I'm sure there are many of you wondering why I've been so quiet lately.  Well, we were busy taking a few trips around Japan and then last week, I ended up with strep throat.  Yeah, that was fun.  At least, it was myself and not one of the kids.  Thankfully, I got well enough to take our trip to Tokyo Disney.  We had a blast.  We've also took a trip to Children's Land-which is absolutely awesome!  I will be posting pictures of Disney, Children's Land, and the long promised pictures of Iwo Jima.

In the meantime, I was hoping last week to get caught up on lesson plans and reorganize the schedule again.  I am going back to my six weeks on, one week off plan.  It works the best for us.  I enjoy the week off and can focus on the house then.  We finished up basketball last week and have jumped feet first (I actually think head first) into baseball.  Daddy left again this week for another month, which is difficult with three kiddos in baseball.  Thankfully, since we live on a small military base, Trey can ride his bike to practice and that's one less event that I have to go to.  However, I've been informed that games start next weekend (already??) and so off we go.  Right now, we have practices Mon-Thur, Courtnee's games will be Friday nights and the other two will be on Saturday.  At least, Daddy will be gone for that and I won't have to see him turn purple in the face during the games.  The girls like to dance around, pick flowers, play tag, balance their glove on their heads-all which result in daddy turning rather eggplant and huffing because they should be playing the game not goofing around.  Apparently, they have developed the love of baseball that I have-NOT!!  My poor hubby.  I love football, hockey, and nascar (yes, drive fast and turn left).  I can tolerate college basketball and have no love at all for golf and baseball.  The Masters was this weekend and thankfully, I had a book to entertain myself.  (Hubby doesn't seem to like my groaning through the tournament. )  A few years ago, I totally made him mad when watching baseball.  He went to the kitchen and when he came out I was totally excited.  

Oh my gosh, you missed it-it was awesome.

What was it?  A home run?  Someone get out?  What happened?  My totally unsuspecting husband asks?  He's very eager to find out what.

A blade of grass in left field jumped up and grew three inches.  I saw it. 

My funny was not appreciated and I got dirty looks all night long.  

Oh, well.  I try and be patient.  Next playoff season, I'll have to start War and Peace!