Wednesday, October 22, 2025

some road time...


To a small extent we have found ourselves on the road and chasing kids a little bit.  Amy and Grace have spent the past couple of weekends in resort towns (Dells and Shakopee) for Lacrosse tournaments.  Grace has been playing well for both teams, but both teams are also so very very short benched without subs.  So that takes a toll on the teams overall performance in during the weekend.  In MN the ref even found the team some subs from another team, just to help get their legs under them in the surprisingly warm October sun. She is off the next two weekends and then we head to the third state, IL, of the fall season for a tournament in the Chicago area.  Likely have to dress warm by then.  She has committed to UWL for next fall and will play for the Eagles, so that is exciting and takes some of the pressure off her application processes.  
Merrick had his first Parents' weekend, so I hit the road afterwork on Friday and picked him up in time for a late burger joint dinner.  He was feeling less than par and asked me to check out the big lump on his neck; clearly an enlarged gland.  Dinner didn't sit to well and Saturday morning found us in the the walk in clinic getting some tests.  Everything came back negative but he tired pretty quickly and has back in his dorm around noon to sleep until we met up for a Sunday morning breakfast before I headed out of town.  We did make the drive up to the bluff to take in the leave colors.  We kept in contact with him during the week and he seems to be healed up and is coming home this weekend.  It will be his first time back since college started so I suspect that will be interesting for him.