Our firstborn son turned 15 on Tuesday! This birthday caught me a little off guard--when I started looking into driver's ed courses for Jay to take, he suddenly felt so incredibly old. Now that track season is over and there are only 3 more weeks left in the school year, that means that Jay's freshman year of high school is also almost over, which means that he only has 3 more years of high school left before he will be leaving home! Siff, my tiny baby.
It was another full-to-bursting week, with events on 5 out of 6 nights:
Monday, May 13th was the last middle school track meet of the season. Jeff hosted and timed the meet at the high school track. I coached during the meet and was a "ghost announcer" on the side, which meant I told the teenager with the microphone what to say and when to say it so kids knew when to report to the starting line for their races. During the meet I also ran interference between the teenage volunteers working at the meet and Jeff, who was busy doing battle with the automatic timing system. The timing system glitched several times and that along with inexperienced teenage helpers caused the meet schedule to bog down. The meet ended 90 minutes after we wanted it to, and Jeff and I didn't get home until 9pm. Our kids got rides home with kind friends earlier in the evening.
I was allergic to most of last week. Mother's day was on the horizon AND the week began with a 36+ hour windstorm that blew every allergen known to humankind up into my sinuses, wreaking a specific sort of itchy sneezy havoc. Then it got hot. Not the "we're used to 50 degrees so 75 feels uncomfortable" kind of hot. No, in the space of a few days, we jumped from 50 degrees and cloudy up to 90 degrees and sweaty. Silver lining: even though I was sneezing and feeling run down physically this week, Jeff started feeling so much better than he has in months! The longer he goes without getting Covid, the better he feels, and now that it's been over 5 months since his last infection, he is starting to have more normal autonomic functions again. He's pretty happy about it! I am too.
The last intense week of track season is behind us. April really came at us relentlessly, and now we have emerged into May, with only one high school meet per week from now on, and only one remaining middle school meet in the season. This week, however, we had three track meets. Technically there were four meets, but none of us had to go to the high school JV meet so I'm counting this as a three-meet-week, plus two days of high school parent teacher conferences that go until 7:30pm. Anyways, on Monday morning when I pulled out of the garage to drive Jay to seminary, I made the unpleasant discovery that we had yet another irrigation pipe leak. This time it drained into the low spot north of the barn on our driveway, creating Lake Jay for the second time this year. Jeff shut off the valve in question and I called the company that installed our system. A few days later, the lake in our driveway was mostly gone and the offending pipe was capped.
