May 2025

For Brinley's birthday and she wanted to do an escape room with some friends. They were pretty easily able to breakout. 

Brinley went to church on her birthday and then had lunch at Josie's.

Then the girls went to paint some pottery at the Mad Potter. Brinley started making a bowl that was going to be a hunny pot with honey and bees all over it. She had to leave before finishing because her softball team had practice. 

I wanted to do something fun with Brinley on her birthday so after her softball practice I took her over to Chuck E Cheese. We practically had the place to ourselves. She had 30 minutes to play whatever she wanted. I didn't play a single thing and just watched her be a kid. 

More of the games that she played while at Chuck E Cheese. 

They made baseball cards for all the boys on the team. Landon wouldn't give me answers so I just made up whatever I thought would be good. 

We had someone unexpectedly show up at our house during Brinley's softball practice to celebrate her birthday. 

We came home to a table full of gifts for Brinley that Grandma and Grandpa had brought up for her. We had some Nothing Bundt Cake and also had Cane's for dinner. 

We had some visitors from Ohio. They had a day off from school on a Tuesday for elections and they came to see Landon play lacrosse and Brinley play softball. We celebrated with a little cake before we all left for games. 

It was supposed to work out great with timing, but Landon's lacrosse game got moved back an hour which meant they weren't going to be able to make it to both games. So everyone went to Landon's lacrosse game. They had never seen lacrosse played before so I had to explain as much as I had learned from the season of watching him. This was the final game of the year. I had a lot of fun watching him grow as a player this season. 

The Henry Clay team had a breast cancer awareness night in memory of one of the player's mother who passed away last year.  

Finished another good book. This was written by Michael Oher, who had been dealt a crazy life but had come out on the other side a better human, husband, father, and advocate for youth in need. He was the guy the movie the Blind Side was made about. 

Coach contacted me late one afternoon and asked if Brinley could make it to Scott County early. She needed her to dress out for Varsity. The team has had a couple of injuries and she needed some more depth. Brinley's first official Varsity game. She didn't get to play, but that didn't mean that I wasn't super proud of her. During the JV game it was raining a little and this beautiful rainbow appeared. 

Coach told her that she wanted her to dress out with Varsity for the rest of the year. Proud of her and how far she has come. If she puts in some work in the off season then I have no doubt that she can get some time on Varsity in the next couple of years. 

Brinley's travel ball team fell apart when three of the girls quit to join another team. So, Brinley played pick up with a team she tried out with but didn't want to commit to, Commonwealth Softball Club. They went   1-1 in pool play and were the number one seed in the silver bracket. They won the first tournament game, but lost in the silver bracket championship. This tournament was the Saturday before Mother's Day so they took a picture with all the girls and their mom's.

Brinley and Isla - they have been teammates for the last 4 years with Rampage. Since it fell apart they were both looking for a squad. Isla and Brinley are the two best players on this team and it is not even close. Glad they got to have a lot of fun playing together again. 

For Mother's Day the kids and Jennifer went to Mad Potter to complete their work they started on Brinley's birthday and then Landon started and completed his while they were there. 

I thought everything that they made turned out great. They all had a great time painting. 

I did some yard work and created this little rock garden underneath our tree in the front yard. I really like how it all turned out. Now we need to get some rocks painted to fill up all the space. 

Finished another book and this is exactly what I needed to have in my life. I have a hard time with boundaries. I struggle with saying no to things in my life. It is something that I am trying to work on and am going to have to cut some things out in order to make room for myself and my family. Unfortunately when I accept too many responsibilities then it takes away from time with my family. I need to do better about this.

Landon's summer Slam team had their first tournament of the season and we were over matched and hadn't practiced but once. It was a long weekend and Landon struggled with where they had him playing in the field and batting in the line up. He struck out four times in three games. He hadn't struck out that much in the past three years. Hopefully he gets a little drive back to put in some time outside of practice to get better. 

Brinley's last game of her 7th grade season when the team lost to Scott County in the district tournament. 

May was a popular month for me reading. I was more like Jennifer and brought a book with me to every game. I would read in between the innings to pass the time and try to beat my book goal for the year. 

Brinley's team had a park clean-up day after they lost in district tournament. The Henry Clay softball and baseball fields were set to be demolished after the season so that they could build the new school on that land. So, the softball team tagged the dugout with graffiti. Brinley got a picture with her name. 

The first day of summer vacation I woke the kids up early and took them over to hang out with Nora for the day while I was at work.