~Softball~

Well, last night we had our final game of the season. And, we actually won! 16-9. I was playing with a cold - well, congestion-, and before the game during warm-up, I jammed my thumb. It still hurts. So, the conditions weren't great going into the game. But the defense and offense just came together last night. :) We had our awards ceremony after the game, and I got the "Big Stick" award, in part to the grand slam I got a week ago. Then my coach asked if maybe I could be a co-coach with them next year! Anyway, softball was a lot of fun this year!

Softball

So far in this softball season, we've had five games. We've also lost four of them. It's getting very demoralizing because we are only losing because we have a few really bad players that always manage to botch up the simplest plays. The only reason we won the one game was because we were missing almost all of our "bad" players. My friend also hit 2 homeruns in that game, and I hit one, so we got 4 runs from just those plays! (Yes, 4 runs - there was a player on base when I got mine.) We have three more games, so once they happen I'll let you know how they go!

Mea Culpa!

My title is for the benefit of all my Latin scholar friends; for those who have not taken Latin, "mea culpa" means "I am guilty." And I am guilty of the sin of not posting very recently and so much has happened! Let's see; my last post was five days ago. Here's what has happened since then...

1. I had my softball practice on Friday night, with my first game on Saturday. Both went absolutely terribly. My coach has always said that if you practice well, you play well. The same can be said for practicing badly, and we did. Nothing went right; people goofed off, balls were missed, and this was just in practice. Game day was really no better. We got in some dynamite hits, but our defense was lousy. Consequently, we lost by 9 runs! 9 runs! It was utterly demoralizing. The good news is that we have eight games to redeem ourselves!
2. We had some great meetings with friends over the weekend. It was wonderful; I got to see some of my good friends twice in two days when I usually see them only once a week! All us kids invented a new game to be played on the trampoline; President and Assasin, in which one person is the president, one the assasin (who is on the ground - everyone else is on the trampoline-), and then everybody else is the president's bodyguards. It's like dodgeball on the trampoline with body guards. So that was a lot of fun!
3. My aunt and uncle are passing through this weekend, so it will be nice to see them. They are coming to pick up a dog a few hours away, but they'll spend a few days with us. I can't wait to see the dog; my uncle breeds purebred labs, and this is a new dog for breeding, so he must be something special!

That's the news from this neck of the woods! Have a great rest of the week, everybody!

Fridays and Weekends

Today was a ton of fun at co-op! The absolute best part was when we acted. See, in Writing Class, we have been making characters up, and then acting them out. We've done a lot of court cases, simply because they are good when you have a lot of people. Today we combined a murder at a zoo, with 1,000,000 dollars, and we got one great court case. In fact, it was so lengthy, that we didn't have time to finish it, so we have a week to wait impatiently and a week to think about it. So class was fun!

Mom also took me to the library today; I am starting to go through Christy by Catherine Marshall. I've been watching the Christy movies, so I wanted to know the real story that hadn't been touched by some movie director! So far it's good, though the movie left out some parts (sometimes I am finding that's good). Otherwise, the movie has been true to the book..... so far. I'm only on page 220 of 474! I'll let you know how it turns out. :)

Tomorrow is supposed to be my first softball game, but thanks to the weather, I don't think it's going to be happening. :( 100% chance of rain, but hey, anything can happen! My team is pretty unprepared-we've only had one practice-, so if the game got canceled, maybe it wouldn't be too bad. We shall see!

Well, that's most of the news for now; tomorrow I'll be baking lots and lots and lots of cookies for a get-together, so I'll try to post pictures of them! Until then..............

Back to school

Tomorrow it's back to school. I just counted the days, and since I believe school lets out for summer on May 22, there are just about 44 days of school left. So six weeks and two days, roughly; but of course, there are weekends which I didn't count, so it's actually more time than that. Did any of what I just said make sense? Probably not. Never mind.

I had a wonderful spring break. I got to bake, sew, go shopping, play with friends, and hang out with no school to worry about! Yesterday's softball practice went like a dream; I have a good team this year, I think, as well as the best of coaches. First game is on Saturday, and someone has to win the game, so it might as well be our team!

Today's weather has been gorgeous; I took Bono for a walk-which he loved-, and now I think I'll go read in the shade......