The Pinewood Derby for Jake’s cub scout pack was today. He fared pretty well this year–1st place in his den, which got him into the finals. Unfortunately, competition was stiff and he did not advance to the next Pinewood Derby race. Even so, I think he was happy to have …
Jake has been wanting to play guitar for a while now, but his interest increased last weekend, when he scarfed my acoustic guitar from downstairs and strummed on it all evening. Our plan was to have him take piano lessons first so he could learn all of the basics about …
Jake signed up for a basketball clinic. It runs for 90 minutes each Saturday this month. He’s there right now, in fact. We have never been ones to push sports onto the kid, but we’ve always said if it was something he was interested in, we certainly wouldn’t hold him …
They did this thing called the Scouting Olympics (or some such thing) today. The kids did track and field type events–hurdling, jumping, sprinting, relay races, etc. Jake killed at the sprints. I slathered myself with SPF 55 sunblock, but still managed to get sunburned–in the part of my hair (no …
In the past week, Jake spent 2 nights at my parent’s house, 1 night at my in-law’s, and, tonight, he’s staying at his friend’s house. Sheesh. I’m going to forget what he looks like before long. Thank goodness school is back in session in a few days and he’ll have …