Bound for Maryland

OK, so enough fun with videos of Megan getting whooped in the IM. The summer swim season is behind us. The team has one more meet, a sure loss, but we will be on our way to Maryland by then, if not already there with Megan, who leaves at 8am tomorrow.

This meet, although a National meet, doesn't carry quite the clout of the spring national short course meet. Not as many teams attend, and the qualifying times are slightly more relaxed. Still, not an easy meet to make, but since we don't train all summer in a long course pool, and Megan has missed practices for swimmers ear, vacation, and beach swim meets, we are just going down and hoping for the best.

Meanwhile, Brian is expressing an interest in being on a swim team again. There is another team around here where most of the swimmers are like him, but the lanes are very crowded and generally the swimmers in the lower groups don't even show improvement. He has said he would like to try the Y again, and he may be doing that. Tryouts are coming up next week. It would be good for him to have something steady, and to have that kind of all-over conditioning year-round. I still believe he got through his chiari surgery recovery as well as he did because he was in the pool up until the week before.

Otherwise, I am in a sort of denial. I'm still sort of in a post-C stupor. We are starting to get the room ready for E, and we have made some decisions as far as that goes. We're going to take apart the bunk beds, but leave the big desk in her room. As long as the beds are being taken apart, I would like to replace his rug, which is a faded, musty old pink thing. We also got him a new dresser yesterday at IKEA when we went to get one for the guest room (which we did). We also got an armchair for Megan's room. We still need a new desk for the computer, since we'll be moving that downstairs. We shopped around a bit today, but alas, to no avail. I really hate when I have Kevin ready and willing to buy buy buy and I can't even find anything I like.

Regarding E, I have heard from her sporadically, but mainly it hits me that when we return from Maryland, she will be due in just three weeks! It seems so soon. That is all the time we have left to get her room ready. Kevin will go back to work for a week or two, but then he has his two weeks vacation in August. He will be off when she arrives, but he goes back the following week. And I heard from the agency rep. She is having her orientation meeting on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Choke. Oh well. Hopefully the weather will be nice for the rest of the weekend. We usually like to go to the beach that Saturday and that Monday, but we can adapt.

Well, in other news, Brian is having his two teeth extracted tomorrow afternoon. He has to see the ortho first to have the wire removed from the brackets, then he gets the teeth pulled at 1. I guess after that it will be milkshakes for a day or two. My plan for Tuesday, weather permitting, is to drive to Cape May, have a chicken salad and lemonade lunch at McGlades, if we can find parking, and then drive onto a ferry to Delaware. Then we'll head on out to Silver Spring. I would like to ride the DC Ducks and visit the Air/Space museum with Brian while we're there, but we will only have two days, so we'll see.