Starting to wrap things up.....

 The academic year is starting to wrap up.  The older two are done for the school year; Sophia moved into her new and likely final college house over the weekend and I loaded up Ella and brought trailer full of stuff back home.  Golf is all done for Merrick and finished up his last meet taking 3rd on his team.  Grace has her last regular season Lacrosse game tonight and Shelley has been in town and will get to see her play too.  She will get a playoff schedule soon, her team is second seed so there should be a couple of home games.  Her basketball traveling team played in Appleton area over the weekend and she even found time to sneak a band concert into calendar....she has been running pretty hard and a summer "slowish" down will be good for her.  Both her and Merrick and gearing up for summer jobs at the pool and getting their orientations and certifications taken care of.  The weather is warming up and we are trying to get outside when we can find the time to enjoy a fire or work on the yards plantings and gardening.

Three for Four

The weekend brought us guests.  Bob and Nancy came to watch Grace's lacrosse tournament and brought Ella back for a surprise as well.  With her birthday upon us we worked in a meal at 1919 as we have done for the past several years.  Admittedly she picks that place because she can't think of another place to go. Either way it was perfect and we scored some ice cream cake on the way home.  Merrick had a golf tournament earlier in the week and found time to veg and warm up after our unseasonably cool temps that included rain and snow.  He was second on his team and happy with those results.  He passed on a few other tournaments this upcoming week due to tests and also that he wasn't that interested in playing in tournaments.   Grace has kept us running between lacrosse and basketball.  She often has overlapping practices and is finding ways to split time between them.  She is force to be reckoned with on the LaCrosse pitch and picked up several goals during the four games on Saturday.  Sunday we headed down to Appleton for three basketball games and she added several points to the board as well.  The last game came down to a double overtime and hers was the only game left playing in an empty gymnasium of 7 other courts.  The extra time was only required because the refs wanted to play too....leaving confusion and sourness in everyone's mouths.  This week will be more of the same, although less Ella and more band as Grace puts on the spring concert on Thursday.  Merrick past on to his next karate level. Driving himself over to test out....as I wasn't yet prepared.