Football is over

Well, it was a sad night at our house last night. Annika's older brother's football team lost in sections to our rival school and the season is now over. We didn't bring Annika last night and I was glad. The last quarter of the game it started to sprinkle and the wind really started to pick up. I wrapped up in my extra blanket and pulled up the hood of my sweatshirt. Marcus, who is our senior, did get a chance to play in the last minute or so of the last game and at the end of the game he fell to his knees. It was hard for him and Mom of course was crying. It was so great to hear as the crowd was yelling for Marcus when he got into the game. To explain it a little bit is Marcus is one of the smallest kids on the team but he has the biggest team spirit. So most of his time on varsity was spent on the sidelines. You can always hear him on the sidelines cheering on his teammates, pacing the sidelines, and just being a huge supporter of the team. But he also loves to get out there and "hit". He doesn't know the meaning of give up. The big guys will plow him over and he gets right back up and goes at them again. What a kid!!

Other than football being over, not much has been happening at our house the past week. It was MEA weekend here so the kids were all home. Annika got some well deserved rest for her physical needs and watched lots of her "movies". She did have some therapy sessions and actually went to her last speech session with the local SLP here in Litchfield. She is only seeing her now when she has a break from school but now the SLP is "retiring" from the hospital to spend the summer with her daughter and her family in Florida. Annika doesn't realize that this was the last one as we kept it pretty low key at the session. I will miss her greatly as Annika has been going to her for speech ever since she was 18 months old. So that means we will move on to another chapter in our life and not have any medical speech for the rest of the school year. I don't want to have her see a new therapist on a sporatic basis so we will need to see what is available this next summer and go from there. Actually with her level, we may be done with speech permanently as Annika's speech is really great. She really just needs help with language and some of the pre reading skills.

Better go get the princess up for school.