Day 2

I had promised to fill you in about the game yesterday. Guess what? I was simply too 'knackered' at the end of it all to sit up and write.

My first son - Danju and his school basketball team were in a Pool A and had their matches at St Marguerite of Youville school. They won their first two games (the second victory against the home school was a nail bitter and they got the winning basket with just 4 seconds left to play); and lost the third more due to fatigue than anything else. For the first 5 or so minutes, the kids in their back-to-back game were hardly moving not to talk of thinking. I am not a coach but I would have thought that the bench would have made some substitutions to get some fresh legs in and give some of the starters a bit of a break and then re-introduced them later in the game.

Anyway, enough said, after all it was more for social networking for the kids than for anything else.

I don't want sound like a broken record (as if anybody still plays vinyl records these days haha) but by 9.45am this morning the team was at Bishop Redding High School playing another round robin tournament. Holy shmooly!!! Talk of putting kids under pressure?

Anyway old ranger had to add dropping off Danju at Bishop Redding High School (because it was out of the route of the regular school bus) to his already busy itinerary. Isn't it nice to be a kid in these times?

By the way, did I tell you that our home is being staged for a sale. For anybody who's had to sell a home in North America, getting a home ready for a sale can be a pain, what with having to make sure all personal stuff like pictures etc are 'boxed' away to give the home some air. For my three kids, the house does not look like a home any longer, it now looks like a hotel. So every morning before they leave for school, we have to sweep and wipe just in the event that the realtors call to know if that potential home buyer who just came to their office can come have a look. What a life.

So you are not to leave any pots on the stove and of course, you need to leave the house so the 'viewers' can have unfettered access. Thank goodness for 'Febreeze' air freshner. We always succeed in having the house smell sweetly.

Well I have to run now (it's 10.12 pm) so I can go say the night prayers with the kids and then would go load the laundry machine. I have found that doing the laundry after 10.00 pm saves tons on gas and hydro. For my financial pockets, this is a welcome development especially in the face of the current global financial tsunami.

Good night then and we'd continue tomorrow.