Because turkeys mean fall.

Clearly I missed some posts last week.  On the other hand, I feel like I got a lot accomplished, not necessarily all of which will be reflected here.

In kids sports:

• The middle four had swimming lessons each week.
• By a mix of schedule and weather, our oldest only had four baseball practices.
• We totaled four soccer practices and seven soccer games.
• Our youngest went to two gymnastics classes.

Soccer has now moved to it’s “Under the Lights” late fall stage so all soccer practices for us are 7:00-8:30 pm.  This provides a whole new level of dinner complexity, but will only last a few weeks.

Other happenings:

• Collectively we had two doctor’s appointments.
• I attended another Back to School Night.  There’s one more next week.
• I went to a friend’s for dinner which was a nice variation from normal.
• We had a few play dates among the younger five kids.
• The kids had a day off from school.
• As a result of the day off there was only one math morning.
• The youngest had visiting day and her first day of school.
• We had visitors over the weekend.
• One child attended a birthday party.

The big bout of productivity came in the continued cleaning out.  I finished putting away all of the sale items.  As part of that process I separated out items to donate to various charities.  Those items still need to be sorted and actually donated.  I also listed a number of items on online yard sales with much success.

Sold:

• Two pairs of women’s pants
• One Halloween costume
• Two pairs of hockey gloves
• One pair of hockey elbow pads
• One pair of hockey socks
• Two travel booster seats

I also returned a shirt and gave away an infant tub and infant car seat.  And yet, the clean out continues.