I happened again. I got stuck. Sometimes when I get “behind” on the blog and I haven’t had time to create posts about important events in our lives, I feel like I can’t post random little stuff until I catch up on the missing stuff, because then it will be out of chronological order. And since I’m ALWAYS overwhelmed, I never catch up and then I don’t post anything until I snap out of it. Well screw it. I can’t catch up so I’m just going to override the perfectionist part of my brain and continue.
This is what happened today:
I went to yoga at the Y. I didn’t think it would be too hard, but man, I had to come home and lay down afterward. I broke a sweat during class and by the end I felt a little sick. I recovered with some breakfast, but my arms are sore. I really didn’t have any trouble staying “in the moment” during class because I was trying really hard not to fall down or let any inappropriate sounds escape.
This afternoon Aliya had soccer practice and it was the annual Parents vs. Players scrimmage. The siblings got to play too and it was general chaos with 20+ players on the field, but the kids loved it. I don’t think I’ve posted anything about Aliya’s soccer team here yet, but I’ve taken tons of photos of almost every game and they’re on Photobucket (if you’re so inclined, you can click here and you will see the links for each game on the left.). Here’s one of Aliya trying to score on Ben at the Parents vs. Players game:
After soccer we came home to get ready for trick-or-treating. Adlani asked if he could go out to the car to get his costume, and the next thing I knew…our neighbor was running in the front door carrying Adlani and yelling for ice. She had found him with his finger shut in the car door, screaming bloody hell. She was afraid to open the door and find his finger laying there, but bless her heart, she went for it and his fingers were still attached. I don’t do well with blood but I caught a glimpse of his finger and it had a giant dent in it. Seriously, his pinky was squished right down to the bone. Future-Doctor Nikki came over to check it out, we put ice on it and gave him Tylenol, and about 20 minutes later he was good as new. Ben said it was a good thing I hadn’t been the one to find him because I would have run back for my camera. Sorry, no photo.
We went trick-or-treating around the hood with the Pearce Crew – it was very chilly but the kids had a blast. I have no idea how I’m going to manage with all of this candy in the house. I’m thinking about eating as much as I possibly can in one sitting until I throw up, in hopes that I will lose the urge to eat the rest of it. Aliya was supposed to be a vampire but the fangs weren’t comfortable with her braces, so she paid Norah $3 to borrow her witch hat. I think Norah was still a (hatless) witch, and Adlani was some sort of action figure guy. We got his costume as a hand-me-down during the summer, and when I asked what he wanted to be for Halloween, he excitedly reminded me about the costume waiting for him in the Halloween bin (YES!). When we were out making the rounds Aliya sang a song she had made up for Elizabeth and I…something about a certain candy bar being made of “butts and guts and camels’ nuts”…I asked what camels’ nuts were and she didn’t know. They caught on pretty quickly that something was up because I was hysterical about the camels’ nuts. I’m sure they’ll be asking around on the bus tomorrow to find out. By the time we went around the block they were begging to go home, so we made one stop to see Norah’s teacher and Aliya’s soccer coach and headed home. It’s past my bedtime so that’s all she wrote.
