April 26, 2025

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• It was an early morning-I had planned on taking Campbell to meet her buddies this morning at 6:45,but since that would eventually mean 3 different cars at Raymar today, Robby decided he would take the early morning shift.
• They left at 6:20, and he dropped Campbell off at ChickFila where she joined Brooklyn and quite a few friends to attend the Heart Walk this morning in honor of Brooklyn. Campbell had a blast hanging out, eating pizza, and painting rocks. 
• Anderson, Keaton, Whitman, and I passed Robby as he was pulling into our street, and we were pulling out at 7:10 so Anderson could get to Raymar at 7:30. Everyone else gets there before he does, but he is just fine with not getting there so early...and so am I. 
• Anderson helped set things up, and Keaton helped as well. Whitman sat in the car for a few minutes with me while I ate my breakfast. Then we went in and started getting the concession stand ready-since I don't drink coffee I don't know how to make it! I am sure that every week people are surprised by how weak or how strong the coffee is-I just follow whatever directions ChatGPT give me that day on how to make the coffee!
• Keaton and Whitman's game was early today so that was nice to be done with that. It was a tie-the other team caught up with a goal late in the game. Of course, Keaton is after the ball running up and down the field, but our Whitman does so well too. He usually gets to the ball to kick it or blocks the other players progress. He stays in the back, and today he ran to kick the ball and missed it (all of these kids do that occasionally (this is Upward)-at least he got in someone's way and slowed them down). But when he did miss the ball, he just laughed-I'm glad that he could laugh at himself (because really that is a useful life skill that some people just don't have.)
• And all of the soccer games were much better today-maybe all of the problem coaches from last week were on their best behavior because the old man ref and preacher man were reffing their games. 
• Since Robby's game was so early, we had plenty of time in the concession stand. During the last game, we just went to watch a game-Keaton was reffing that game so it was a good one to watch plus it was very nice weather today.
• We all made it home around 4. Keaton hurried around because she went to a friend's church for an even tonight. The rest of us had frozen pizza and pretty much vegged all evening. Graham volunteered to pick up Keaton which of course we were happy about.
• Robby and I went to the Wilson's house tonight. They had some Crumbl cookies-so Graham did ask for payment for picking up Keaton in the form of some of the Wilson's cookies. We even snuck out a a piece of key lime pie for Anderson.
• When we came in, Whitman was the only one who hadn't had a shower so he quickly took his before all of these people headed to bed!