Friday

I was off work so we got up, and due to poor grocery management at our house this week, hit McDonald's for breakfast (has anyone else started to suspect they're putting something addictive in those Cinnamon Melts?!?) and then headed across town to do round one of tennis matches.

All three girls are in tennis lessons this summer and on most Fridays, they play matches. Jordan and Claudia are in one of the beginner classes, so their matches ran from 8:30 to 10:00. After we finally found the place, they played while Sam and I watched.

Then we headed back across town to run some errands I had to get done yesterday, including picking up my migraine medicine from the pharmacy so I could try to get rid of the migraine I had all day yesterday. Then it was back to the McDonald's drive-through for lunch, because again, no groceries and no time to get any, and then we headed back across town to take Sammy to her match session at 1:00 (Sam's now in the intermediate class, so her matches ran from 1:00-3:00). Sam's mom and stepdad were there, and Sam was happy about that. So we watched Sam play and then stopped for gas, icees and candy, because I felt that we hadn't ingested quite enough crap yet that day (yes, I'm feeling pretty guilty about their diet for the day at this point) and then back across town to get ready for an anti-war rally we participated in downtown, which is, again, all the way across town, at 4:30.

After the rally, Jamie arrived home from work with groceries for dinner and then took the little girls swimming while I made dinner and watched the power point presentation Claudia made me to explain emo rock. It was so cool!

We decided to ditch our usual Friday night pizza in favor of something a little more nutritional to mitigate the junk from the rest of the day--roasted salmon, steamed broccoli, baked potatoes and water. Oh, and I threw together a strawberry short cake which wasn't too terrible with the fresh strawberries.

God, what a day, but it was worth it. All three girls have improved in tennis and Jordan's and Sam's swimming has improved a lot this year with Jamie taking them so often.