Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
Plans
Nothing real big planned for the weekend, hopefully we will have 3 healthy children all weekend. The usual swim lessons/soccer game. But other than that nothing major planned. Maybe a hike/trip to the park on Sunday.
Kim had suggested possibly digging out and setting up the tent in the backyard, to see how big/small it is. She seems to think it is big enough for a family camp out, I have maintained that it would be too small for that. So if the weather cooperates we will maybe dig it out Saturday afternoon and set it up, not necessarily for a backyard camp out, but more as a test.
Sunday I want to take the kids to America the Beautiful park, and then either all walk home as a family, or at me and James walk home. Depending on the weather that plan may evolve, we'll see. This is part of my new goal of finding different free stuff to do on the weekends plus teaching James the joy of hikes plus working on my own exercise.
Politics
So this week I had thought about writing a long, heavy political diatribe about torture and gun rights. Especially in the light of all the many anniversaries that are marked in mid-April. But I finally decided not to. Realizing that I just don't have the emotional energy to write something like that, and then potentially spend time defending it. So in keeping with my attempt at down playing my political focus I decided to pass on it.
Sports
Last, I am very successful so far in keeping my sports addiction under control. Despite the fact that the NBA playoffs are now in full swing, with the Lakers one of the favorites to win it all, I have kept to my goal of not watching any games beyond some little drips and drabs. Plus this weekend is the NFL draft, and again I am keeping my interest reduced to what I can read online and in the paper, and have no plans to watch the actual draft coverage. Keeping it under control, that's the prevailing theme.
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