Home from Kansas City to Crazyness!

It was not a "family" vacation but none the less a week at the USSSA World Series in Kansas City was a good week for us to end the softball season. Unfortunately there are too many adults that are not in this for their kids, but rather for themselves. Those "parents" just about ruined the entire week. We spent way too much time on damage control from fixing what other people had underminded us with and left 10 & 11 year old girls up in the middle of the night in tears. Fortunately, our own kids were not directly involved - well Alex was because the girls were all crying and talking in the coach's room where Alex stayed with Drew & the other coaches.

Here are a couple pictures of the team that played. There are more on the softball website.

We got home and were happy to see the for sale sign and lock box gone from our house. No longer is it on the market.

My mom has a new story going on... In the last week and a half, she has received flowers from a guy (a senior DeMolay and current Mason, Shriner....) she dated in high school. He lives in Missouri and mom is planning his visit here next month and visiting his place after. It's all a lot to take in. I thought it was a trip having 2 pre-teens but now we're adding a 75 going on 16 year old to the mix. She told me on Sunday they had spent 68 HOURS on the TELEPHONE in the last WEEK! Drew promptly said all the things to her that she had said to us about doing the very same thing. At least we were in the same area code. The other night she was on the phone for 4 hours!

We are counting on the month of August to finally get the boat in the water, go camping, school shopping and start school. Oh and softball try-outs are in a month too.