The Oldfield 6

Well, it has been awhile since I sat down to write on this blog but I figured it was about time to get back to it. So as I steal a quiet moment (who am I joking the kdis are locked in a room, haha).

I believe I last left off with D’Arcy getting a new job and both of us getting new vehicles. What a busy month May was. June was a little calmer, we continued with ball and by the end of May Braydon had started 3-pitch on Wednesdays and Soccer on Saturdays so we were keeping busy that is for sure. 

The baseball team has been improving alot from game to game and they are learning a whole lot. I have alot of good players on the time and they are all learning how to work together by the end of July we had managed to only win 2 games but the difference is scores was getting closer and closer, so the margines that we were losing by were getting less and less. I am very impressed by my team and think they have come a really long way, now we just have playoffs next week and then we are done for the year.

June also brought Birthdays, my middle son turned 7 and my oldest turned 9. Braydon’s party was the traditional party with games and back yard fun and even a building/painting session of different flying machines. Josh on the other hand turned in a new direction he had a sleep over, which was supposed to be him and 3 friends but by and over site of his it ended up being him and 4 friends (had to do a few last minuite pickups to make sure I had enough of everything). They had a good time I think, but didn’t go to bed until 2 or 3 am and then complained when the twins woke them up too early, hahaha, I told them too bad just means they get to feel my pain. ;) Next year maybe Josh and 2 friends but I am not doing that many again.

Also in June we found out that D’Arcy would most likely be leaving us for 6wks of the summer, so pretty mych the whole time. That was a drag but it was for work so we would deal with it. By the beginning of July it was a definite thing and I had to start rearranging my summer to make my life a little easier and try and decrease my stress. He was supposed to leave on Wed July 16 but on Friday the 11th while getting his work VISA info together they discovered that the government had messed up his passport and had him classified as a female, oops. Talk about stress level going through the roof for him for the whole weekend. On Monday he showed up at the passport office with new pictures and old passport in hand to beg to get it back in 24hrs, we didn’t think it would work without travel documents but it was worth a try (his work didn’t want to issue anything until they knew he could go 100%). Well they were amazing it didn’t cost him anything to get it done or rushed  and they even reimbursed him for the new picture, only downside is that it wouldn’t be there until Wednesday morning, so they delayed his departure until Friday July 18th. It all came in fine and the twins and I dropped him off at the airport at 2pm on Friday, couldn’t walk him to the gate though since I had to be back to pick up the older boys by 4:30 and with rush hour traffic on a Friday I didn’t want to push it. So it was a little sad to just see him leave but it was probably better then seeing him to the gate.

Time to deal with non napping kids but I will continue with the next week of our summer, our week at a cottage hopefully tomorrow…

By the way D’Arcy is still away so who knows when I will get back to this

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