Category: Family

It’s noon, so far so good.

Maria’s game was at 10:00am.

We all slept in until 9am, which is good and bad. It means that some of us didn’t get to eat breakfast, or enough of it. I made it, but some of the kids didn’t eat it.

We did get out of here on time and weren’t late (bonus), and Maria had her entire Soccer wardrobe with little hunting.

She played great, she continues to improve. She is an awesome defender.

There are some great photos of her in action in the gallery.

The other team had a little blond Pele, who was determined to slide tackle. He got tossed out of the game for the remainder of the 2nd quarter. Maria stole the ball from him a couple times.

In the 4th quarter she scored her first GOAL! It was sweet, she carried it 3/4 of the way down the field, into the box and shot!. Only problem was it was the wrong way… They were winning 4-2, now 4-3. So she was put back on defense. It was sweet though and she didn’t know any better.

There are no more practices for the Cheeto’s. They are good enough for this league. My dad asked them why they win so much and Maria said, “Because we have a big kid that’s real good and and almost big kid that’s pretty good”. 🙂

After the game we took care of Cisco.

It’s a beautiful day. I had to let him out. He went for the jail break when I went for the treats. All of his buddies are out and he knew it. So, well, he’s out. I hope this is a good thing. He seems very happy.

After that we went to pool store to re-buy the items needed to close the pool. We’ll see how that goes.

Currently Molly is fixing the dreaded pizza bites for lunch.

After that we’ll close the pool, and maybe, just maybe take the training wheels off of Maria’s bike.

It’s only noon-thirty, and we’ve done a bunch already. More later.

It started mid-day today. 3:30pm to be exact. I bolted out of work to meet Claudine at Cincinnati Gymnastics where she was dropping of Molly and to pickup Maria and Michael.

It’s here I am to say goodbye to her and Maggie as they take off for a long weekend in New Hampshire visiting family and attend a wedding.

That’s right, leaving me with 3 of our 4 kids at home; me alone to take care of and feed them on my own.

Well, not all on my own, I’ll have some help. I do still have to work you know 🙂 (Thank heavens)

The trade off at CGA was a mixed blessing; it was to distract Maria from the inevitable. Mom was leaving and she already told Claudine that she didn’t want her to go the night before. She didn’t want her to leave because, and I quote, “I don’t want Dad to be in charge of me”.

We dropped Molly off, talked to her coach about Molly having trouble with a foot, and that she has an issue with Severs.

Ma Ma Lich explained to me how to stretch Molly’s legs to start treating it as well as icing it 3-4 times a day. Something again I’ll have to do when we get home. Something else I have to remember.

But we pulled it off.

From there I had to run her to Maria 5pm soccer practice, wait for that to be over (1 hour approx.), then run back down to Fairfield, pick Molly up from Gymnastics, feed us, treat the horse, and go home and put some little ones to bed.

At the soccer practice, I took that opportunity to nap in the car for 30 minutes. I needed that.

Maria got her invitation to a birthday party and was hell bent on hanging onto her ‘card’. I tried to reason with her. That’s impossible. We have to have that so we know when you’re supposed to go. I need to put that on the refrigerator. Then I realized that I didn’t check with the coach to make sure her game time didn’t change, a call I’ll have to make.

On to CGA.

We ended up with 20-30 minutes to watch Molly. Maria wants to do gymnastics so bad she can taste it. She’s mesmerized when we’re there.

Molly got ‘released’ and we headed to McDonalds. I hadn’t been there in a while with the kids so it was time.

Look Claudine, no coupons!

After diner it was a quick in and out with the horse. His eye is healing (I think) looked rather funky tonight. The hole is closing but it’s pushing some of the pupil out more. I honestly don’t know how he closes his eyelid, but he doesn’t seem to mind. He’s a happy camper at the moment.

Off to home. I get a phone call from Claudine, she can’t be there yet, but perhaps she’s at her first lay over. Not so lucky. The plane was delayed, so they cancelled her flight, netting us two free tickets in the US as well as a free night’s stay at the luxurious Drawbridge Inn. They get to take a new flight in the morning.

We get home let the dogs out and I send the kids to bed. After about an hour of wrestling with Maria and her fears of Mom dying, I can finally get some work done.

Tomorrow my mom picks up the kids in the morning. 1/2 day down 4 more to go 🙂

So far:
Injuries: 0
Beatings: 0
Deaths: 0

All good.

Whew, winter is moving in…

It was freezing this morning.

The 10am game featured the Cheeto’s vs. the blue team in another game of attention span soccer.

Maria played her best game yet. She made some great plays. While on defense she stole the ball and carried it out to the center line. She was all alone, on a break away! The coach was screaming, Go Maria, Go! But she got to half way dumped the ball and ran back. After all she was on defense and that wasn’t her job.

Full size pictures are in the Gallery under Maria:Soccer

Even though it’s candy league and they don’t keep score, they won again 3-1 I think.

The 11:30am game featured the Green Machine vs the Yellow Bellies or something.

The Green Machine got off to their best start ever. Scoring first for the first time in any of their games! There was hope! They played better.

As with Maria, this was Maggies best effort as well. The Yellow team turned it up a notch, and broke down the Green Machines defense and again left the goalie in a number of 2 on 1 and 3 on 1 situations in which she had no chance.

Down 3-1 with only minutes to play they decided it was time to make a comeback. But it was too little too late. Final score today 3-2 in favor of the bad guys 🙁

It saddens me to post this but I thought you’d want to know.

Sometime yesterday, or perhaps Monday night, Cisco’s eye ruptured. 🙁

Most of you know he suffered an abrasion, or simply a fungal infection that we’ve been fighting for nearly 3 months now. We had just won that battle when he had gotten another abrasion that was carry deep in the middle of the fungal affected area. You can see those pictures in the gallery here:

Cisco’s Eye Issue in the Gallery
I warn you, it’s not a pretty sight.

He currently has no sight in his right eye at all. Time will tell if he will recover from this. Horses have recovered from ruptures. It’s rare, but it has happened. If any horse can do it Cisco can. Your thoughts and prayers would be appreciated.

The Disher Family.

The A.M. Game pitted the Red Cheeto’s against Green Team in the Candy league. (I think they are the Cheetah’s but Maria says no they are the Cheeto’s like the cheesy curls.

The game was hard fought with many close calls. Back and forth, back and forth, many wrong way plays, but ended in a 0-0 tie.

The afternoon game featured the Lime Green Machine, now 0-2-1, playing Camden, who we believe is undefeated and it showed. They scored off the bat in less than 30 seconds. It started very similarly to last weeks game. The Green Machine battled back but to no avail. Maggie played well. The goalie wasn’t feeling well and had to be relieved, so again they had no subs which really hurt them. Camden is a bunch of small wirey girls that are fast and know how to throw the body around. End result was 7-1 I think.

Maggie did well, again this is her first year playing. It looks like coach Alice finally has some coaching help and things are starting to improve.