 We had a full weekend and it pretty well wiped me out! We started out Saturday morning with the Pinewood Derby. My son is finishing up his Webelos requirements so that he can cross-over to Boy Scouts at the end of February, so this may be his last Pinewood Derby. It's funny to me how intense the boys (and more notably their dads) get about their cars. Pinewood Derby cars now, Indy Race cars later. With the top eight cars finishing within a tenth of a second from eachother, my son was a respectable 6th. I have to share our first pinewood derby racing experience. Our son was five or six years old, and in AWANA at the time, which hosted an annual Pine Wood Derby. The kids were required to turn their race cars in early for inspection. We were under the impression that the race would take place at the normal AWANA time, so I was surprised by a phone call from another homeschool mom the afternoon of the race, asking where we were, and informing me that we were missing the derby and that our son's car had won the whole thing without him. My husband and son raced to the church where they were gracious enough to allow ds to race his car once, and then give him his award. Oops! Sunday was an even busier day. After getting a phone call about 7pm Saturday night from our worship leader asking us to fill in for him because he was sick, we pulled together the best service that we could and led worship Sunday morning. God blessed our efforts. It's always cool when He does. Then after church, we went snow tubing with a bunch of youth group kids and some other families. It was my brother's birthday, and we invited him to join us. It was only my second time tubing, and the kids had never been before. We had a lot of fun, and got back way too late, and headed straight to my sister's house to meet her and her husband and my parents for a party for my brother. I lost count of the number of times dh said, "We're crazy!" as we drove to my sister's house with tired, cranky, kids, and a hyper puppy, all the while completely exhausted ourselves.
dh and my little brother (he's ten years younger than I, the only boy after 4 girls)  This time I could not be accused of being grumpy, but my littlest one could! She had the biggest smiles coming down the hill, and then this face the rest of the time. She was so tired!  3dd6 had a great time being pulled around on her tube.  2dd8 had a great time palling around with this cutie from church!  and her beautiful little sister. They belong to these friends of ours.  A rare smile from 4dd5  |
