If you've never driven 3 hours in unfamiliar territory in freezing rain so bad that the defrost can't keep the ice from melting and you almost can't see a thing, and you run out of windshield washer fluid, and you then drive 5 hours in a near blizzard trying to get your 1992 Honda through the snow drifts, at night, against oncoming semi's creating a complete white-out and this after 2 days of making sure your boys are swimming the right events at the right time and hoping the other half of your family is having fun in a town 3 hours away from home watching 3 basketball games back to back and then driving back home in the middle of the night when it's 5 below zero - well, then, you just haven't lived!
Yes, this was our weekend. We split up - I took the little boys to the All Star Swim meet in Lawrence Kansas, and Gary took India and another parent to Mitchell, SD to watch Noah play basketball. The boys were so excited to be able to swim in such a prestigious meet and it was a great experience. There were over 750 kids swimming all the way from Colorado to Missouri. A few of these kids are some of the best swimmers in the nation. Super cool and we had a really fun time, except for the driving part. Meanwhile, back in South Dakota, our basketball teams lost all three games, so that wasn't as much fun.
But, they did have Noah's famous French toast and India's famous falafas, and watched 'Salt' - twice, and we had pizza at Whole Foods and watched 'Good Luck, Charlie' on the Disney channel. Oh, and an episode of 'The Suite Life on Deck' and 'Cupcake Wars'. We're so into good quality educational television viewing. Guess that's what happens when you don't have a TV at home and then you suddenly have access to one. Yep, you only watch the really good stuff . . .
Oh, did I forget to mention that Ezra competed in another Mathcounts competition last week and got second to the top 8th grader in the region? That was fun to watch. Those two went head to head, getting tossed these wack-a-doodle hard math problems and were all tied up til Ezra's nemesis, Jacob M. got two answers right in a row. But Ezra did win the coveted Mathcounts Cow by answering another wack-a-doodle hard question before anyone else even raised his hand. He named his first Cow - Newton (given to him by the head guy - because he thought Ez deserved it by beating every other person in an earlier meet) and this cow he named Isaac. Funny kid.
So, to recap - drove out of town to watch 12 basketball games
- drove 18 hours to KS to watch 2 days of swimming
- fought the cold and the snow and the drifts and the ice for a total of 24 hours
- two dentist appointments
- one eye appointment
- one math competition
- ALL IN ONE WEEK
And that, my friends, is how we get the 'busy' in Busy Brood. :)
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