Cookies for Breakfast

   

  This is Sarah's first year participating on a competitive gymnastics team which means this is my first year watching my daughter compete on a competitive gymnastics team.  It's been a learning experience to say the least.  I spent the first few meets pacing and fretting, worrying over every unpointed toe and railing at the judges who clearly didn't see what I was seeing when I watched her routines (because seriously - 10.0 every time!).  Before SG's meet began yesterday I told Joel that I was going to do my absolute best to remain calm and collected throughout the whole entire meet.  It took a lot of effort, but if you asked Joel how it went yesterday, I think he would tell you that I was much less "ahhhhhh!!!!" and much more "well, let's see how this goes."  Sarah's first event was floor, followed by vault, then bars, then beam.  She was having a good meet and after three events she was on track to meet the goals she had set for herself before the meet began. Just one more event and we could call it a morning . . . 

Warning: Video has sound

If you watched the video you may have noticed that at the 1:08 mark the image gets jumpy - that's because my hands were shaking uncontrollably by that point.  Turns out I can only hold the angst at bay for so long then it just overwhelms me. All in all it was a pretty good meet. Sarah exceeded the goals she set for herself (one of which was to have a top three finish), I managed to remain mostly calm (at least on the outside), Owen supported his sister when it was appropriate to do so (and then returned to playing Star Wars Angry Birds), and Joel enjoyed the meet because his wife was a little less crazy than usual.

Back Seat Politician

     I was in the school lobby this afternoon when the results of the mock election were announced.  I posted the results on Facebook because I thought it might be interesting to see how predictive our school's election results might be.  According to the student body at our small (and apparently progressive) Catholic school, Obama received 51% of the votes, Romney received 43% percent, and Other received 6%.  On the way home Sarah told me that she voted for Mr. Obama, but after hearing the results of the election she wished that she had voted for Mr. Romney. Naturally, I asked her why.  "Well," she said, "you can be elected as president twice so if President Obama loses this election then he could run again in 2016 and Mr. Romney could run against him because he would already be president and then everybody could use the same campaign signs."  Apparently she's concerned about what's going to happen to all those Obama/Biden and Romney/Ryan yard signs when the election's over - because it's just wasteful to throw them all away. And just when I thought this election couldn't get any longer, my daughter has figured out a way to make the whole thing drag on for four more years.

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