Diving Weekend

Nothing reminds you how much time weekend-heavy kiddie activities take up until you spend your whole weekend doing kid activities, huh?

We ran down to the Chicago burbs so Cooper could compete at a dive meet last weekend. We didn't want to spend the night, so we made him do 1-meter with the high school age group (lol), and he was fabulous, as usual. His travel team was at a meet in Orlando, but Cooper really wanted to go to one in GA in a couple of weeks, so we thought we'd have him stay local this weekend and get a bonus weekend of reps in front of judges. Ben's parents met us for coffee and spectating, and it was a lovely time all around.

Even Dorothy sort of had fun!

Cheese!

I was not really double fisting-- one was Ben's.

Such concentration!

Keeping an eye on Raquel.

Warm ups:

Minnie was more than happy to do a work book

And make a sign

that she faithfully held up every time Cooper was on the board

He might as well compete up since he has a terrible dive birthday and has to compete with the 16-18's next year as a 15 y/o. Right now, he is in his second year in the 14-15 age group even though he won't be 15 until SEPTEMBER when the season is OVER (when he will be competing in the 16-18's).

For us, both dance and diving are high weeknight commitments but relatively low weekend commitments-- until the season starts and we have to be places on the weekend. Dance is quick-- there's a dress rehearsal and 4 regional competitions March-May, plus the recital weekend in early June, plus a week for nationals in late June. Not a ton of weekend time spread out over the whole year. Dive is similarly scheduled. There's a fall meet or two, but the real action happens in the spring/summer. Between a couple weeks ago when he went to Milwaukee and July, Coop has Chicago, Milwaukee again, Madison, Des Moines, Iowa City, Orlando, Ft Lauderdale, and hopefully West Virginia (maybe even twice). And if West Virginia is not in the cards, he could have another trip to Ft. Lauderdale. That's a bunch of travel (except Madison, which is still a weekend commitment).

I am just not used to it, and we definitely felt the pinch in terms of grocery shopping (by which I mean placing an online order and picking it up) and house admin stuff.

Don't worry, though. Annabel doesn't mind that I didn't have time to change Dorothy's sheets.