We are in the middle of the winter doldrums... Mac continues working in a "local" rotation that has him commuting over one hour each way. At least he comes home though! He is enjoying this rotation a lot. He likes the Big Surgeries. His favorite surgeries involve breaking the jaw and screwing it back together. He is able to do a lot of surgery "on his own" at this training site. He likes the Big Whacks (big surgeries) and the independence. February is his last month on this rotation... I am bracing for his next rotation- he's going to be doing far fewer surgeries and far more administrative stuff as he transitions into a chief position. Should be interesting...
The kids are in the midst of winter sports. Kate continues on the high school swim team, with meets every Saturday and practices twice a week. She also has year-round swim practices three times a week. She's logging lots of time in the pool. She complains about it all the time! She is also playing in an indoor soccer league this winter. Her team plays one game a week. She seems to enjoy that.
Steven, Isabel, and Luke are all playing basketball in the Upward league. The Upward league is a Christian league, where the kids are supposed to learn Bible verses and practice Christ-like sportsmanship. It's going well. Luke pretty much has no idea what he's doing on the court, but he smiles a lot. Isabel usually will make at least one basket a game. She still stops to blush and wave at the crowd after she scores points. Steven is running his little heart out on the court. He's very conditioned thanks to all the swimming, and he barely gets winded in a game while his teammates are huffing and puffing... They all seem to be enjoying basketball. I am not enjoying driving them in the cold to three different practice times! At least the practices are very close to the house, which minimizes the amount of time I have to listen to Josie screaming in my ear from her car seat... She also doesn't enjoy driving to and from practices all day long!
The kids also are continuing with their Winter Swim programs. Steven and Isabel practice three times a week now. If that seems excessive, they would agree with you! However, that's a fairly modest commitment to swimming around here. There are 9 year olds who practice daily... Luke has lessons twice a week. He's been introduced to all the strokes, but I don't think he's legal in anything but the freestyle and the backstroke. We'll see when the summer swim season rolls around though. He might surprise us all! Steven continues to enjoy swim meets. He has about one meet a month. He usually drops time in all events. He enjoys the competition, but I still think he likes swim meets most of all because he gets to log in a lot of video game time on his DS in between his swim events! His diabetes has been much better controlled at meets lately. We are starting to get a handle on how to manage it a bit better on "meet day".
Josie is full of life. She is a big talker. She loves dress up and playing with her siblings. Thanks to a lot of snow days, she's had a lot of extra time to play. She has decided that she likes childcare now, too. This means we can go to church again. She happily goes into her classroom, where she has lots of "friends" and she seems very enthusiastic. The teachers have no idea that she had a history of complete meltdown in childcare from about age 0 to 28 months. Complete meltdown. Now, at age 29 months, she is a very secure young preschooler ready to conquer the world!
She will also go to the playroom at the gym, albeit with less enthusiasm than when she goes to her classroom at church. She plays in the playroom, eats a snack, and watches cartoons. I get to go to the gym and exercise. I only take her once a week to the playroom, lest she decide she hates it there and then I'm stuck once again! I try to go in for a workout on the weekend when Mac is home to babysit, and then one other time during the week, again when Mac or Kate is home to babysit...
So, that's what we are up to. Activities, Mac's busy schedule, and trying to stay warm. We have had one power outage which only lasted about 5 hours. We were nervous though. It's too cold to camp out in our house with no heat! And we don't have a fireplace, so... Thankfully the power came back on. Right now I am hoping all the snow will melt away and we can start to transition to spring. But, February has historically been a Big Snow Month for us. We will see what happens!
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