Absolute Joy

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Everyone is back from Dallas now.  So let me give a recap of what has happened:

Thursday:
Evan and I drove up to Dallas for the funeral.  When Evan saw Noah, he picked Noah up and hugged him.  He completely ignored Rachel.  The funeral services were very nice and the amount of people who came showed what an impact that Shirley had made.

Friday:
I worked from Dallas in the morning.  I went with Rachel to the oncologist for a normal checkup.  Everything was fine.  Then Evan and I drove back to Dallas.  Traffic was tough as it was graduation for UT on Saturday.

Saturday:
Evan had another playoff game.  Unfortunately, the team lost.  Evan was in a bad mood most of the day. I think he was over tired from a very tough week.  In the late afternoon/evening we went to Matt and Rachael's for Matt's birthday.  Rachel took Noah swimming in Dallas and there was another service on Saturday night.

Sunday:
I took Evan to the field at Clayton and pitched to him for about 45 minutes.  We used balls as opposed to wiffle balls.  He did pretty well.  Then he went over to his friend Daniel's house.  Daniel is a boy from the baseball team who lives around the corner.  He was there for a couple hours.  Then I picked Evan up and took him to the new pool.  Daniel and his family met us there so Evan played more with Daniel at the pool.  They were in the pool for an hour and a half.  We got Little Caesar's for dinner.  Rachel and Noah were at Bubbe's helping clean up the house.

Today:
I took Evan to school as normal.  He was good this morning.  Rachel drove home from Dallas with Noah and Lizzy.  They got home in time to pick Evan up from school.  I took the boys to tennis while Rachel tutored.  The boys did well there again.  Noah did very well.  Afterwards the coach said to me that it was an "absolute joy" watching Noah play tennis and how much he enjoyed it.  When we got home, we walked to Jack's house.  I had picked up the trophy from the baseball season after the game on Saturday.  Jack had left by that point.  We came home and I made dinner for the boys and got dinner ready for Rachel and me for when she got home.

The boys are now in bed but not sleeping.

Until next time...