Week in Review: High School Fall Sports are Over! And Other Things.

Last Friday evening, I brought a meal to my friend who just had a baby and I got to hold him and it was EVERYTHING.  That little baby was so warm and cuddly, and though I was afraid I may have forgotten how to hold a baby, it came back in an instant!  I did have lots of baby-holding practice between the years of 2003 and 2017, but it feels so far away now.  My friend is a full-time ER doctor and now the mother of nine and is just amazing.  I think moms of big families can easily get classified as women who aren't smart enough to figure out how not to get pregnant, so I just love when that stereotype is so obviously broken.  We just love babies and big families, m'kay?

While the Martin girls were attempting to steal the baby somehow, the Martin boys were at the school's Halloween Dance.  This year we had a Mad Scientist and a Commanders player:

Mad or Evil?

On Saturday, we took Brendan to his swim meet in Rhode Island, where we hung out for 4 hours for him to swim about 4 minutes:

The most unflattering of all sport uniforms

When we got back home, I overheard Declan asking him if he did anything fun with Mom and Dad, and Brendan reported that he got to eat at McDonald's and we went on a walk in between races:

While we were at the swim meet, Maggie was helping to lead, and Xander and Declan attended, a Diocesan Catholic Youth Day.  I don't have any pictures except one of Maggie on stage:

One night we were watching the new Chosen Adventures with the kids when a fireworks show started outside our window.  I guess a restaurant by the water does it every year in memory of the owner who passed away.  It was unexpected and great!

Welp, it happened.  My Maggie played her last high school home volleyball game this week.  It was Senior Night and the Senior parents got to walk their daughter onto the court before the game, and the underclassmen gave them each a present and it was very bittersweet.  They won which was extra nice!  The team actually plays their last game away tonight, followed by a family party at one of the girl's houses which we are very excited to attend.

Seniors in Chapel before the game

Besties

Family Support!

I miss that sassy little face :)

Xan the Cross Country Man ran his last meet of the season this week as well, and is very melancholy about not having anyone tell him to run after school each day.  I offered myself for that position but apparently I'm not a "real coach".  

He came in first in the JV meet because everyone ahead of him got lost!

This is a random and blurry photo but it's of Declan in his natural habitat.  Outside and playing a sport.  Gotta love that he doesn't even take off the Catholic school uniform before he gets to playing.  And I wonder why I have so much laundry.

Out at Franciscan, Andrew and Eamon attended their household's Whiskey + Wine Night.  I heard through the grapevine that they both had dates but I have no photo evidence.

Illegals

Legals

This weekend we have parent-teacher conferences, swim practice, a volleyball game + season's over party, a soccer game, a basketball practice and maybe a basement-cleanout on the agenda.  Phil has officially cleaned and emptied The Ice Cream Cottage for the off-season and had it winterized, so now I can bombard him with house projects :)  Mwahahahaha!  

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!