September 2023

We have continued our start of the school year with balancing several sports for both girls.  An evening with nothing on the calendar is rare, but we knew that would be the case until mid-October when softball, basketball and cross country all ended their respective seasons.
Randy and Anna came to visit 2 times in September in preparation for his shoulder replacement surgery in October.

  It is always nice to have them around as Randy hangs out with Timber throughout the day and Anna keeps busy preparing food and doing laundry while we are at work.  My mom came to visit 2 times during September and we had dinner at Sahms, went swimming and sat around our firepit one evening watching college football.  Frank and Jan are also currently in town, so we all watched the Colts game one Sunday afternoon at the Dodson’s house.
With our grade school being next to Bishop Chatard, our girls are always trying to make it to the home football games. I tried to explain to them that this hasn’t always been the tradition with Chatard football. The stadium is only about 10 years old, so the social atmosphere of having a home football game is a lot of fun for the kids and the adults. There is free food, tailgates going on the parking lot and kids in every direction. 

            Sarah’s Things of the Month  

Sarah completed her kickball season and went right into volleyball. She has a consistent underhand serve and continues to work on her overhand serve. She continues to love softball and has even pitched a few innings. She usually hits well and gets on base most of the time.  Allison’s Thing of the Month  Similar to Sarah, Allison’s kickball season ended and she and her friends went right into volleyball practices. Allison enjoys volleyball and her height helps her at the net.

She continues to run cross country and enjoys the time with her friends. Allison has also improved her basketball over the last few months playing with the Jr. Trojans.  A few more items from this month: 

• Sarah and I were able to squeeze in going to one of Erin’s soccer games.Sarah didn’t remember playing soccer at the same fields in the same league, but it was fun to see Erin running around with her friends. 
• The girls and Debbie went to “CYO night” at Chatard for volleyball. Since both girls went to the volleyball camp this past summer, they knew several players and enjoyed cheering them on.
• Deb helped organize Grandparents Day at school again this year. She did a great job and everything went well. 
• Deb and I went to Lobsterfest at the Bassett’s house again this year. The weather was great and we were able to eat outside. We have started letting the girls stay home alone when we go out, which is good and bad. Good thing is that we don’t need a sitter. Bad thing is that we can’t really stay out very late, but I’m not sure Deb would say that is a bad thing!