This is a little late. It's about last weekend. I don’t know what it is like for others, but I find that blogging requires a certain emotional state for me. I have to be feeling reflective or communicative or something. At the end of a long day, I can't do it. In the midst of stresses or other tasks that require lots of writing, I can't get focused on more writing. I guess it's the limits of the beast.
Last weekend Jane was away at a women's retreat. That's an annual event now and quite popular. They had over 175 ladies this time at the Ngor Hotel including the speaker (John Piper's wife) and a bunch of volunteers from the US. (One woman came from the US just to spend the weekend doing hair for the missionary ladies attending the conference. She attended no meetings. She just holed up in a room cutting and giving perms and all that!
So Jonathan and I were baching it. Friday after school the middle school boys were invited to scrimmage the HS girls soccer team. So we stayed for that. He played great and came away dirty and happy and sweaty. Then the staff men and fathers got invited to scrimmage the boys HS basketball. A game with a Senegalese team fell through, I think. So Jonathan and I slipped out to buy some supper. The timing was a bit off. I was wolfing down my burger and chips when I should have been stretching out and warming up! But I played. We had eleven old guys. Well, OK, one staff guy isn’t old, but the rest of us were all beyond our twenties a while back! We subbed out everyone each 3-5 minutes. None of us is used to full court basketball. We lost badly to the boys, but it was a lot of fun and I didn’t have a heart attack or anything!
Saturday the various DA softball teams (adult, HS and social) had 4 games. Jonathan really wanted to watch these. So I sat at the field, working at the lap top on minutes from the three day Board meeting. I got one day’s worth done! And it was a beautiful day to watch softball. And hot dogs from the concession stand took care of lunch.
Afterwards, Corrie came over to play with Jonathan. They ended up arranging for him to stay through the night. We whipped up some pancakes and sausage and the boys had a good time together. We even went to bed at a reasonable hour.
Sunday we drove early to DA so Corrie could change into church clothes. Later Jonathan and I went out to the hotel where Jane was finishing her conference. We got to swim in the pool and hang at the beach a bit. A nice ending to a fairly relaxed weekend.
Saturday the various DA softball teams (adult, HS and social) had 4 games. Jonathan really wanted to watch these. So I sat at the field, working at the lap top on minutes from the three day Board meeting. I got one day’s worth done! And it was a beautiful day to watch softball. And hot dogs from the concession stand took care of lunch.
