It was a week we've been gearing up for! The girls had districts! I had some fun cooking planned with my class to kickoff our food science unit. And we got SNOW instead. An annoyingly small amount of snow for such a big response. School cancelled on Monday, Wed, and Thursday with full days on Tuesday and Friday (Friday arguably having the worst icy conditions--but yeah--who can tell?)
Ben was the only one to get out in the snow (except for my Buddy walks.) I got lots of future school work planned (math lessons) and compiled all our tax stuff, made shirts for the girls district team (which I had given up on doing this year but now had time for). We also got to have practice every day this week. That was a fun surprise (as conditions were much better by the afternoon every day.) We practiced from 1-4:30, getting done nice and early. What a novel idea--to be home at such an early time! (That's not happening this week--as we're hosting Rhinos two evenings and then Einstein practices start--so we'll have 2 practices.).
And yes, now this weekend we'll have the girls' district tournament. (Everyone else went ahead and ran with their tournaments this weekend, but not 3A girls!)
Yesterday Shorewood boys had a pretty good showing at their district tournament. If you don't look at the team scores. If you do you'll see that we took dead last. But if you just look at the sheer number of wrestlers we took (23 out of a possible 28, not bad), and the fact that 17 won at least one match--that's great for the team we had this year. We had 2 district champs! (One freshman and one sophomore). And we are taking 6 to state! That's seriously a win in my book.
It was a fun day. I took lots of pictures of the wrestling. Most of them bad. But a few were good. The boys are super into the "pin chain" (see around Emi's neck?) that was invented this year by Coach St. Louis.
