Single Parent Week Begins.

Aaron left this morning for Washington DC. He's going to a convention for work. As soon as possible, I'm planning on loading myself and my children up in the car and driving to Hooper to spend the week there. But Lincoln had his first soccer practice of the season this afternoon, and Linc and Del have a doctor's appointment in the morning, so we won't be leaving for H-town until tomorrow afternoon.

We did make a trip to Target this morning to cheer me up though. :) I bought a 3-panel canvas picture of poppies to go in my living room. It matches the other poppy pictures I have in the entry way there, and adds a nice touch to the room because it fills the wall space nicely. When Lisa was here, she suggested moving my dad's leather armchair in from the family room, and I've really been liking it. I just need to find some curtains I like, and a rug to go on the floor, a small table, maybe a lamp, and a few things to go on top of the piano, and that room will be completely done. It'll be the first one in the house too. But hey, it's all about baby steps. The room is starting to come together, and that's what's important.

This afternoon we took Lincoln to soccer practice. He missed the cub soccer deadline by about two weeks, so he has to play up in U8 this season. I was a little apprehensive about it at first, but now that we've been to practice, I really like his coach, so I am super excited for the season. The coach is just one of those people who relates to kids very naturally. He doesn't talk to them like they're babies, but he makes things simple enough that they can understand. He's enthusiastic and into playing the game, he really knows his stuff, but doesn't make it all about winning. It's about acquiring skills and getting better. The win/lose doesn't matter as long as everyone is improving. And the kids do improve, because the coach makes the drills fun, and stops frequently to explain what's going on, what kids are doing right, and gives suggestions of things to do better. Linc is the youngest one on the team, and I think playing alongside the older kids is really going to help him improve as well. It's going to be a great year for soccer.

I hate to cook when Aaron's gone. My kids would rather eat pizza or cereal anyways, and I would rather not fight with them about it. So tonight after soccer we stopped by Papa Murphey's. Then I decided we'd shake things up a bit, so we had a pizza picnic and movie night. The kids picked Tinkerbell for their movie, so I opted to work on getting us packed to leave tomorrow instead of watching with.