What’s Cash?

I was at work today when my phone rang. It was Evan. “Hey, Mom. I need gas for the Jeep. How do you pay if you only have cash?”

I’m still laughing. Four days later and I’m chuckling. 

The Jeep is still sitting on empty. 

Family Fun at the Holidays

Last week a photo popped up from our trip to the National Botanical Gardens and holiday train show from ten years ago. It was such a sweet memory! The boys were 5 and 3; Thomas the Tank Engine was on a first name basis in our house, and we just had to take the boys to see the holiday train displays. 

I was lamenting that recently the boys’ winter sports schedules have precluded us from doing many of the local holiday events. I have a list of places to go and things to do, but we just don’t usually have the down time. So with a rare, free Saturday afternoon this weekend, I bit the bullet and bought tickets to see a holiday production at the local theatre. 

It was supposed to be a great family fun day. Evan fell asleep within the first twenty minutes - a hard sleep that had his body twitching and his mouth drooling. We let him sleep. At the finale, the audience began clapping. Evan awoke with a start and started clapping, too, even though he had no idea where he was or why people were clapping. 

It was hilarious! Note to self, some weekends should just be for sleeping!

Smell Test

Evan has spent several of his Saturdays reffing rec soccer. It has been really hot and he has been very tired. But he had a goal: earn enough money to buy new Jordan's. He took his wad of cash to the mall last week ordered his dream shoes. Today they arrived in the mail. He took them out of the box and sniffed them. "Oh, man these smell good!"

The true test of a good pair of shoes - the smell test!

Now he must use the rest of his hard earned money to buy a new screen for his cracked phone. Real life just hit him hard - especially since opportunities to ref are dwindling.