Thursday, December 30, 2010

Bowl-O-Rama

NOT GONNA LIE: We didn't do a whole lot of book work today. Why, you ask? Because, you see, the Holiday Bowl is tonight.

No, it's not a BCS bowl, and yes, the Huskies only had a 6-6 record this year but you know what? It's the first time they've been to a bowl in EIGHT FRIGGIN years, so today, we were all about getting our game faces on. We made two kinds of cookies and decorated them. We made "cowboy caviar," (which I highly recommend), we made BLT wraps, Chex Mix and bloody Mary steak (oh, so good). Rick, Kennedy and a couple of their friends came over to watch the game. Our hard work paid off and the food was awesome but by far the best part of the evening was the Huskies beating Nebraska soundly. Go Dawgs!!

A WATERY GRAVE: By pre dawn's early dark, Christian and I sized up the Sea-Monkeys. The news was not good. Either they were really heavy sleepers, or they were having the Big Sleep.

I wasn't ready to "call it" until the sun came up and we could take a good look.Or a bad look, as the case may be.

We came to the undeniable conclusion that the Sea-Monkeys were all goners.

"Their lives were so short," Annabelle bemoaned.

We talked about what might have gone wrong. My theory is that it got too cold in our house last night for them. It's about 32 outside, and it was probably close to 60 in the room where they were last night. If I had it to do over, I'd put them in the kids' room, where it was nearly 70.

The kit did come with a coupon for do-over Sea-Monkeys if your kit goes bad, so we'll send away for those. Hopefully we don't kill another batch of 'em.

IT'S A KICK: Though yoga, music, science and ballet were on hiatus this week, Annabelle did have her soccer class today. It's still just a class of two, so they get lots of personal attention.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines, CJ watched. He clapped when Bee scored a goal or stole a ball. He was also quite happy to play PacMan on my phone.


At bedtime, Annabelle started crying for no apparent reason. When pressed, she told us that it was because she only has one soccer class left in this session and she doesn't want it to end. We couldn't sign her up for the next session as, for whatever reason, the day is switched from Thursday to Monday and it's smack dab in the middle of her ballet class, which she doesn't want to give up, either.

We assured her that we'll find another way for her to continue her soccer activity.

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