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The Bunch Get Back To A More Normal Schedule

 


What is normal? If you would have asked me about 2 years ago, I would have most likely given a completely different answer. Normal use to be doing school stuff, running around to various sporting obligations, and going on a couple of big trips a year. We still are mostly filling our schedules the same way, but we go out to do things far less often, choosing to spend more time at home. We also have not had a big cross country trip since the two and a half week Chicago trip that we went on in 2019. We have only been staying at state parks and hiking, which is nice, but we really miss going on farther trips. L wants to go to Florida for her senior trip and I am really looking forward to going somewhere different for more than just a couple of days. We plan to spend time in Pensacola just enjoying the beach and sightseeing around town. We really enjoyed it there when we went back in 2015 and had wished we had more time to explore. We only stayed a couple of days then because it was a quick stop before we went to Orlando. I can't wait to go somewhere again! 

This week we started back to school with the two youngest. Neither of whom were particularly excited about that. We also had a basketball game for the first time in two weeks. Both teams played really well and it was probably the best game of the season so far. We won by 2 pts and the game winning shot was made in the last 50 seconds. When we first arrived there, the girls and I were told to sit on the same side as the home team, which I thought was weird. The rest of our group sat on the visitor side, but they arrived a few minutes after us. I tend to be "boisterous" when I watch the kids play sports and the years I spent on the cheer team growing up really taught me how to use my lungs to project my voice. Let's just say you can hear me. I generally just cheer annoyingly loud, but sometimes I do get a little upset and yell, like the game where the entire gym listened to me yell at an opposing team's player for unsportsmanlike like conduct. They probably regretted sitting me in the middle of the opposing team's section because I felt I had I had to kick it up a couple of notches in order to balance out the home team's cheers. I don't want our kids to feel like no one ever cheers for them since every game we have is an away game because we don't have a home gym. This particular game I was not only louder, but more vocal. I cheered for the defense and other "normal" things, not just big plays and baskets. I had SEVERAL evil side glances, but I was blessed with the "I don't care what people think" gene and could just laugh about it. I could care less if people find me annoying. As long as I am not doing anything rude or illegal, I'm good. That's why it was so easy to do an embarrassing dance at the wedding. I was shocked when the cheerleaders started chanting "Miss it. Miss it." during our free throws. It wasn't just before, it was DURING. After we made both shots, I chanted back "Shove it. Shove it." Not my finest moment and I just did it once, but it got the point across because when I was chanting the rest of the gym was silent. After that they only chanted it once before they had a free throw and not during. When T went to practice a couple of days later the coach asked if the team heard everyone cheering for them. They answered that they only heard one person....T's mom! 😂

In other news, my new official granddaughter just tested positive for Covid and was sent home from school with a 103.8 fever. Apparently, the nurses  have rapid tests in the school now and test everyone who comes to the nurse ill. Their whole family is in quarantine for the next few days. C feels fine, but is taking it easy just in case and H has fatigue, but other than that my granddaughter is the only one actually exhibiting symptoms.  Basically, everyone around us has been ill with Covid or Covid symptoms lately. We are all fine. I guess we still have sufficient antibodies from 6 months ago when we had Covid. 

I hope everyone stays well and has a great week!


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