After a few crazy weeks getting ready for all my cheer comps I am excited to spending time with my friends this week.
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After back-to-back weekends of Cheer competitions and what ended three competitions in four weeks, we were ready for weekend off. Thankfully, we are still three full weekends before he next and last competition of the season. The season has flown by to quick and while originally we thought it might be her last season of competitive Cheer, the conversation has started about doing maybe one more season. The curveball in all of this is that we originally thought she might age out of U-18 at the end of the season, she apparently won’t and can do one more season—so we will see where her heart lands at the end of the season: Valour or Sov.
With a much more low key week and weekend on our plate, and the weather finally beginning to look like Spring was going to arrive, I have been able to get back to some bike rides outside which has been an absolute joy and much-needed changed to my daily activity. You can’t put a measure on how much it does for my mental wellbeing to get outside for over an hour of fresh air, exercise and sometimes, sun! Three times in the last week, I have gotten out for thirty plus kilometre ride north of the city on county roads through the wonderful rural scenery we have north of the city.
This weekend brought us to the start of Emelia’s March Break. It took literally two hours into her weeklong break from school to tell us she’s bored. With so many of her friends on vacation for the break, it’s left her with severely reduced options for hangouts. And being the kid she is, she is just not inclined to want to just veg out and do nothing for an entire week—which I know that Danielle & I would happily do. The other thing that she often forgets is with her on competitive cheer and the cost and time it takes for the season, it makes vacations away a very difficult thing to add to the mix. And truth be known, I think she’d pick Cheer over March Break vacations – it’s just she doesn’t like being bored.
The good news is this week, the weather consistently is much better than it has been and there are more days of plus ten temps and sunshine in the forecast, there will be plenty of opportunity to get outside. I am sure we will hear lots more about how bored Emelia is, but we can also use the extra moments of time we have, along with the better weather to focus on finishing up the basement swap-over to Emelia’s granny suite that she will take over this summer for her university years. There’s a few things left to do to finish off the store room and then we can start clearing the main room in order to build the wall it will need and starting officially making it her pad. It’s not moving fast enough for her, but soon enough we will be making progress that she can actually see the end much nearer.
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After weeks of go–go–go, Emelia is not really used to downtime. She is a kid who thrives on being busy. As John said she has already started the ‘I am bored‘ line with me yesterday but she did not sit around for long. Last night she was off to her friends Cheyenne’s house for the night and the girls got some much needed one-on-one time. Cheyenne and Emelia met in grade nine and have been close ever since. Emelia and Cheyenne are realizing quickly that high school is almost over and unlike most of her close friends Cheyenne is moving out of London for post secondary so the girls are trying to spend as much time together as possible. We have the rest of the school year and the summer for the girls to hang out as she and Cheyenne will be playing softball again this summer, for the 4th summer in a row.
As John has mentioned already most of Emelia’s closest friends are gone for the week, her friends Ashley and Belle are off to Ashley’s grandmothers condo in Florida for the week, her friend Carter is off to Bon Echo to hang out with his co-workers he met last summer for his summer job at Bon Echo. He is back there again this summer and is spending this week at a cottage in the area. But Emelia the ever social butterfly has plans already for tonight with Bri and Livvy so she won’t be home that much I think this week. She is always bummed every March Break and Christmas Break that we do not go away to an island. We have had to remind her that we have two focuses for her, that we can ensure we can afford her post secondary education and to ensure that she can do competitive sports. So we have decided to maximize our time on vacations in the spring/summer/fall we have the seasonal trailer. Not that exciting for Emelia anymore, one day we hope we can do a big trip down south but for now we are staying put and focusing on her cheer fees and university tuition.
Back to cheer. As we have spoke about the last month we have been living basically out of weekend suitcases in hotels all over southern Ontario going from one cheer comp to another. With that many competitions has ment not great sleeps, lots of germs and very long days. Well last weekend it all caught up with Emelia and she ended up quite sick having to compete through it all. We ended up keeping her home on Monday and her cold started hitting me as well. I stayed home with her on Monday, worked from home on Tuesday and then back to the office on Thursday and for a bit on Friday. A bit on Friday was due to the cold that I was hoping I was getting over hit me like a ton of bricks. I ended up leaving for the day by 11:00 on Friday and have been basically medicated and resting as much as possible since. I hope that I am getting on the end of this and will feel more like myself by next week so I can make the most of the warmer weather. With this warmer weather hopefully coming in we can finally start dreaming of the camping season countdown, only 53 days until our opening day – not that we are counting!