this weekend west & i LeArnEd the meaning of "mAndAtOry" (or dEmAndAtOry") . . . . .
this weekend, the family had actually planned to go to the "armpit of the world" buhl, idaho to visit my parents & attend the open house of the newly built twin falls temple. we were all actually excited to go, something i haven't always been able to admit to in the past.
as things do, they quickly degraded from bAd to iMpoSsibLe in a matter of hours! levi had football practice from 6pm - 8pm friday night (something that could be taken as opTioNaL), a "mothers' meeting" at 8pm (again, opTiOnaL, to discuss volunteering for the various waterballon, half-time poster & after game snack committees) & 9:15pm mAndAtoRy weigh-ins for his upcoming first game on the 30th. (mAndAtoRy, for those of ya'all that don't know what that means, is the equivelant of still practicing but nOt playing in any of the games . . . & after making the small investment in mAndAtoRy fees ($210) to play football, we decided levi should attend his mAnDaTory weigh-in on friday night & fore-go the trip to idaho.) west & i mistakenly thought we would have time to squeeze a "friday night date night" dinner in while k8e was at work, levi was at practice & adam was at his scrimmage. the minute we sat down to eat (7:10pm) levi called on a borrowed cell phone inquiring where i was & requesting his shorts (which he fOrgOt to take with him to practice even though i reminded him a bizzillion times during the day) he needed for his weigh-ins. miraclously, levi's practice ended early, his weigh-ins occurred earlier & the mothers' meeting was, of course, still held at 8:15pm. . . . . while i was busy making sure levi had his shirt & shorts for his mAndAtoRy weigh-ins & was faithfully waiting for the rEquiReD "mothers' meeting" (which turned out to be a bunch of, well, nonsense) west & abbie (who had planned to have a slumber party with a friend - abbie had the plans, not west-, but had to cancel since we weren't at home), finished eating the food we (west & i & abbie) had ordered for the "friday night date night" dinner west& i had planned, and then went & picked up k8e, who i had dropped off 3 hours earlier at sugarhouse park (45 minutes from our house) from her "event" she had worked at that evening. after the senseless "mothers' meeting", levi & i swung by riverton high school football field to pick adam up from his mAndAtOry scrimmage for the varsity & jv teams & decided to participate (consume the hamburgers & hotdogs & fruit salads & chips & cookies) in the family bbq that had been scheduled as an incentive after the scrimmage (liek feeding us will be the SoLe determining factor in whether we attended or not . . . ok, so they were right) . . . meanwhile, tessa, who obediently "rto-ed" work off from the theatre to be able to go to idaho for the weekend, decided to pick up an extra shift & make some extra buckos when she figured out that the trip to idaho wasn't happening & each individual family member had individual "mAndAtoRy" & "rEquiReD" plans. she was key in dropping adam off at 5pm for his scrimmage before she went to work from 5pm- 12midnight, while west was driving home from work to help levi get "nebulized" (his asthma has gotten to the point where he is now taking meds to manage it) to his 6pm practice & i dropped k8e off at sugarhouse park at 4:45pm for her work. . . cOmMuTiNg is nOt fUn & is VeRy eXpEnsiVe bOys & GirLs!!!! . . . . . well, west & abs & k8e made it home about 9:30pm while levi & adam & i made it home about 9:45pm. "friday night date night" was nOt . . . . :( then there was saturday . . . .
levi had a "rEqUirEd" practice in bluffdale (30-40 mins south of our home) from 8am -9am with a "mAndAtOry" scrimmage from 9am-11am. "mAnDatOry" in this case means, show-up & play or LoSe your starting position (levi is starting at defensive tackle). . . . adam was told he had a "mAndAtOry" film meeting saturday morning at the high school at 9am: "mAndAtOry" in this case means aTtEnD or be kiCkEd oFF the team . . . mama has a "mAnDaToRy" gym class every saturday from 8am-9am. "mAndAtoRy" in this case means let mama go to the gym to exercise or someone gets eaten! . . . saturday was trying to be true to the theme of the weekend (aka: west & tasha get screwed out of any time together), but west & tasha had other plans . . . . mama didn't make her gym class but was successful at talking (ok, maybe a little bit of bribing) levi out of participating in his "scrimmage" & tess was sweet enough to step up & drive adam to the high school . . . west & i decided to make a few "mAndAtOry" & "dEmAnDaTory" plans of our own: we told the kids that we had a "mAndAtOry" bike (motorcycles) ride scheduled immediately & every family member needed to "sacrafice". at this point, k8e offered to babysit & adam volunteered to entertain levi while we left. (who says demands don't work!?)
other things west & i learned this weekend:
1) manufacturing 2 stroke motorcycles is now illegal in utah
2) don't ride your motorcycle sideways in the shallow river, you might fall over
3) the way you hold a cookie in your hand makes your hand look either bigger or smaller
4) having a family is aLoT of work but rEaLLy gOoD when eVeRyoNe steps-up & helps:)
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