Yesterday I had an early appointment in Rock Hill to get my car serviced.  When I finished up I got me some breakfast, ran a couple of errands, and then surprised Adam with burgers from Freddys for lunch at school.

More errands before heading out to pick up Clara. After she finished her homework we got a sausage/potato casserole in the oven for supper. She peeled all the potatoes while I was browning the sausage. Good job, big girl!

Spent a fairly lazy morning getting a few chores done around the house, then were at Tirzah at noon for Charlie’s final game of the season.  They played much better than last week, but couldn’t pull it out.  I did get this picture, though, of Charlie trying to block an inbounds shot right in front of us 🙂

Then this evening Emma, Rick’s sister Frankie, and I went out to eat supper at Courtneys, and then to the program at the auditorium. Meg is sick with what we’re afraid might be the flu, and Evelyn was out of town at a funeral, so I got them to go with me. It was an amazing Celtic/world music group called Puddingstone. We loved it. I think I took this while they were performing the Wizard of Oz medley 🙂

Last night Jeff and I headed to Woodland UMC for Adam’s final game of the basketball season.  They won hugely, both scorewise and behavior wise.  A couple of the kids on their team had not scored all year, and all game long everyone fed the ball to them almost exclusively, until finally one of them scored, anyway.  And the other kid were so excited – they were hugging him and high fiving him the rest of the game.  I love those guys!  Here is Adam working the jump ball to kick off the game – also something that hadn’t happened all season 🙂

And with his Coach Dad after the game. Great season, Woodland!

More cooking yesterday when Clara and I got to her house – this time cornbread.  She really can do almost everything herself – except handle the hot iron skillet.  Reading and measuring and mixing, though, she has down to a science.

Then last night Lindee had to work a little bit late, so I took Clara to her Bethany Elementary to the One Book, One School celebration. It really was so much fun. They had chicken sandwiches for everyone for supper, and we saw one of her besties, Sophie, as soon as we walked in the door, so we ate with her and her mom, and then buddied around with them til Lindee got there. They had different science experiments in the classrooms that went along with the book – something about the wild. Here they are making rainclouds.  So cute.

Wednesday afternoon was another Academic Quiz Team match for Mallory.  She’s right in the middle of her team in this picture, which means she gives the team’s answer.  And if kids have different answers, she has to pick which one to submit for their team.  Stressful!

Then that night at BIG we studies Joshua leading the army around the walls of the city, and then they got to tumble down the walls.  Mason is the tallest one.  It was a hit 🙂

Fun time when we got to Clara’s house after I picked her up at school.  She helped me make meatloaf – a first for her 🙂

Again, I don’t know why I can’t get these pictures to rotate. Grrrr. Anyway, after I got home I went and sat out by the fire that Jeff had going while he was clearing up the woods. Perfect way to end the day.

Our yard was finally dry enough yesterday that Jeff could get his motorcycle out to go for a ride, and he wanted to get some pictures of it before he went riding.  It’s a good thing he went when he did, because it’s been raining almost since he got back home!

Clara and I had been wanting to try a new craft we’d seen called sea glass effect.  Here she is hard at work.  It didn’t turn out great, but we think we know what we did wrong, so we’re going to give it another go next week.

She was so happy to see sunshine today, so she could get back out to her favorite reading spot. She’s hard at work getting her reading in for the Battle of the Books coming up pretty soon.

This afternoon Jeff and I headed to Indian Land to watch Mal and her teammates in their match.  I didn’t think I was going to be able to – I had to be back to keep the nursery at church for the Ash Wednesday service at 6:30 – but I was able to see the entire 7th grade match.  Mal’s team lost 25-19, but they did a good job.  In one of the rounds Mallory was the captain – here she is answering one of the questions.

Mal and her bestie, Lacy Emma, before one of the other rounds started.