through no effort or fault of his own was born into a family that is stable enough to support and encourage him in athletics, so he gets to develop a skill and friendships and learn about teamwork.
Our respite child, through no effort or fault of his own was born into a family that is unwilling or unable to be stable enough to support and commit to something like athletics, so he sits on the sideline watching.
Its so wrong and so hard and the unfairness of it all struck me anew this week.
September 8
First soccer game of the season.
The evening ended with a neighborhood football game in the back yard.
"Through no effort or fault..." It is very unfair and interesting, and all the things. That's what I tell my kids about just being born American!!!! -- Love Aiden with his arms full of tickets!
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