We must wear IU apparel on IU game days...sometimes it even matches! Mark and Matt backing up to check the status of things in the height contest...Mark still has him by an inch or so...am thinking that isn't going to last much longer...what do you think?
Best night last night: a double header on the BTN, both wins. Okay...not that pretty with the Hawks, but the Hoos looked fine. Almost a full complement of players for the Hoos, AJ still having a sprained ankle and all, so we have yet to have all our team on the bench ready to play in any one game...soon, hopefully by next Wednesday when the Hoos and the Hawks play each other in IC. Hoos have to start the first several games off on the road...hmmm...we will have to see how that goes, won't we? For the Hawks: Tony Freeman was suited up and playing, so that was fun to see (since we watched his dad, Tony Freeman, Sr., play those years at IU) and believe me, those baby Hawks need Freeman suited up and playing.
Colts tonight, Hoos Football bowl game Monday night, and then the Hoos and Hawks in IC on Wednesday...how much better can it get on cold, dark, winter nights? What a way to end and begin the new year...and I just love seeing that extra lightness in Mark's step knowing that the Colts and the Hoosiers are looking on the bright side of winning seasons. (Two out of three: Pacers probably being only so-so at best this year.)
What's up today over here? Don't ask...really, don't ask: the Men's Den is about to be expanded into the Men's Den II...and I believe they are thinking this long holiday span is THE TIME, rather than waiting until I am off and out of here at the end of January for my yearly retreat. The target? The old school room...no longer in use as a school room this year...therefore, "Mom, please, it's just wasted space now...we could have a whole room just for our own and have all the game systems in there...it would be so COOL!" And, so it all goes...our wonderful school room with the huge chalkboard, bulletin boards, President photos marching around the ceiling border, the rolltop desks, computer stations, shelves and shelves of school books, and all those years of learning together and watching two little boys grow into young gentlemen. I'm a little wistful, but one can't hang on forever...I do know that...so, it's time to move on: Men's Den II is about to come into existence.
There were so many hellos and goodbyes this year...I am reeling with the speed and feeling of powerlessness, thinking the upcoming new year is going to be on more of an even keel for me with fewer changes in store. (I am never all that shot up about a lot of changes.) How about you...what kind of a year was it for you and what do you think the New Year will bring?