What Brings Them all Together?

The laser light does!  Even Laynie chases the little red dot like she is a puppy again.  I make sure not to let her chase it too much so as not to give her a heart attack or cause her to throw out a hip.  Josie and Nemo are the two biggest fans of the dot.  Luna acts like she is above chasing that ridiculous red thing, sitting...holding up her one paw like the little Miss Priss that she is but every once in a while she forgets herself and goes after it intensely for a brief moment.  Then...back to her poised perch off to the side... watching the other idiots attempt the impossible task of catching that irresistible speck of light.

Snowball

Jayke's class has two lab rats this year that they are experimenting on...which I am highly against.  Here is the pic he took of one of them.  I had to sign a permission slip for him to touch them in class and noticed there was a some what tricky question on the slip.  You had to write no if you didn't want your child to bring the rat home for a weekend.  I'm pretty sure Jayke and the school tried to slip that one by me.  He even brought me a pencil to sign with so I made him go get me a red ink pen and I wrote a huge NO on the slip that we were not bringing the little critter home to play with the three cats for a weekend.  I'm sure that would have had a traumatizing out one for us all.  Guess I need to start reading what he brings to me and tells me to sign.

Too Much to Overcome

These two poor kids.  All season this is where they have been.  Sitting and watching.  They get to go in for a few mins then he takes them right back out.  Finally today, the final day of the season, they are getting to play.  We lost two players from the team so now he has to let them play and you know what?  They are doing a good job.   Imagine what they could have done had they been given a chance all season???

Jump ahead two weeks...

Below is how we kill time during a five hour break in Marion for a tournament...

This tournament was even more heart breaking then the rest of the season.  Jayke ended up taking himself out and off the team for good.  When he sat all but 2 mins of a game he finally said he was done that if the coach didn't think he was good enough he wasn't going to sit and watch.  I don't blame him.  Normally I would tell him he has to finish what he starts and not give up but his coach gave up on him a long time ago.  He did more harm to him in this season than you can imagine.  I watched his heart break more and more on the bench every game.  We should all just be happy I kept my composure and just walked out before giving that ass a piece of my mind. We can thank Jeff for that since he jumped in his car and drove an hour up there once he heard what was going on.   At eleven years old there are way more important things than just winning.  The damage that was done to Jayke's self confidence will still remain to be seen but I can tell you he was broken on the way home.

He blamed his dad for not being there to work with him and teach him the game.  A lot of anger came out of him and a lot of things directed at the lack of a father he has been.  He won't speak to his dad now.  He said he can't make up for not being there for the past 9 years.  He is right.  He is starting to see the things he is missing by not having a dad around.  And there will only be more to come.

Thanks, UPS!

Here we are at the Pacer game...UPS gave Jeff free tickets.  Club level tickets.  They were really good seats, not in a suite but right behind and above the camera men.  We had no one in front of us and waitress so we didn't have to keep getting up and leaving the game.  I'm not sure if the great seat, no wait for the bathroom, or the VIP parking pass was the best part of this.  We had dinner at The Hardrock and then the game.  I hope UPS does this more often!  Perks of being the Shipping Guru's girlfriend.