Cross Country

Graham had his first cross country meet yesterday. To say it was disorganized is understating it...not the actual meet but the people at our school. First off, they had too many kids for the bus. They had a list of all the kids who had paid for the bus so how could they not know this. I ended up taking two other boys with us, they wanted me to pick two of Graham's friends but I had to remind them the kids had to be over a certain height since I didn't have extra booster seats with us. We took two grade 6 boys. Then we get there and the grade 3 girls head out on their run and they say the boys will be in five minutes...the coaches for our school are too busy talking to the boys about what to do that all the other kids were lined up to start. I ran over to them and said they were about to start and got the "oh" and they told the boys to run to the start. The race started without our boys...they were a good 20 feet behind. There was over 100 kids in their group and Graham still managed to come in 41st...I thought he did great and I reminded him to think what his number would have been if they had started with the group so now he's psyched for the next meet. Graham's friend Connor came in 15th or 16th so he would have been in the top ten for sure.
I have my scrapbooking closet almost complete. It's painted and the shelves are up, I just have to find a pc of counter top or something similar for it...not so easy, here they are ordered in and they have no remnants laying around like they do in Halifax. I am going to call around to a few places. I would show you some pictures but I "lent" Mike my card reader the other day and I don't have it back yet.
Mike was in Halifax yesterday for the Chef's Assn dinner gala. I didn't go this year because of the track meet and Elysia's band parent meeting last night. Reta and I went last year and enjoyed a beautiful meal. Mike had some problems when he got to the city. He was getting something out of the trunk and set his keys down ( I think you know where I am going with this), the wind blew the trunk shut with his keys in it. He had some sorbet and ice cream in the trunk. He had to get a tow truck to open the truck and the stuff was starting to melt. Those of you who know my husband can imagine how he would have been freaking...hope he took extra blood pressure pills.
Elysia was thrilled that I was at the track meet yesterday and got to come home to an empty house. She had some friends over to play soccer in the front yard. Apparently her brother can drive her crazy when he's around--imagine that...