Ball Girls

Tonight Madison and Peyton were the "ball girls" at the Concord varsity girls soccer game. They were invited to do this by one of the secretaries at their school who has a senior on the Concord team. (They held spare balls and gave them to players when the ball went out of bounds and then fetched the out of bounds balls). They loved it and it was a great way for them to pay attention to the game. Madison says she can't wait to be playing on that field. It was a beautiful evening. Concord lost 0-2 though.

Yesterday Madison's Flames team lost 0-2 also against the South Bend Invaders. Her coach is trying a new formation in the field... how they play in the field... and I don't think it's working too well. Hopefully that will be changing soon. They only play with 2 defenders...and the others in front more. Madison kicks all of the corner kicks and goal kicks from both ends of the field and then she has to sprint to the opposite end of the field if the ball quickly gets through. Not good.

Our pastoral candidate came and preached for the first time yesterday. Ron Guengerich is his name. I think he will be really good. We vote next Sunday and if all passes he will start near the beginning of December.

The kids had dentist appointments this morning at 8am. Pakka picked up the kids from the office after their appointment and took them on to school and I went to work. That was so great and got me to work on time.

I'm still fighting this cold and was up for a few hours during the night coughing. I felt better during the day though so that was good. It was a busy Monday at work.

The kids have ISTEP testing that starts tomorrow (ITED tests for you Iowans). They are dreading it but I think they are as ready as they will get. They have been reviewing a lot and Quinn came bounding in the door this afternoon talking about how he couldn't eat any sugar tomorrow for breakfast and he needed to get a good night's sleep etc... (Sounds like things we say all the time any way doesn't it?).

Well, I've got to go and hit the Nyquil bottle. Yuck!!!...but it helps.

Love, Leah