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Watching Basketball

In January there were five Mondays. Gordon was a little put out by the fact that our third Monday guy night would be put off by an extra week in February. Wise man that he is, he declared that we should make guy night happen on third and fifth Mondays. Today was the first fifth Monday since then. It wasn't exactly guy night, but we had a really good time.

Originally we were going to make it "invite a friend" night. I invited Rob and Tim had somebody in mind but then things changed. It turned out that Tim was going to have his kids when he hadn't realized he would. Lexie to the rescue. We just invited everybody over to our house. Rob and Jill brought their two. Tim brought his three and Gordon and Jeanene brought their two younger ones. This worked out great: two toddler girls, three four-year-old boys, two grade school girls, and two middle school girls.

We bought a Slip-and-Slide and set up our little pool that my folks bought for the beach trip last year. We also got four new water guns. These are short lived devices here where our water is so full of deposits that gunk up the works. It was worth it. The boys, in Kevin's words, "played and played and played and played and played and played and played and played and played and played." The little ones had fun, too. The bigger girls didn't all come with swim suits. They all ended up getting wet. The really fun part was dressing them in my ancient t-shirts (Stryper '85 Tour, Epcot Center circa 1983, Camp Beechpoint high school mission trip to Michigan, and DA Who Are the Real Girls?) and bike shorts while their clothes ran in the dryer.

The Spurs were playing tonight and, for a change, the game was being shown on a broadcast network. The idea that folks would gather at my house to watch a basketball game is not one that I would make up. Given the outcome and superstitions of sports fans during the playoffs, it may not happen again. The game didn't start until seven-thirty and we got going at about five which gave us plenty of time for fun prior to tip-off.

Posted to Family and Home at May 30, 2005 10:17 PM