Someone Has A Birthday Soon

My darling, delightful, dramatic, difficult daughter- Alia- will be 7 on February 1st.

Catching Up

We had a nice Christmas- thank you to all who participated in making it so- and the kids were happy to go back to school after the break. Ventura Youth Basketball Association has started its season and both Kim and Corey are playing. Corey lucked out and got a great coach and a good team. They have won every game by a large margin. A nice introduction to the sport. Kim unfortunately got neither a good coach or team and is valiently trying to take her old coach's advice to heart - when you are on a less experienced team you get to be the star. Doesn't help much when they lose every game by 30 points! We are sticking with it but it isn’t fun to either play in or watch the games. Hopefully the summer league will be more rewarding.
After a fairly warm and benign winter we have finally begun getting some storms- nothing too dramatic as long as you are inside and don’t have to drive in them! The rain will be good for the water supply- a big issue here- but each winter I’m reminded how little California drivers know about driving in the rain!
Kim’s middle school class is planning a trip to Washington DC over spring break (April!) so we are busy fundraising for that. I wish I could go along but have no one to watch the rest of the family and suspect she will enjoy the time with her friends so I’ll just have to stay here and worry. She is doing well in school and her current career goal is to be an architect.