We placed 4th at Nationals for Cheer!!!
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As is tradition with the blog, we always give Danielle the day off the blog on special days like her birthday and of course Mother’s Day—the whole reason the blog exists. So today being Mother’s Day, it’s me at the helm to talk about the week that was. There was a lot of amazing things to happen this week but the tragedy is none of them were really exciting for Emelia because she’s still stuck learning at home and living a very sheltered and hard to navigate life in this pandemic. It presents more than enough challenge for her and we’re doing our very best to support her mental health however we can.
This week we got some very good news! The camping season start that we were all ready to get knee-deep in – that had been pushed back because of the current stay at home order – got some promising news this week. Auburn sent out a message that the seasonal campers were going to be allowed into the campground for 24 hour stints at a time for the purposes of getting trailers in and sites set up for the season. Considering we were paying for storage for the trailer for an additional month, this was music to our ears! Especially because it gave us all our much-loved change of scenery.
In very short order and some half days of vacation added into my work life on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning we hatched plans to get Wolfie III out of storage Saturday at noon and up to Auburn! Our camping besties, The Sherwood’s were fixing to do the same. It allowed all of us a very much-needed feeling of some sense of return to normal, even if it was less than 24 hours of basically work and ready-getting. As of campfire o’clock last night, just after supper, we were for the most part trailers landed, campsites settled and feeling a lot more optimistic about our summer respite.
The other very exciting piece of news is the bike I ordered last Friday made it’s way from Vancouver to our door step this week! It arrived and within minutes Emelia and I were working on assembling it. We got it together in short order (though she said the process was far less involved than she anticipated and kind of anticlimactic as it was 96% assembled pre shipping). And before I knew it, I was out on the Thames Valley Parkway for my inaugural, first rip on it. It is so lite, and rides so smooth. I can really see this being the bike that fills the void of my GT Backwoods that I had since University and loved — before it was stolen off the trailer before a camping trip.
And lastly, while sitting around the camp fire last night, we found out that Emelia’s Cheer team placed 4th in the Nationals virtual competition that the girls worked their tails off right down to the buzzer getting their video entry done. This was the one that Emelia was really hard on herself because she felt she didn’t do it perfect enough. After watching their entry we are blown away at what their team was able to accomplish—especially in what had to be the most challenging of environments. But we disagree with Emelia, as her performance was great and we are so damned proud of her. Congratulations Cheerstrike Royals on making the most out of what had to be a difficult year, and congratulations Emelia on an amazing first year at Cheer!
Now, for Danielle… Happy Mother’s Day to one hell of a mother—one your mother would be insanely proud of I know! Thank you for making me a Father and for endlessly being Emelia’s biggest champion!! I hope your day is as special as all the others… or even specialer.