The summer of crazy busy weekends

This weekend started the summer of crazy busy weekends for the Davis crew.

Saturday mornings, the kids have swim lessons (Cary and Dean are in the same swim class as Abby and Maya; Clair and I do a "Mommy and Me" class together at the same time).

After swim lessons, which end around 11:30, we eat lunch and get the kids down for a nap. If Lester has shopped for groceries on Friday night, then I can start the cooking for the week on Saturday while the kids nap. If not, Lester shops while they nap and I try to get other things done in the house (although this Saturday, I napped a bit too -- shhhhh!)

After nap, the kids get a snack and then we go to Pee Wee baseball, which takes place at a field near Morgan State University, which is not far from our house. Yesterday was the first day of baseball, because last week's game got rained out. We weren't sure what to expect from this clinic -- there are a LOT of  3-to-5-year-olds in this league -- but it seemed pretty organized, and the boys seemed to really enjoy running the bases. (All the standing/sitting and waiting, though? Not so much.)

But look how CUTE they look running from base to base! 

I can't wait to show these to them when they're teenagers. Oh, the hilarity!

After baseball, we do dinner, bathtime and bedtime. And there's literally no time for almost anything else all day.

Sundays, we go to church, and I cook dinners for the week, and we Lester cleans up while the kids run through the house destroying what we he just cleaned. And aside from that, there's ALSO not much time for anything else. (Although yesterday, I did sneak in a couple hours at book club with my girls, which was awesome, as usual, and I'm so glad I did it. Thanks - as always - to Lester for being so supportive of my need to get out and be with friends and women I admire.)

In between all that, we're trying to finally get Lester's house in DC on the market (he drove down yesterday when I got back from book club to do a few things to it) and there's a thousand cookouts and festivals and birthday parties to attend. Not to mention our July beach trip. How we'll do it all and remain sane, I don't know. 

It's going to be a busy summer, but I'd rather that than a dull one! I'm particularly glad that my kids are doing swimming lessons (you guys know I can't swim, right? So I'm determined my kids won't be like me). And with scenes like the ones in the videos -- of C and D awkwardly and adorably running around the baseball diamond -- happening every Saturday evening, I think all the busy-ness will be totally worth it.

"Spring" training

In honor of the Orioles home opener today at Camden Yards, I thought I'd post these two pictures of my boys, outside in our backpatch (too small to call it a yard), playing T-ball.

Yes, my child is attempting to hit the baseball with a golf club.

Dean can whack that ball like nobody's business. He is also a really good kicker.

Look at those pictures of young boys practicing that most American of pastimes! Can't you just smell the Spring air, the faint aroma of roasted peanuts, the fragrance of Cherry Blossoms wafting through a sunny stadium?

No?

Could it be because it is April 5 and frikkin' FREEZING?!?! Hmmmm?

It is so cold, my children are forced to play baseball (golf-ball?) in hats, gloves and hoods.

Spring? Where are you? Why hast thou forsaken us?

Whatever we did, we're really sorry. Our lives are so cold and gray without you. Please just come out now. We'll change. We promise.