Liam receiving his new belt. He is now a brown stripe.
Archive for June 2010
My brother recommended this book to me. I wasn’t interested at first because I don’t know the first thing about tennis, but then someone else mentioned what a good book they thought it was and then I saw it at the library, so….you should read it. He has led SUCH an extraordinary life which did not include a childhood at all. His dad…I don’t even know where to begin about his dad. Wow! He is a piece of work. You don’t have to know or like tennis to love this book. His is a story that will stick with you for quite some time.
It’s a good thing Colm is in afternoon kindy because he is still awake and it’s 11:17.
Every night I pack Liam a lunch and I pack Sean a lunch. Next year I will need to pack Colm a lunch, too. I am looking forward to NOT packing two lunches every day for a few months.
Trying to decide on a fabric for the Roman shades that will cover our sliding glass door:
These are on the bench at our kitchen table:
Colm and his teammate wait for their turn to play soccer.
Father Boyle is a saint on earth. His work with Homeboy Industries has caught the attention of everyone from Japanese tourists to the White House and once you read this book you will understand why. He is hope for gang members in L.A. He gives them what no one else ever has and the results are amazing. Not all of his stories have happy endings though and that is the hardest part. No matter how much one of these kids wants to turn their lives around sometimes their environment gets the better of them. This book will make you chuckle and it will probably make you cry, too. You will definitely learn a thing or two about who you are along the way as well. Read it. You won’t regret it.
Colm has been saving up his allowance for a butterfly net and today was the day he finally had enough money. Off to the toy store we went and LUCKILY they still had some. (I can’t imagine the drama that would have taken place if they had run out while he was saving up his money.) Anyway, he and I walked all over the neighborhood hunting down butterflies. Guess what? No butterflies. So I reached WAAAAAY back in my memory to my summers spent as a camp counselor at a science-based summer camp and remembered an activity we did with the kids. They each got a butterfly net and ran through the meadow with the net in the tall grass. They always came back with plenty of insects to study. So, we have several empty lots in our area and the way it has been raining lately the weeds on those lots are starting to resemble the long grasses of a meadow. It worked today to. We didn’t find tons of insects, but he caught plenty. Maybe we’ll find some butterflies tomorrow.
Liam has been a blue belt for the past six months. He missed testing right before we moved and then it took us a while to find a TKD place we liked here, so he missed testing again. Today he FINALLY got to test. He did a great job and I am so glad he doesn’t have to practice his blue belt form any more. I doubt he will ever forget it he has done it so many times.
Kicking
Form
Breaking a board with his elbow.
(Project 365-6/3/10)
He actually gets his new belt next week during class. 🙂