I just realized that's not a great picture of Cal. He really was good-looking (for a 49-year-old, or so). I'm attaching another photo.

Long time, no post

Soooo sorry for not posting. I really didn't think anyone read this thing. Who knew?
It's been a busy, busy summer so far. We've been mostly doing the baseball thing. Many, many baseball games! Our trip to Myrtle Beach was fab-u-lous! DS's team made it to the semi-finals of the consolation bracket. AND we got to meet Cal Ripken. He's just as good looking in person as he is on TV. Ooooh, those blue eyes!

Here's a photo!

I promise more later.
Susan.

Action Shots!

OMG!!!!!!!!! We spent the afternoon in the freezer yesterday! DS was the Bat Boy/Ball Boy at the Univ. of Maryland baseball game yesterday. The temps were hovering around 40, maybe! And there was a decent breeze, at least for a while. I don't think I've ever been so cold. He said he couldn't feel his feet. It was a great game. Terps won 16-5 against Hofstra. Got some GREAT photos.

Monday, Monday

Today was donation day. I almost forgot to have my donations outside for pick-up. I had to scramble to get them together. Got rid of quite a few things, including an old rocking chair from DD's college apartment. We weren't using it and it was just taking up space. Got rid of some clothes, books, games, boring stuff.

The weather is warmer today!!! But tomorrow it's supposed to rain, boo! I'm just praying for a warm-ish sunny day on Friday when we're in College Park for the Univ. of MD baseball game. DS is going to be bat boy and I'm hoping to get some good pictures. It certainly won't be fun if the weather is bad.

Here's another shot from the team meeting day. Oh, and that's Testudo, the Terrapin!

Susan.

The Old College Try

So last night we spent HOURS looking at and discussing colleges for DD and her BFF to attend. We (the BFF's mom and myself) are trying to map out a few local-ish schools to tour during spring break. We've narrowed it down to some Virginia schools (VA Tech-long shot, Radford-more reasonable, JMU-semi-long shot), and in NC (Western Carolina-shoe-in, and East Carolina-reasonable shoe-in). The MD schools (Towson, Frostburg, Salisbury, UMD-long shot) we can tour any time. DD would like to check out WVU, too. I think that's reasonable and it's not too expensive, considering it's out-of-state tuition. Of course the girls want to be together and they want to be on the cheer team for whatever school they go to. So that means not going to a "sucky" school that has "lame" teams, 'cause who wants to cheer for lame-sucky teams? And then there's Dad who wants her to attend an in-state school so he can make better use of our pre-paid tuition plan. You can use the money anywhere, but he wants to stay in-state. I'm not sure about that.

Today is SAT prep class for DD and maybe a haircut, and DS has a church retreat AND a 3 hour baseball practice that he'll fuss about. He does like to play baseball, but he HATES practice. It's a constant battle. I don't want him quitting BB because he hates practice. I want to try to make it up to the LSS today, but I don't have much hope for that. Maybe tomorrow.

On to dishes and laundry (how come I do the SAME things over and over and over again EVERY SINGLE DAY?).

Snow Day?!?!

So it snowed last night. More like it iced last night. We really don't have much snow, it's just a thin coating of ice. But now, 11:30 a.m., it's melted. However, they (you know, "they") say that we're going to get another hit later today. I guess that's why there's no school today. At least the kids have found something to do. DS went with his friend to the indoor pool until 2:30. Yeah!! DD went with DS's friend's sister (a/k/a her best friend) to the movies. Peace and quiet for three hours.

Jane Austin

Apparently I'm Elinor Dashwood! Who'da thunk it? Actually, not being as familiar as I should be with Jane Austin's works, I'm not really sure who Elinor is.

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