Monday, May 6, 2013

Random observations on my first day of freedom from school





Soccer practice being doomed again. I am failing all over the place at making soccer a thing anybody does anything but loathe with every fiber of their beings.  Today's version of events involved hail.  Its the hail fail.  Enough of that.




Carpocolypse Now?  You must mean Carpacolypse WOW!!! A few weeks ago I was raving that we needed traffic cops at Snow King and Virginian/Scott Lane.  Today I saw my dream in action.  And I think the only thing is proved is that its a good thing for humanity that I am not a traffic engineer of any sort.  Traffic was suddenly backed up East bound too? But I do think it was still a faster ride West?  Perhaps its just Carpocolypse (Or Carmageddon, I'm forgetting what it turned out to be?)  is just going to get worse.  I'm just planning on not driving in it if I can help it.  Its odd that I am in it at all.  The worst of it just unluckily coincides with soccer practice. Oh well.  Maybe the JHDP will make it work better as they go.  They were giving it a valiant go anyway and I suppose it couldn't get any worse?  Luckily my iphone is loaded with Bruce Springsteen music just for such occasions! 


Today's moment of adorable brotherly love.  

So I was out in front of our place cleaning up the leavings of the winter.  As I was pondering the fact that I am still cleaning up dozens of piles of dog shit every spring despite the fact that my dog has been dead for two years,  the boys were playing.  Sully had figured out that when he bear hugged Eli, he could lift him up and carry him around.  Ok that's cute and sweet, but were on pavement and Eli is already prone to bonking his noggin, so I put the ke-bash on that.  But Sully, in his usual fashion did not heed the direction and kept doing it.  Strike one, strike two... yer out! Off to time out he goes.  He takes it like a champ.  He's done the crime, he'll do the time.  Fine, fine, fine.  

Eli, in an act of solidarity decided he would join him and sat down defiantly next to his brother.  Where they proceeded to giggle for the remainder of the sentence.  


Saturday, May 4, 2013

Sully and the Boss

We went for a drive tonight and were singing along to songs as we often do n the car. Sully requested a Springsteen song called "Land of Hope and Dreams". It's one of my favorites so he hears it a lot and its got a chorus about a train so it's no wonder he likes it. He doesn't know the name of it so he tried singing it so I could figure out what song he was asking for. The song is basically about a train that carries anyone who seeks God, it's an inclusive kind of train- carries Saints and sinners, winners and losers, fools and kings and whores and gamblers, you get the idea-

anyway so Sully asks for the song about "the train that carries losers and horses"

 I love that kid! And I don't have to explain what a whore is just yet!!