Drive, drive, drive

Fall keeps trying to come to town, it's beautiful out today 70 degrees outside and has the 'fall' feel to the air. I'm sitting here in bed trying to wake up after getting home at 2:00 AM, went to Lovelock last night to pick up the Elko HS Soccer team. They played at Reed HS which is in Sparks, which is adjacent to Reno (they're right next to each other). Zac is settling into 3rd grade, Rick & I are fighting to the fight to get him back into a school routine. He seems to think that he ought to be able to run & play everyday after school instead of reading or doing school work, it's our own fault, we let him slide during the summer and now he just doesn't understand why he shouldn't be able to still go run & play! (big sigh) He's definetely got the Clarke genes............. stubborn as the day is long. So here I sit finally waking up, but what do you expect getting home at 2 asleep around 4:30, I managed to wake up to get Zac out the door for school, although he did most of the getting ready himself which is good that he's getting better on that score. So life is getting back to the school type routine for the Clarke family.

Let the games begin!

No it's not an Olympic year but with the amount of traveling the kids do here it might as well be. It's the end of the second week of school & so far I've taken volleyball to Winnemucca for a tournament, cross country to Fernley and now football to Reno to play Wooster High School. We left yesterday at noon. There were three major road construction areas and it was HOT! I think I lost about ten lbs. in sweat............. when we stopped in Winnemucca for lunch I got a Mountain Dew slurpy and I almost couldn't drink it fast enough before it melted, but it sure was satisfying! We arrived in Reno at 6:45 PM and went straight to Meadowood Mall for dinner then it was off to Galena High School so the varsity team could watch Galena and North Valley HS play..... didn't get to the hotel till 11:00 PM. We left the Hotel at 9:00 AM for breakfast and then to WOoster HS so they could prep for their game................. WEW! did you get all that? Me too. Now I'm gonna take a nap (they're not just for 4 yr olds you know) so I won't be too tired to drive home tonight..................... 300 miles and i'm sure it will be hot again. Meanwhile Rick & Zac are doing guy stuff together, Rick started getting the pool taken down for winter (can you believe it's on the way?) and Zac has a b-day party for one of his school buddies this afternoon. Hopefully my blog doesn't sound too much like a travel log but that's what our life is like someitmes, oh well, enjoy.

good intentions

So every year, every month, every week I vow to be better at getting my paperwork done for work, on time and turned in when it should be................... so this morning I'm doing my paperwork and turning it in. I get burnt out fast when it comes to paperwork! Sometimes I get to where I'm going so much that it gets piled up & when I get back so late and am so tired I tell myself I'll do it in the morning............... oh well another school year is here and I vow to be better at getting my paperwork turned in on time! Last weekend I took SCHS & EHS volleyball to Winnemucca for their tournament............... last year I took SCHS and they were so excited to see me, that's one of the things that makes my job fun, when the kids are happy to have me take them where they're going. This friday it's Elko football to Reno for 2 days. The nice thing is because there is no school friday they are leaving at 1 PM so I won't have to drive all night and we'll get there at a decent time. I'm also going with one of the newer drivers and she's never done an overnighter. She wants to go with someone else her first trip so I can teach her the ropes.............. so it might be fun and or interesting. I guess I'll find out this weekend!