Weekend Recap

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

So this weekend marked a milestone for the summer. We saw the end of the summer activities: Y Sports Camp, Y baseball. There are 3 weeks before James starts school, and 5 weeks for Daniel. So kids, welcome to your real summer vacation.

James and Daniel both had good successful final games of baseball/t-ball. When I explained to James that he would have about 5 weeks off until soccer he decided he wanted to go ahead and play again. So I talked with the Y director and he confirmed that James' indoor soccer coach will be coaching again for outdoor soccer which is good, works out real well for James. We had discussed giving Daniel a break, figuring that starting 5 day a week pre-school would be more than enough to cope with. And we asked him and he agreed that he wanted to just watch James play.

Other than that our big thing for the weekend was working on the basement. We cleaned out the shed on Saturday night, then spent pretty much all day Sunday working on the basement. The goal was to clean out a bunch of stuff that was just creating clutter and do a little reorganizing. And we accomplished most of that pretty successfully. We have a lot of stuff to give away. And we moved some tools and supplies from the basement to the shed. And we will move some toys into some toy boxes in the boys room so that they are not sitting in the kids room just waiting to be opened up and strewn all over the basement. I got some good pictures for before and after that I will post up when the project is finished.

The thing is that James and Daniel have reached the point where they are comfortable just going downstairs and hanging out for hours and hours. And this is good, and we want to encourage it. But we want the basement to not be a disaster area as a result, which can easily happen when you turn an area over to kids. But I think we will have that accomplished by the end of the project: a fun place to hang out, but hard to destroy.