• Jan. 15, 2009 - Exciting things are happening
So far this year has been an exciting one for us. H sold a car right after Christmas, then another one tonight! It feels good to be able to get the bills paid. And we are so thankful to the Lord for His constant provision. I look back and am in awe at how He has provided for us at times! Amazing. So, it looks like we may get to take that trip to Disneyland here in the not-too-distant future. The boys are excited about that.
Last weekend I spent 3 days at a Swim Coaching Clinic, and learned so much. I took pages of notes, and now I am really looking forward to this summer of coaching. I have a much better idea of what I want for this team, and even for my own boys.
Tonight was the big Pinewood Derby race for cub scouts. Since H was out of town, the boys did almost all of the work on the cars themselves. Which I know this is how it should be, but it would have been nice to at least have Dad around to help align the wheels correctly. I told the boys that this would be a great learning experience for them. LV had a lot of struggles, mostly due to his lack of patience. He painted his car 4 or 5 times, maybe even more. At first he forgot H's tips on masking off a car when painting. Then he didn't wait long enough for the paint to dry before putting on his decals. After repainting it another time he got the bottom pretty wet. We set the car by the wood stove to dry, and he didn't realize the top was still wet when he turned the car over to dry the bottom. Of course the newspaper stuck to the top of his car, so he had to paint it yet again. He was taking all of this pretty well, but then put the wheels on the car, and the wood split off by 2 axels and the wheels would not stay on his car! He had had it at that point. But was still going to give it a shot until he tried to put the decals on again. The paint was still not dry enough, and began to peel off with the decal backing. Poor guy. The cubmaster was nice enough to let him race with last years car, so he was thrilled he got to race! I'm sure he learned a lot from all of this.
Anyway, on to tonight's race. None of the boys did exceptionally well as far as placement is concerned. But they all had a great time. LM struggled with his attitude a bit after loosing both rounds and not being able to advance. That is something he needs to learn to deal with is disappointment. He struggles with that. LV just went out and had fun. D won his first race, and lost his second. But he was given the best sportsmanship award for the secong year in a row. The cubmaster said that because he got it last year they were looking for somebody else to give it to, but D's sportsmanship was so far above everybody else's they had to award it to him. And they make sure they make a big deal out of that award. It is the second biggest award next to the champion. So it is very special.
Of course I did not get any photos tonight because my camera battery died. Grrrrrr... One mom was kind enough to take a photo of the boys together for me, so I will at least have that.
Hopefully I will have a new camera pretty soon. |
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