Ohhhh what a busy few weeks…
Well it has been 2 weeks since I last typed and man has it been a busy couple of weeks. I don’t think I can remember everything that has gone on.
D’Arcy started his new job 2 weeks ago and I think he really likes it, although he has already come home late (10:30 pm) one night, I have a fear of things to come. I will deal with it when it happens, be there done that before.
After my rainy day car shopping trip I went into my area car dealer (family friends) and told him what I had decided on for a van and to see if he may have any leads, no rush though. As soon as I told him what I wanted he handed me a pack of pages of over 300 vehicles, I got look through them to see the prices and make and models I might be interest. There was only 2 in this lot that were what I wanted. So he told me to come back friday and we would see what was coming up for auction the following week. On friday I got a list of over 80 vehicles I exactly want, all the same only differences were mileage and colour. It is a little hard to pick one or 2 out of that but I managed to pick 9. When I saw him on Monday we narrowed the field to 4 and then D’Arcy took one of those out. So he went to the auction with our price limit and our 3 choice, our #1 choice was one of the early ones up. I did tell him not to worry if we don’t get anything we can always do it again next week.
Then at 2:30 I got a call telling me that I had got my #1 pick of vans and that it will be at his lot that day or the next, it was there that night but it was my first ball game with Josh, I will get to that later, so I couldn’t go look before hand. The van did show up at about 5:30 and D’Arcy saw it first. After the game I stopped by to at least get a look at the exterior, it is gorgeous in prefect condition, sadly I would have to wait tell the next day to see the inside.
The next day we had appointments in the morning and when I went by the van was gone so I figured they were checking it out. Our friend called asking for financing info and if I could bring in the plate papers so they could transfer everything. So by the end of the day on Wednesday I was able to go pick up my Van. I was excited but sad, I loved my Suburban and this just wasn’t the same and I was loosing about 50% of my storage that I had before. I know I will manage and I am a good packer but not that good some times.
Anyway I ended up with a 2004 Pontiac Montana Extended with built in DVD, mileage was really low. The van is in amazing condition, I don’t think I have ever owed anything this nice.
So lets recap that is 2 vehicles purchased in just over 1 month, there goes all our summer holidays, but on the up sided I have enough money to pay for the campsite in Florida in February, (yes I am insane camping at Disney with 4 kids).
Now for Josh’s first ball game , he actually played his second one tonight. For those that don’t know I am coaching my oldest Josh’s Atom ball team, the team is made up of 90% new kids only 1 out of the 14 played last year so we are at a bite of disadvantage compared to the other teams. So we show up to our first game and the other team is huge, they look like most are in their second year of ball and I just cross my fingers that they don’t totally slaughter us. The kids tried their best but we lost, I tried not to let them dwell on it since they worked hard and were a little shell shocked but alot of them were upsest. We have practices Thursdays so I had a talk with the kids then about the game and not to be upset, they had done good for their first ever game. So that practice we worked on some basic skills and teaching them how to hustle, for young kids they really don’t like to move.
Tonight was their second game and by the looks of the other team we were a little better matched, so with my fingures crossed we started the game. We did pretty good the other team got ahead of us after 2 inings we were a few runs behind but then we picked up speed and heading into the last inning it was 12 to 7 for us. Only problem I had to put in a back up pitcher because one of the early ones had be hurt, I felt really bad for this kid as I hadn’t worked with him alot at the practice. He did good but the other team got in 10 runs so we were down by 5 and needed 6 to win. We hypped up the kids and managed to get in 4 runs, the kids were sad that they had lost but then I told them that in the last game they had only 3 runs compared to the 16 this time, that was fantastic and that information improved all of their moods. So in the end we lost by 1 but we hugely improved our game.
Oh, did I mention my son is on cloud nine because he got a home run from a base hit, thanks to an over throw from the first baseman, he had a huge grin on his face (previous times up to bat this game and the last he had struck out). I am so proud of him and amazed at how well he did. Although my assitant coach told the kids she would bring tim bits if they got a home run and we had a few so she owes them, I think I will bring some juice as a treat for them as well.
Also, I may be loosing it totally, I am considering playing ladies ball, it was mentioned to me and I said no but I am thinking of it, maybe next year when life isn’t so busy…… hahaha like that will ever happen.
I think that is all, although I didn’t write that I had a great Saturday Mothers Day with my Mom and Sisters, we did pedicures and went to dinner, it was alot of laughs and fun.
