Welcome to my new obsession. TENNIS. I love tennis. I started taking lessons a month ago, and I just can't get enough. It is so much fun. It's incredibly challenging, and so much to learn. I had no idea it was so hard. It's actually been quite humbling. I thought that I'd catch on quick and it'd be easy. Wrong! There are so many things to learn. All the different ways you have to learn how to hold the racquet, different techniques in hitting, punching, slicing, and placing the ball. Where you want to aim, the concept of where you are at on the court, and how to play doubles, and on and on it goes. I'm playing in a women's league right now and it's so much fun. I always play with someone new and there's quite a range of skill. There's women my age all the way up to some cute grandma's that can school me all over the court. And I mean that. There's a cardio tennis class I used to go to and a lady, Bonnie, was I don't know mid 60's, possibly older, and she was text book tennis. Everything was deliberate and accurate. It's amazing to watch that kind of talent play. So with all this love, I am now faced with which racquet to buy. This is not an easy decision. There are lots of things to consider and you basically have to test them all out. I have found one I love, which is fairly reasonable, and it has my name on it. I'm not sure how long I'm going to have to wait for it, but I'm hoping I can scrap up the funds quickly. I'm tired of having to borrow a racquet each time I play, plus the grips are a little bit big, because I have small hands.
Any of you out there play? I highly recommend it!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
For the Love of a New Game
Monday, March 24, 2008
Happy Easter!
Easter turned out all right. I was a little worried with St. Patrick's Day being so close to Easter, which by the way, I really didn't appreciate that. Easter should not be the first Sunday after the Full Moon thing. It should just be the First Sunday in April. That's my 2 cents anyways.
Spencer and I dyed our eggs Saturday night and it was fun. I was a tad controlling with the potential of mess at his every move, but we still had fun. 
We awoke to find out that the Easter Bunny remembered to come to our house. It was funny, Carter just ripped right into his eggs and gobbled down all 6 of them which were full of jelly beans. There was no waiting and thankfully no chocolate. Thanks Easter Bunny, you sure are smart! 
Our little Spencer is getting to be too smart. Before he went to bed he said he was going to wake up at midnight and sneak down to see if the Easter Bunny really came to hide the eggs, or if "you guys" (mom & dad) were going to hide them. --ohhh, I know, how sad. He's only 6 and the magic of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and who knows what else --is already not so magical. He's just too smart and logical for his own good sometimes. But there was no mention of mom and dad on Easter so I'm hoping he's a believer for another year.
We ate our ham, of course, with some other yummies. And I was reminded of how I actually enjoy cooking. Rob took the boys up for a nap, which left me alone, all by myself, in the quiet, to do it all without interruptions, pleadings of a snack, Carter's gibberish, Elmo's world, crashing of toys, football noises, or anything! It was so enjoyable! I can't remember the last time I really enjoyed cooking. I was able to relax and take my time instead of rush, rush, rush.
After dinner we took turns hiding the eggs. I hid them for Spencer, Spencer hid them for Carter, and around and around we went. It was really fun. It's amazing how good you feel when your children are getting along and actually enjoy being around each other.
It was nice to take the time to talk about why we celebrate Easter and to hear that Spencer understood the story of Jesus resurrection and in turn what that means for all of us. Church was wonderful and the day relaxing. All in all a fabulous Easter.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Our Green Festivities
Well St. Patty's Day was fun as always. We had a blast with all of our green. To start off we all dressed up in as much green as we had in our closets. Then, Spencer went on a Shamrock Treasure Hunt for his pot of gold. He got a real kick out of it. We put on buttons and stickers saying all kids of Irish sayings. We mixed up some green cupcakes with green frosting and green sprinkles on top....yummy Spencer did his best to "speak Irish" as he calls it, and I must say that he's vastly improved. Maybe next year he'll be able to roll his r's and speak Irish fluently. We ate sweet n' sour corned beef and hash with fried cabbage and Irish sweet bread the night before. And I must say that it was tasty! I was extrememly skeptical but willing to try this new recipe my friend gave me. It is definitely a repeat. For our St. Patrick's Day feast, we had a roast, green mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, more Irish bread, and of course our green cupcakes for dessert. I found out something interesting. Both Spencer and Carter ate their mashed potatoes. All I had to do was change the color. So for Easter we're having purple taters. We also made green ice cubes the night before to put in our glasses. Spencer thought that was cool. We read Irish riddles, Irish folklore and talked Irish the whole day. All in all, it was a great St. Patrick's Day. It was so fun to see so many people dressed up in green. There were even green enthusiasts at the gym, working out in their green shirts. Hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day. Now I'm scrambling to get ready for Easter.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
I tied Rachel!
I tried this yesterday about 10 times trying to beat my sister Rachel, who typed 89 words per minute, but I never could, so I thought I'd give it a go again today, & this time I tied her on my very first try, I thought I'd better just stop & accept the tie.
89 words
