Mixed Emotions...

I imagine many of you have heard the joke about the "definition of mixed emotions," i.e. watching your brand new Mercedes rolling off a cliff with your mother-in-law behind the wheel (actually I kind of like my mother-in-law). Well, today was one of those kinds of moments. Aaron had his basketball game this afternoon and they were short of coaches, so the head coach drafted me to coach the "blue" team, which happened to be playing against Aaron's team. Here I've been reffing games Aaron wasn't playing in, not being able to watch him at all and the first week in several that I was able to watch him, I ended up coaching his opposition. So... Here I was hoping Aaron would win, but also hoping the team I coached would win. In the end, Aaron's team lost, but only by 4 points, far better than most of their previous contests. The final score was 24 to 20. I was just happy to see Aaron make some real improvements, this time getting a nice clean steal and making a 12-footer. He was all smiles as his coaches cheered him on.

Daniel did great this week too, though the Wolverines played to a 16-16 tie. They have one more game, I believe, and then a pizza party right after the game. Us coaches are going to chip in some money to get some trophies and/or medals for awards. I'm really looking forward to the next season when I'll hopefully know some more about the fundamentals of the game.

Today was a great day for Aaron for another reason. He took his Minnesota achievement tests for math and reading this week and usually he has someone help with reading the test questions to him and there is something like 50 odd questions to answer and by the time the resource person arrived, Aaron had already gone through some 40-plus questions and was almost finished. He scored substantially higher than previously too, so the resource teacher was extremly impressed, at least enough to stop me on my way to basketball practice to recount his performance. A great day all around for Aaron, both athletically and academically. We finished the day with a trip to Wally World where we picked out PJs/PJ bottoms for the boys to wear tomorrow for pajama day at school. It was only 1 degree today, though, so I don't exactly envy them wearing PJ pants out there. I think I'll drive them to school rather than have them stand out at the bus stop. At least the good news on the horizon is daylight saviings will be coming along earlier than previously, on March 11, so we will be able to fit more recreation time into the weekdays.