Tonight’s Fishing Scores

Bryce – 4
Emily – 2
Olivia – 1 crawdad
Steve – 0
Tim – 0 (Yes, as in ex husband…kinda weird, but worked out okay)

The Party’s Over

Oh my gosh…it’s been a long time since I’ve felt so physically and mentally drained. All those kids wore me out! Two of them were out of control. Poor Bryce, he knew I was at my wits end and did his best to subdue them. They were better at the paintball field, but here at home. Holy cow! If they were mine, they’d be duct taped to the wall! I had to be on them constantly. That aside, playing paintball was awesome! I didn’t play, but I got to go out and watch them on the field. They got to play by themselves so they actually had a shot. I must say that my baby girl (really she’s 10) kicked some ass! She was on her stomach crawling on the ground from bunker to bunker making her way down the field. Afterwards, she said to me, “Mom, I gotta do this more often!” Altogether there were 6 kids so they played three on three. It was really funny because the kids would organize themselves out on the field and put together a game plan among their teams. Two HUGE thumbs up to the guys out at Elkhart Indoor Paintball! They were absolutely great. They were so helpful with the kids – giving them tips and tricks, helping me clean and refill their guns in between games. And I heard from a couple of them comment how good Olivia was. Towards the end one of the kids got tired and didn’t play the last game so they played two on three. Olivia and Landon against Bryce, Josh and Devin…Olivia eliminated both Bryce and Josh (not sure who got Devin). I’m pretty sure she eliminated the most out of all of them overall for the day. In the end, Bryce and his buds had a great time. I’m glad I did that for him on his birthday, but it will be awhile before I take on that brood of kids again! In the meantime, Bryce and Olivia are already bugging me about when they can play paintball next. I may have created monsters….

Oh, and Bryce got a hair cut today! A flat top no less. His dad called me this morning and asked if it was okay if he took him. Bryce asked for it himself. My philosophy is that there are much more important things to battle with your children about and their hair shouldn’t be one of them. Though I am a little disappointed because I like it long, I must say that he looks quite handsome.

B-man’s Big Day

So today is Bryce’s birthday party. He’s so excited. He came home from school yesterday and told me that he told all of his friends to come 10 minutes early. I’m like okay…whatever. I’m taking them to play indoor paintball. This should be interesting. All of the boys are psyched. I’m getting a little nervous about my sanity though. So far three boys have RSVPed yes and one no. I just have visions of sugar-crazed little boys running about the house…Olivia is going to be there too so she’ll help try to maintian order. Bryce almost told her no that she couldn’t come to his party until I gave him the evil eye. As sisters go, she’s pretty awesome. She always buys stuff for Bryce. Like when we went bowling she took her own money and bought him a soda. She always does stuff like that for him. He can be a little brat in that I think he expects that stuff from her now. He feels a sense of entitlement, I think. But that’s not the defining feature of his character though. We will see how this all goes down today.