Beautiful day

I walked with my girlfriend this morning, three miles, after seeing the boys off to school. this morning, I was calling to Trevor to get out of bed and take a shower. He is in track now.He needs to shower every day. He picks up his phone by his bed and texts me "Leave me alone." to my phone. I am sure he meant it in the best of humor. I yell at him again to get up and take a shower.

Riley is already downstairs. He goes to bed at nine at night and awakens well rested at six in the morning. Trevor stays up reading until 10:30 or 11:00 some nights, if I don't catch him and tell him to turn his light out.

Tom has to be up by 4:30am these days in order to do the hour drive to work and be there early. They have broken ground on the project he is working on and things are intense. He comes home exhausted and is in bed by nine also.

Riley takes his written driver's test today. Yesterday, he passed the sample test with flying colors, best grades in the class. Only missed one question because he miss read it.

I also had Riley check his school grades, only to find missing assignments he thought he had turned in. We are going to have to check those on line grades regularly. He is close to honor role again. It just has taken some time to settle in and learn this new system. I know he can do this.

Trevor is also loving school but needs to check his grades on line regularly. He is motivated by track. He will be in great shape. He tells me they make the big kids wear pregnancy gear. It is a forty pound weight suit they have to run a mile in. He also has to stand holding the throwing discs with arms extended for over a half an hour, so he says. Great conditioning for football.

At Scouts, they are starting a fundraiser for which I am now chair. I track the sales and money for the boys. 50% of the sales will go to credit for the boy's camps this summer. Trevor is costing me a mint. He has football camp and scout camp. Both camps run about $275 each. He will be fund raising for band and football and track and scouts. Everyone is doing discount cards. Pick your preferred card. Last year I just bought all his cards for football. No way am I doing that this year. He is involved in too many activities.

The sun is out. I am heading out to clip blackberries. Did I tell you it is $180 for eight hours of a tractor plus the $60 drop off and pick up. The yard may be too steep for Tom and me to do it ourselves. We may have to hire it done. Add that to the costs. So I clip away at what I can do.