Hannah’s first tournament

As I’m sure I mentioned previously, Hannah, too, is playing club volleyball this winter. It’s her second year spending the off-season getting more playing time and improving her skills. It proved extremely valuable for her last year when she stepped on the court as a freshmen and was a leader on the JV team. Playing [...]


Pat   |  HKS, Volleyball   |  01 25th, 2009    |  No Comments »

December SooM

I know you’ve probably seen these things a million times, but since it made the school’s web page I thought I’d link to it. Congratulations to Hannah for being chosen Student of the Month at Marshall High School!


Pat   |  HKS   |  01 22nd, 2009    |  No Comments »

Clare’s first tournament

Now that the club volleyball season is in full swing, our weekends are filling up quickly. As was previously posted, Clare is participating in volleyball this year for Midwest Juniors on their 13s Blue team. The team travelled to Oregon, WI last weekend to play in their first tournament of the year. There were two [...]


Pat   |  CMS, Volleyball   |  01 16th, 2009    |  No Comments »

Club volleyball is under way

This past Sunday, Midwest Juniors hosted a mostly intrasquad scrimmage among their various teams. The pools were divided by age and, luckily for us, the girls both played at the same time (but not against each other). Hannah is playing on a 15s Regional team this year and Clare is with the lone 13s squad. [...]


Pat   |  CMS, HKS, Volleyball   |  01 5th, 2009    |  No Comments »

It all started with Smart Playlists

Let’s get a few assumptions out of the way: 1. You have an iPod 2. You use iTunes 3. You haven’t quite figured out all of the features of either one I’m not saying I know it all – far from it, actually – but I do like to play around in the software and [...]


Pat   |  Geek, MMS   |  01 2nd, 2009    |  No Comments »