Missed Birthday Party

Nancy went over to her parents' house with Claire and Emily for a birthday party, but Sarah was sick, so I stayed home with her. That's something to offer up to God.

Montour Mess

The Varsity Girls were participating in the Montour Invitational against a bunch of public schools. They were allowed to run 10 girls and only had 8, so two sixth girls were asked to run up and got yesterday off. So, Sam and Claire were asked and able to do it. That wasn't the messy part.

Our race started at 11:15, so we were asked to get there by 10:15, so we could see the boys race and get ready for our race. That day, however, the time and order of the races were rearranged, so our race started at 10:15. Our second best runner wasn't there yet. None of the girls got to warm-up properly. Despite all that, they still got second place. Claire came in 4th for the team. Savannah's 5th grade sister dressed to take the place of the missing girl and came in 5th for us, I think. So, we're really proud of them (and really disappointed with Montour).

Mistakes were made

We finished the Book Fair yesterday around 1:00 and I tried to finalize our financial statement by 3:00. There's an easy summary that you can print out from the scanner and input online, so that's what I did. The print out said I should have 29 credit card records and I did, but it said the total should come out to $605 and it was $590 instead. I was also expecting a record to be missing because of a receipt misfeed we had earlier that week on a credit card transaction. That missing transaction could have been for $15, but then I would have 30 records and not 29. In any case, I used what was on the print-out because that's what I'm supposed to do. After I submitted it and was putting the other summaries away, I found a print-out with 30 records. I was using the wrong print-out to finalize things online. I can't edit a finalized statement online, so I have to call customer service and go from there. I am disappointed in myself.

I had all of this on my mind when I got to go watch Sarah race at St. Mary's. They did well, but there were no results sent yet because the coaches were getting ready for a middle school girls race today, which became another story in itself. At least I have a lot of anxiety to offer up to God.

Open House

We had Open House yesterday. XC practice the day before. Some of the other parents caught me running 5 miles at practice when they only run 2. They told Nancy about it when she took the girls to practice yesterday and I was at Open House. At Open House I met some parents, including Chloe's mom, who went to Bethany with me. Her dad didn't come though. He also went to Bethany (and Phi Tau) with me. They won't be at Homecoming this year because they'll be in Italy. Good times.

James 4:17

XC Practice was cancelled, so I took whoever wanted to go running with me out to Avonworth Community Park. Claire wanted to go running, but not there, so it was just Sarah and Emily. It also gave me time for email and one of our aides responded to my MLK quote about those who do not respond to evil are equally guilty with James 4:17 (if you don't do the good you're supposed to, it's a sin). I liked that.

East Catholic Invitational

The Varsity Girls, which included our 6th graders, beat the world with a 22 point total. The lowest possible for 5 runners is 15 (1+2+3+4+5). Claire was 6th on the team and 15th overall. Abby was 8th, not even counting for our team, and 18th overall. Our 3rd-5th graders also won the JV race. Sarah came in 4th on the team, but would have been 4th if she had run in the novice race for 1st-3rd graders. As is was, Emily came in 5th, getting beat by 3 3rd graders and a second grader. We celebrated afterwards at Hoss's.

Pitt v. Penn State

The rivalry was renewed and Pitt came out on top. My dad enjoyed the game, of course. I saw him afterwards at Kelly's. I stayed home with Claire and Emily that day while Nancy went to see Ashley with Sarah. We watched Gone with the Wind (and I passed the AR test based on it). It was another good day of family time.