We have a new rhythm to our life now.

Hockey.

LightBoy has now joined a team. His team has the traditional o’dark thirty practice on a weekend morning. So this morning saw LightHusband and I up before dawn, traipsing to the rink to watch LightBoy at his first official hockey practice. Today was evaluations. They herded all the Squirts together and put them through their paces. This was to make sure that the talent, and the need, is evenly spread out throughout all three teams. I’m happy to say that while LightBoy towered above all the other children in height, he was dead center in terms of talent and ability. He was also very polite and listened well. It was fun watching all the kids in the rink. I saw something I never saw before. I saw a boy a skate with an imaginary sawhorse between his legs. It was quite a feat, but he accomplished it. With grace.

Then the whole lot of them had to skate backwards. That was priceless. For some, their feet went faster than their legs. For others, their legs moved faster than their feet. Still others it was their bodies which were out of sync with the whole process. But in any case, it was comical all around.

This is LightBoy taking instruction from one of the coaches:

We got home at 7:30 in the morning.

I took a nap.

We then began the process of preparing the livingroom for painting.  It was a mess.  I had LightHusband take some before photos.  Here are one or two.  Just so you know what we’re working with.  Tomorrow I’ll post a photo of what we did today.  Today we cleaned up the room, and moved all the furniture into the middle of the room.  We took everything off the walls, and vacuumed.  Tomorrow I’m going to wash the walls, tape and spackle the holes.  We’ll be ready to paint on Monday.

We missed our deadline.  But I’ll have photos to show my counselor that we’ve made some serious progress.  It will be finished this week.  Our goal is to have the entire downstairs and our bedroom painted by Thanksgiving.  LightHusband’s family is coming for Thanksgiving.  But hey, with every weekend day being 4 days instead of 2 because of this new hockey rhythm we might just accomplish this goal.