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Good morning! It’s a beautiful day so far. Yesterday was pretty nice as well but Saturday was brutal.

Yesterday Seth and Joseph (or maybe it was Seth and Cedric) were complaining that we have boring Family Home Evenings and that other families we know do more fun things. While I fully believe that true boredom is the sign of a boring mind rather than boring surroundings, I thought we could combine my desire to watch Star Wars with something that we can learn. For example, are we not all confronted with choices every day? I’ve already faced several and I’ve only been awake for less than an hour and a half. So, we watched Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith. In it, several of the characters face choices but perhaps none of them are so life changing, even galaxy changing, as Anakin’s are. And he doesn’t always make bad ones, just mostly bad ones.

For example, my list looked like this (those marked with asterisks are good, or decent choices, even if not the best):

buzz droids

not leaving Obi Wan*

killing Dooku

not leaving Obi Wan behind*

not telling Obi Wan about the baby

talking to Yoda*

anger at not being granted rank of Jedi Master

devotion to Palpatine

apologizes to Obi Wan*

not attempting to kill Palpatine

tells Mace Windu that Palpatine is a Sith Lord*

does not wait at Jedi Temple

remorse*

go to Jedi Temple

kill Younglings

chooses ‘the Republic’

‘takes care’ of Separatists

remorse after*

refuses to go with Padme

That’s quite a list and it isn’t even remotely complete. So it is with our lives. Each day, each hour, even each minute or second, we face choices. Sometimes we make good ones, sometimes we make bad ones. Sometimes those choices we make are good but could be better. Sometimes we don’t know at the time how good or bad they are but find out later.

Our trip to That $1.99 Fabric Store was nice. Seth and Joseph even had fun because Julia let them play games on her phone. We stopped for ice-cream cones on the way home because they’d been so good. Each of us got some fabric that we are very happy about and we are looking forward to going again this week. Well, I don’t know if Seth and Joseph are looking forward to it but Julia and I are and I think Laura is although it might depend on how much money she has available how much she is.

No one can accuse me of being an exceptionally good photographer of soccer games but it's still nice to have a reminder of my boys when they are playing. Seth's shirt is his old one from Quabbin soccer because they were registered too late and there weren't enough shirts for Seth to have one. I'm not sure he'll get one to  match the team but that's okay.

Saturday, as mentioned, was brutal. It was hot and it was humid. It was a good day to do nothing. That, however, was not on our list.

I really like this one of Cedric. How do you like his make up?

 It was Field Day in Hubbardston and Cedric’s scout patrol was scheduled to help from 8:30 to whatever time so I dropped him off and then went back home to get ready. Then we all went about 9:15 ready to go to soccer in Petersham. Seth and Joseph didn’t do much more than do a little to help set up the Raingutter Regatta. That was kind of cool even though the boys didn’t make boats. Daniel made a wooden boat for one when we were in Idaho. Laura didn’t remember even though she did the design on his sail.

This one is good because it has both boys and the ball.

Laura went with us to watch the boys play soccer. Based on Joseph’s behavior (which wasn’t terrible but he wasn’t too excited about sitting in the sun doing nothing), he might stay home for the remainder of at least the away games. At least those in Hubbardston he can play on the playground. I really love watching the boys play and Saturday’s game was an excellent one to see.

Cedric running. He did really well this game.

I wondered how Cedric and Seth would be playing on the same team. I like that they are because it means everything is consolidated and I/we don’t have to be going constantly to practice and juggling game times. They were really good and worked well together. Cedric even got a goal, the second of the either three or four that the team got. Seth made an attempt but it didn’t go in. I really wish that I could record the entire game and then just save the occasional frame for pictures. I did get some pictures but not many. Anyway, it’s nice having a large team because the coaches are able to sub players often which helps the player stay fresh (if such a thing is possible on a sweltering day such as Saturday was).

Being goalie can be quite exciting. Seth played well, also.

And that is all for today; many things to do. Have a spectacular one!