Soccer

Today I was woken up by Tucker standing beside my head loudly whispering, "The phone is ringing, the phoning is ringing, the phone is ringing..." Finally I realized it wasn't a dream and clambered out of bed. By that time the home phone had stopped ringing and the Unicorn Kid song that's Ty's cell's ring tone started playing. Just as I reached the bedroom door, Ty emerged from the other bedroom and beat me down the hall to get his phone. It was Mark making sure that we had all survived the night OK. I got breakfast for the kids and apologized that they were eating at 8:15, a whole hour and fifteen minutes late. They didn't seem to mind too much. I actually think Coral was rather pleased she got to sleep in. For the rest of the morning, Bryn, Ty and I took turns showering while the other two played with the kids. Bryn played Tucker's Canadian Geography game with him and then I taught him how to play Slaps. After that Ty played Trouble with Tucker while I read some books to Coral (books that I had to read for Survey of Children's Lit. - what a great way to get homework done!). Later Bryn and I taught Tuck Dutch Blitz and then we ended the morning with Bryn, Tuck and I playing Skip-Bo. Mark and Terrie got back sometime during the reading/Trouble-playing time and then we headed back to campus (with most of the leftover pizza!). After taking Ty back to the dorm, Bryn and I stopped at our place to drop off our stuff and then drove over to Tim and Jonathan's apartment. We thoroughly interrupted Jonathan and his classmate who were doing homework and then Tim, Bryn and I went to the soccer field by the Greenway. One of us stood in the net while the other two took shots. Very early on, I was trying to stop a goal and slipped right into a muddy puddle. Even though we were all totally muddy by the time we finished playing, we had tons of fun. Now I'm going to get busy and do some homework. Soon I have to go to the Mac lab to finish my web design up for Tuesday. We'll see how that goes...