I spent some time today watching the films of Cortney's basketball games.  I got to where I could pick her out and could tell quickly when she wasn't on the court.  I concluded that she is a very skilled player and a major asset to her team.  Of course, I realize that it is a team.  She knows that too.  She plays well with her teammates.  I am happy to see her have this kind of an experience at her age.  She will be able to enjoy this part of her life for many years to come.  May it never go to her head and may she always know the order of things in her life and the things that are really important.  

 

I have kind of coasted through today.  Fridays tend to do that to me.  Or more correctly: I tend to do that to my Fridays.  I did leave some of my time to less important tasks.  Mostly the afternoon, as I had work enough to keep me pretty busy up to about noon.  I don't have all of my energy back, but my throat has been almost painless most of today.  I do need to get more creative about what I do through the day.  And tomorrow and Sunday and then Monday will be a good test for that as Monday is a court holiday.  I always have such good plans in my dreams about how productive I intend to be, but then real time comes along and I don't do as well as I would like.  Maybe I need to follow Hunter's good example and find a good book to read.  (Maybe even better I need to find a good book to write!)

I don't feel very tired right now, and we do have lots of guests upstairs.  (Robert is trying to fix our garage door and his family is here.) (And Shelli's 3 oldest are here for the night.)  Maybe I'll watch another of Cortney's games.  When Sheila and I were watching one together today she said that it was strange to have my L.D.S. Hymns on my computer giving sound to the ball games.  That is a kind of a symbol for me helping to establish that priority that I wrote about above.

 

I got to hold Jonah for awhile.  He decided to fill his pants while I was holding him.  I have always taken that as a compliment that my grand kids would feel at ease enough with me to be natural.  Weird, huh?

 

I hope Robert is successful with his project.  We do appreciate that he would do that for us.  I believe it is representative of all of the kids and how they would help us out in any way that they are able.  I sometimes feel like we aren't much good to them except to babysit now and again for them.  I am really trying to find my proper role for this stage of my life.  I don't feel like I have been successful at doing that yet.  But I am still trying and will keep working on it.