First Reconciliation & Basketball Tryouts

Jonathan is in second grade and in the Catholic religion that means First Communion and First Reconciliation. He had to have his first confession of sins today and he was incredibly nervous. He has worried about this for months and in the last week has broken down in tears over it a few times. We have tried many times to explain that it is not a bad thing and it takes about two minutes. He still was nervous when we showed up at the church today but he was going to soldier through! He was second in his class to go, they gave him a cheat sheet to help with prayers in case they mess up (which he needed, too nervous to remember that prayer he knew before we left the house), he went in, knocked it out, did his penance, watched Patrick do his confession, and then left the church! I was so proud of him for putting his game face on and powering through!

Sami has not participated in any school sports activity ever! So I told her at the beginning of this year she needed to participate in one, I didn't care which one as long as she did one. She chose basketball, the sport she hasn't played in 8 years, but she is tall, maybe that will help. I waited patiently for tryouts to come up and finally they came this week. She gladly told me about them, which is a switch because every other sport she told me about them a week after, so I saw this as a good sign, she is kind of interested. We went shopping for the appropriate accessories, of course, then she tried out today. She had a great time, played in 5 of the 6 games they played and just had fun. She is excited and we are looking forward to finding out what team she will be on, tomorrow sometime, and it will be Varsity, JV, or Intramural. She doesn't really care which team or level because she had a great time and is looking forward to just playing basketball! YEAH! I am so excited, I have a child who is playing school sports and I get to attend the games and cheer her on! Yeah, I am one of THOSE moms!

To celebrate every one's accomplishments today we switched things up and had ice cream from Culver's for dinner and the beef stew that was in the crock pot ended being dessert!