My weekend

Friday: Did a route in the morning. Arose before the sun and coached the third of Ryan's tournament soccer game at 8 am. Went to work for a couple of hours. (It was my day off.) Chase's Football practice, Bart left for hunting trip, Cooper, Ryan and I went and rented movies Clueless and Batman Begins, watched Clueless with Ryan and Sabina and realized-with horror-that there is a drug scene in the movie where Alicia Silverstone makes it not a big deal to light one up at a Friday night party. Started working on Ryan's integer game for her Algebra class. Theme of the game: Sisterhood of the traveling pants.

Saturday: Arose after the sun. Went to the 4th tournament soccer game. We proceeded to lose the 4th of the four games. Happy days! It is interesting that our girls don't really get bummed out about losing. They just want to play the game. John and I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing. I would like to see a little more intensity about wanting to win but I see so much from parents that I have to be grateful that John is so calm and the girls follow suit. Both Grandmas, Amra, Larae, Lily showed up and then we all drove like the wind to Chase's football game. It was a beautiful day to spend out watching games. The Peterson clan--Ryan, Chase, Cooper and I then went to Chili's for lunch/dinner. Back at home Carla and Larae had set up shop so we watched Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Cooper's favorite book at this time is "There is the Monster at the End of this Book" Every night we read it. And every night he almost keels over laughing so hard at Grover. (I may have a chance with him liking to read. I can feel it. Fingers crossed.) Bart called and said he had gotten a deer with his big bad black gun so he could come home now.

Sunday: Went to church. Came home and piled all the kids in the car to do a little route collecting from the USA TODAY boxes. Quality time. Cough, cough. We then came back home and had all the Petersons over for making Halloween sugar cookies. Dozens and dozens of black cats, witch's hats, brooms, acorns and yummy tombstones. We got some pretty good frosting colors this year and had a good time decorating. Cooper, of course, decorated his 10 cookies with orange frosting and then completely covered them in a thick layer of orange sugar sprinkles. "Because orange is the favorite color." Every cookie? Every cookie. Singlemindedness to the point of recklessness=Cooper. Had tasty chicken chili. Bart came home. Watched Batman Begin. Liked it a lot.

Ready for the week. Not.