Spurred by Laura's e-mail asking for an update and the fact that I am tired of transferring "Make blog entry" on my list of things to do week after week after week, I am writing this post instead of grading papers about - ironically enough - procrastination.
As we know, basketball is a big deal in Kentucky. The high school Sweet Sixteen tournament is a huge deal in Kentucky. Scott County (Georgetown) traditionally has a fairly good team (this year Scott County lost in the finals to a private school out of Louisville.) Apparently so many Scott County teachers - and students - would skip the Friday of the tournament in order to watch the games that the School Board decided to make that Friday a professional development day for the teachers. That way the teachers and students could go to the games without having to pay for substitute teachers or having low attendance rates for that day. Crazy but true. And don't get me started on how most people don't want a second desperately-needed high school in Scott County because then the athletes would be split up across the 2 schools and we'd no longer be a sports powerhouse - oh no! Who cares about the 38-student classrooms, at least we have some shiny trophies!
Thus, last Friday E&M didn't have school, Steven took a vacation day, and I was on Spring Break (Zoe and Niki were hanging out with no place to go as usual). So we made it a Family Day. Steven and I thought Family Day meant the four humans would hang out together and be a family. Elizabeth and Michael convinced us that Family Day meant the parents chauffeur them around Lexington with one of their friends, in separate cars. And of course separate tables at Applebee's during lunch. So E's friend Andrea spent the night with us, and Stephen Jasper (M's best friend) came over Friday morning and the 6 of us went to Lexington (apparently puppies aren't included in Family Day). The kids played laser tag, ate out, and ran errands (thank goodness the parents get to drive the vehicles or that last one likely wouldn't have happened). Then E spent that night at Andrea's and attended a UK softball game Saturday, while Stephen, Steven, Michael, and I went to Frankfort to watch the GC women's basketball team in the national NAIA tournament. The women have advanced to the Final Four - we have gone to all the tournament games and will go to the game tonight as well (do not report us to Child Services for abandoning our children, I'm sure they will have plenty of homework to do to keep them busy). It is just so lucky that the tournament is in Frankfort, KY of all places this year. Michael had 3 basketball games this weekend and they were undefeated Saturday after 2 games, but then lost Sunday morning so that was the end of the tournament. I love watching him play basketball so very much. So that's what our weekend was like and now I will start grading those papers. Perhaps.
