William and Maeghan had fun at practice. William was William, so he spent most of his time doing whatever he wanted to do. Maeghan tried to do everything but she will not be allowed to play since she is older than all the other kids and they go by age. Apparently, it does not matter if she is smaller than all the other players and cannot run as fast or kick the ball as well, she is older so if she wants to play, she has to play with kids her own age. I will try to keep her involved in the practices but I don't want her to be disappointed when it actually comes time to play a game.
The new coaches were pretty good. Not that they did anything different than what I was doing but they were better organized and seemed to make the kids happier. It was good. Guess they will be disappointed when I take over again, if that happens. I'd rather stay out of it, but we will see.
The kids are really loving the new car, even though we have not had a chance to let them watch the DVD players yet. I think I mentioned that the players had games in them but we did not know how to access or play them. I sent an email to the company that makes them and got a disappointing reply.
It seems the controllers are extra, which I knew, and it is the controllers that have the games in them, not the player. They also told me that they are $100 a piece, so $200 to get one for each player. That seems a little excessive. We will probably not be getting those, unless it for Christmas or something and even then, they only work with these players, so when we trade the car in, they will be worthless. Not a good selling point, if you ask me. William does not know yet and he will be really disappointed about it. You know, I have used the word disappointed three, now four, times in this email and have not spelled it right at anytime. Maybe I should pay attention when the machine corrects my spelling. And, I should refrain from using that word so often. Kind of lends a downward beat to the whole entry. Let's talk about something else.
Maeghan has been playing her clarinet. She can play several notes in a row now. Not that they are any notes that will probably ever be in any song, but she is good at playing them. I think she still likes it, so that is good. I keep thinking it will not hold her interest for very long but maybe it will. When she finally learns to read music, something I don't think they are actually teaching her, she will be able to play from her book. It is a teaching book but if you don't know what the notes are in relation to the clarinet, I am not sure what it is supposed to be teaching her.
I think we are going to have a couple of the grandkids over for the weekend. Not sure which ones but there are so many of them, we have to take it in turns, two at a time. That means three out of four weeks, we have kids over for the weekend, and when Juanita is doing foster care, it will be every weekend. Not sure when we get the time to have out kids at home to play with. If there are other kids there, they play with them and don't want to spend time with Daddy. But that is another story.
Looks like I am going to have to pay a lot more than I thought I was going to, to get out of the old lease. I thought I would be getting some money back, I was $5000 over paid on the old contract, but they have figured out a way to keep that money and not let me see it, so some plans for our anniversary have had to be changed. We were going to go away, just the two of us, but that does not seem likely now.
Not only will I be short of funds for a trip, but the mother in law and sister are coming over sometime in April. Not sure when yet but we can't make plans until we know for sure. Not sure how long they will be here, but the sister has to go back to work and I am sure the mother will not want to stay here by herself. Then again, you never know. She could be here forever.
We are now planning on going to the Royal Easter Show while they are here. It is like the Fat Stock Show I grew up with. A really big carnival with shows, and rides and games and lots of things to spend your money on. We have not been in a few years and the kids were too small when we went last time, so we are going to take them instead of going away for our anniversary. It should be fun, but you know how these things normally go. Too hot, rain, too may people, kids are tired, any number things that can go wrong with what starts out to be a good day. Juanita wants to go somewhere and stay the night closer to the show, we are about two hours away, but the price of the ticket includes free train rides to the park. I am sure the kids would enjoy a train ride. Then again, the last time we took them, we took the train. Got the earliest one we could, which sounded like a good, but apparently, everyone else had the same idea. I had to stand the whole trip since there were not enough seats and I had to stay with the pram to make sure no one took it. Don't know if I want to do that again but since you cannot buy a ticket that does not include the train ride, seems kind of a waste to not take advantage of it. Plus, I don't see driving an hour away just so we can be an hour closer to the show. Especially if we have the sister, mother in law and probably a dozen other kids with us.
Well, have to go now. Have to go pick the kids up from school. Been another eventful day and I am sure the kids have all kinds of stories to tell. They start swimming lessons next week, so that should be fun. William has taken to constantly asking questions as soon as he gets in the car from school. It is Mom this, and Mom that all the way home. Just glad it is never Dad. Of course, Juanita will kill me when she reads that, but hey, its no that I discourage him from asking me questions, I just never give the answers he wants.
Until next time
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