School Starts today!
As is our tradition, we took our familiar first-day-of-school photo on the front porch this morning. One noticeable absence from the picture this year is Mrs. Schommer, who will not be in a classroom for the first time in nearly 20 years. (She can give you the details if you’re interested – moving on, moving [...]
Fantastic Gymnastics Finish
Congratulations to Clare for finishing her first year in AAU gymnastics last weekend! Reedsburg High School was the venue for the AAU state meet, for which she qualified earlier in the year. The quick summary is that she earned two top 5 medals in beam and bars and took 9th on vault in the 13-year-old [...]
A full 1/2 weekend
Immediately after school on Friday, being all packed and ready to go we, all piled in the vehicle and headed to Wisconsin Dells for a rare Friday night gymnastics meet. As you might guess, it was Clare who competed with her Madtown Twisters team at the big puffy dome on the Chula Vista resort grounds. [...]
To the Slopes!
With the kids off from school Friday, I took the day off and Clare and I decided to get some skiing in at Tyrol Basin in Mount Horeb. We’ve never been there, they have cheap weekday lift tickets, and the conditions were right. Twelve bucks for a lift ticket? Bargain. Near 32 degrees? Count me [...]
First Day of School, 2009
Continuing the tradition another year (our ninth), the first day of school had me bring out the ladder to take a group shot at the front of the house. Beautiful weather blessed us again and everyone was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed extra early. Obviously, that was a one-and-done event as the week wore on. The rest [...]
One under her belt
Here’s a quick look at Clare’s balance beam routine for this season. Competing at the Intermediate Optional level in AAU for the first time, she gets to make up her own routines on the events and pick her music for her floor exercise. Even though it was only an intrasquad meet, she finished with 2 [...]
Summer’s Over
According to the girl’s’ schedules, I think we can declare summer over. At high schools all across the state of Wisconsin this week, girls are are digging through their long-forgotten volleyball bags looking for their shoes, kneepads, tape, etc. Volleyball practice (two-a-day!) began in Marshall Monday with a morning conditioning practice followed by an afternoon [...]
Summer continues
We’re sort of in a lull (just for today), so I thought I’d give a quick summertime update. Chronologically speaking… Hannah had a great time at volleyball camp at UW-Whitewater two weeks ago. Even though she was a little under the weather on the final day, she got much needed work as a setter. A [...]
Service Day 2009
Both Marshall Middle School and High School have a tradition of involving the kids in a some kind of community service during the year. This year’s service day was during the half-day on Wednesday, and both of the girls were signed up to help their respective schools. Clare was assigned to a classroom in her [...]
Over
Seems like everything is over. Finally, there’s a bit of a lull at the Schommer household. To wit: The girls’ birthdays are over. Happy birthday again (x2) to las chicas. Now that both girls have officially moved into the teen years, I hope you’ll pray for us. Good times ahead, to be sure. I’ve included [...]
