Another Monday

The weather is getting better. By better, of course, I mean overcast with showers and no sun! At this point, anything beats the snow!

I just got back from the gymnastics team's Big Tens Championship. It was a conflicting meet. While I was so proud of what the team did, I was frustrated because they could have done so much better. We did really well on three events, and blew vault. In post-season, you can't blow an event and expect to still prevail. Turns out that we got 5th instead of about 2nd. (We would have beaten Penn State - damn it!) On a positive note, Larissa received the honor of Big Tens Coach of the year (even though she had to share it with Bev.!), and there seems to be a lead into why the teams 2 lowest scores are such....

It became apparent to me on the bus ride home from the meet after a specific conversation, that there is one coach that seems to correlate to the low score of the meet. Originally on beam this season, she was pulled from it because she was doing such a poor job and put on vault and floor dance. As a result, our beam scores went way up (we havn't counted a fall yet) and our vaulters have forgotten how to vault - they are now doing vaults of lower values with just as much deduction - great!

I was happy to support the team, and it was really good to see some other alumn and Larissa's parents, I am still not comfortable with my spot in this show. I feel distanced from the team, while my better half is becoming closer to them. It is a weird pull for me, and really hard to commuicate between the two of us. As much as I am happy that I went, I find myself constantly questioning if it would have been better if I had just stayed home. But enough of that....

Our new addition to the family is doing really well. He spent a long weekend with his new friend Gunner (a Great Dane). My better half has great pics of our kids, Odin and Baker, on her blog. It was just updated with pics from Odin's sleepover as well!

Enjoy....
Here's to the beginning of yet another stressful week.