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Friday, February 16, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up - Valentine's Week

Olivia's basketball team did a wonderful job in Friday night's semi-final basketball game.   They played an aggressive, rough team and at one point fell behind on the scoreboard.   The third quarter brought a new determination and the girls fought back to a pretty substantial win margin.   Emotions were through the roof as they advanced to the division finals.

Saturday they faced the #1 ranked team in the conference.   This is the only team that defeated our girls on our home court during the regular season.  The game was really evenly matched early on.  Then the opposing players started to get nasty, and so did their fans.   There was screaming on the court and heckling from the stands during our foul shots.  Our best player got sandwiched between two big girls and flattened, and was then blatantly kicked in the head by another player as she ran by, no foul was called and that set the tone for the rest of the game.   Our team played well, but weren't willing to stoop to the level of the other team.   They lost by 5 points in a heartbreaking defeat.   However, like the coach told them, they played with integrity and sportsmanship and they had nothing to be ashamed of.
Sunday Lindsey was given the opportunity to run the display and sound board for Rafael Cruz (Ted Cruz's father) during a political campaigning event held in our area.  Honestly, when she was contacted about doing the display/sound board we agreed, not knowing who the speaker was.   I was really glad we all decided to go along when it was time to drop her off.   I had never heard Mr. Cruz speak but was really impressed by his passion, knowledge and oratory skills.

Monday we had a regular scheduled school day.   We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel in several subjects and it was nice to be able to buckle down.  In the evening the girls and I worked the concession stand during a basketball playoff game (fund raising for Haiti).

Tuesday Olivia and I had to go get vaccinations for our Haiti trip.  She only needed the first round of Hepatitis A.   I ended up needing both Hep A and Hep B (apparently they didn't vaccinate for that when I was a kid).   I wonder why I didn't need that one for Ethiopia 5 years ago?   Anyway, we picked up our typhoid oral vaccines (they currently reside in the fridge beside the butter), and prescriptions for malaria medications to take with us.       We came home and knocked out our day of school work, then in the evening we had our first archery session of the season.

Wednesday Olivia finished her American History for the year.  She did really good on her final exam.  This will put more white space in her  daily school work.   Lindsey had a pre-algebra test and continues to do really well in this regard.   We didn't do much for Valentine's Day other than share the chocolate, grins.

Thursday both girls were able to get their schoolwork done really early.   By around 11:30am everything was finished up and I even had time to go grocery shopping.   The temperatures hit 70 degrees outside and we got in a bit of sunshine and fresh air in the afternoon.   In the evening, Olivia traveled with her basketball team to watch a UVA women's basketball match against Notre Dame.   We dropped her off early to catch the bus, then grabbed some dinner before Lindsey and I went to work at the concession stand again.   Another late night as the team didn't get home until nearly 11pm.

Friday (today) is our co-op day.  We found out this week that one of our strongest/most involved families will be moving away over the summer (or sooner), so we're reworking our entire co-op year to work with who we have left.   After co-op the girls and I will travel out to visit my Momma.


Around the web this week, I shared Love Versus Hearts and Candy over at  Homesechooling With Heart.    A good reminder of what love is, and isn't.

 How was your week?
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3 comments:

  1. ah... it's hard when you play a team that stoops to a low level.

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  2. That stinks that they lost in their finals game to such a mean team. It's sad when kids (and ADULTS!) loose sight of what's really important when playing team sports. Sounds like you had a pretty great week otherwise. We are finally starting to see the light too on a few of our subjects and I reminded the boys that this is the time of year we buckle down and work extra in those subjects that are lagging behind.

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  3. What a full week of learning. We are excited to see the end in sight for several courses too. We should be done with two of them in the next three weeks.
    Blessings, Dawn

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