Snow Day Catch Up

Yesterday, another tender mercy came my way.  A snow day.  Just what I needed to catch up a bit.  I sorted, filed, organized, and laundered.  Although I still have a {LONG} way to go, it felt good to get that far.

And poor Mar, still can't ride her new bike.  But she was happy to have the whole family home all day with her, so that made up for it.

I also wanted to share one of Shi's races from her meet on Saturday.  I must preface it by saying that the announcer at this meet was terrific.  He made sure every participant's name was said in each race, then he called it play by play (or would that be stroke by stroke?).  Listen carefully... just ignore my loud cheering (and my audible disappointment at the end -- but let me say in my defense, I was NOT disappointed in Shilo in the least -- she actually took over a second off her best time -- just in the finish, which I didn't even manage to capture completely.  Nice.)

Shilo wanted to meet a girl named Missy Franklin at the invitaional.  Missy swims for a local religious high school, and is a girl that may likely swim in the Olympics someday.  This girl swims with Michael Phelps (not a fellow LHS student as I had originally misinterpreted).  Shilo just wanted to say hi, but didn't get the chance at the meet.  As we were heading home, however, we realized that Shilo actually competed against Missy.  In the 100 Back.  With just one heat in between.

Competing against Missy is better than just saying hi, don't you think?

I'm off.  Happy Tuesday.