Lots going on this week, Boulder today, Vail tomorrow, the misses at the docs all day Wednesday, the spaghetti dinner Thursday and something else Friday before winemakers from Italy arrive Saturday! Then next week is worse!
The oldest missed getting into the swim league championships by .15 of a second yesterday. He was really bummed and frankly should have made it but they have parents as volunteer timers and the lady missed his hand touching at least 2 seconds before she stopped her clock. I explained that life isn’t always fair and that we were really proud of him as he had better times every week. Still not much of a consolation to a 10 year old that wanted to go to league.
We made it home by about 11am and then proceeded to clean the house. The misses started upstairs and I hit the basement. About 4 hours later we met in the living room as we finished up. We had some great king salmon with mustard and dill for dinner and then the boys headed back outside to play. Finally we rounded them up at 8:45 and we all hit the hay.
There was a show on tv yesterday about people who survived disasters like plane crashes, house fires, tsunami’s and other disasters. It was interesting as it had all these PH D’s on saying it does no good to try to appeal to people by scaring them in what the future might bring but rather to educate them on how to be prepared because somebody has to be the person things happen to. For example, while everyone agrees there are not a lot of house fires, it’s important to know that most happen between 10pm and 6am and at any given time there are 300 people in our country in one. So the point is to actually practice fire drills as a family such as deciding what to do, where you meet and how to get out. They say simple steps such as even thinking and talking about it can help you should disaster strike. Then they made the analogy to the economy potentially crashing and yes, recommended going out and buying extra food and water, ah ha, so there you have it! Don’t do it because you’re scared the economy will crash, do it because if by a small chance it does, you’ll need food and water to survive. Does this make sense? I don’t know but they say that people in general all have this “it’ll never happen to me” attitude. They say don’t be so sure as the people disasters strike never thought “it’d happen to me”. Take it for what it is, it was an interesting program as it dealt more with the human brain and how we think of these things. Nobody thinks it’ll happen to them but the point is it has to happen to somebody. In closing this was not about living in fear but rather in being prepared as when were under stress we revert to what we know and have practiced whether in our mind or in actual practice. Enough said.
Ok, I’m skiping politics today to give you all a break. It’s just so nauseating, I can’t do it. It’s almost 7 and everyone is sleeping. The boys will continue to go to swim team even though they have no more meets but today we’re giving them a break.
Have a good week and go do some summer or fall cleaning like we did, its a great feeling, we should do it more than once every 10 years!
God Bless,