What a weekend....now I need to go to work to recoop!

Thursday I had gone skiing at Jay Peak, that night Zumba with the Brownies, Friday I worked so I wasn't real rested for my weekend to begin with.

Bright and early 7:30a.m. Saturday, we (My two older boys and myself along with a few of their friends) left for Hinesburg.  They were competing in O.M. (Odyssey of the Mind).  It was going to be a very long day and the gorgeous weather outside made it torture to be inside.  My oldest sons group went early in the morning.  They have to perform a long term problem and a spontaneous problem.  The long term problem was "Food Court - healthy vs. unhealthy foods".  That went well.  They had their spontaneous problem, which no one can watch or talk about until after the days event.  Then they were completely done for the day.  So he and his friends went out to play football and soak up the beautiful weather.  I on the other hand was trying to catch all the kids performances from our town.  We had 4 groups competing, all with a different problem.  I then caught another group performing their version of the problem; Nature Trail.  And then on to my middle son's group with the problem; Columns. 

That morning they had watch another school and realized at that time they were suppose to have a performance to go on with their building of the columns.  OMG ~ talk about stressed, I felt bad for their coach.  They pulled a quick skit together without any props.  When it came time to put their column structures up, they couldn't get them to stand or support the base.  They did a fabulous job keeping it together though!  And the judges were awesome.  Rather than just eliminating them and sending them on their way they gave them positive feedback and made them still enthusiastic to give it another try next year! 

We watched the last problem around 2:45pm while my son's group did his spontaneous and then we all headed for an early supper in Williston at Ponderosa.  It gave the kids a chance to unwind, goof off with their jello, and us parents/coaches a chance to unwind as well.  We went back for the award ceremony which was extremely long and drawn out.  Back home finely at 8:30pm.

It wasn't a physically exhausting day, but it certainly was mentally.  It was torture staying indoors during an absolutely beautiful day.  Knowing Larry was home tapping trees all by himself made me feel guilty!

Next morning...again a spectacularly gorgeous day!  Great day to go skiing at the mountain.  My daughters Brownie troop were all going up to earn a badge.  Only thing was, the rest of girls all knew how to ski already.  I spent some of the morning trying to teach my daughter to ski.  It's funny in past years I've taught alot of other kids to ski when their parents couldn't simply because of head butting.  Never with my three boys did I ever have that problem.  I taught the younger two boys no problem but my daughter.... I can't stand whining!  Thank goodness for her Brownie Leader coming over and offering to teach her while I go off with her daughter.  I did a couple runs with her daughter and my youngest son.  We checked back in just before 11:00am and my daughter was skiing pretty good; in control, turning, still falling a bit, but skiing.  So we broke for lunch and right after lunch we hit the chairlift!  The first run done, as my son put it "She'd lost her confidence" and fell quite a bit, again her brownie leader to the rescue!  The next run was much better.  The last two runs it was just she and I.  She was awesome!  She didn't fall once!!!!!  We left around 2pm and headed home to clean house, go to the sugarhouse and get ready for another week of school/work. 

Bottom line.......... I slept very well last night!!!!!