Basketball - Volleyball - Football Oh My

The last few months have been a mix of Owen and Luke’s basketball, Roger and Luke’s volleyball and Roger playing football.  We have spent many a Saturday in the city jumping from gym to gym loving watching the Flory boys playing sports. 

Owens basketball

Owens team is the winning team. We keep trying to get him to shoot, but he explained to us his job is to pass to the open player and set the screen. He did a very good job of it too.

Bringing the ball up

Luke is not the tallest on his basketball team. He is quickest though. He loves to bring the ball up nd he has no trouble shooting if he’s open. This game the team scored 24 Luke had 20.

Serving underhand

Luke’s volleyball team didn’t win many, but those boys had the best time. Luke learned the overhand serve this year and tried it out a few time. 

Roger settter

Roger’s team played some very competitive opponents. His team won a few. Roger was the team cheerleader and he caught on real quick how to bump the ball over the net on the third hit.

Mary was coach assistant 

I tried to get a picture of Mary with both Luke and Roger in between their games. She was helping the head coach with both teams. 

Indoor football

And my favorite to watch (I know your not supposed to have favorites, but come on Football indoors) was Roger playing indoor football. We did get to see his team win a few. 

Group photo

Yeah our Saturdays were spent going around the northern suburbs of Chicago, but Mike and wouldn’t have it any other way. We loved every minute of watching these guys play and are looking forward to spring sports. 

Stacy is Recognized

 Stacy from early on knew that she wanted to be a teacher in Special Ed.

She has spent all her teaching years with D300 at Hampshire Middle School. Going from 6th grade and settling with the eighth graders. I could see her dedication to her students. Now D300 has finally recognized it too. She was nominated for Educator of the Year 2023!

They had a dinner honoring the nominees and announcing a winner. 

Stacy is not one to seek out attention or bask in the limelight. She likes to go about her business - do her job -WELL, and go home. Not one for fanfare.

Too bad. She was the well deserved pride of Hampshire Middle School for one evening.

Her friends from HMS

Her Family

She had a good showing of support when they announced her name as a nominee. She was pretty certain she wasn’t gonna to win and didn’t even have a speech ready. (neither did her principal). A 3rd grade teacher from Sleepy Hollow won. In this case it really is wonderful just to be nominated.

It didn’t matter to anyone sitting at her table. She was our winner. 

We all screamed and shouted when she was announced. The biggest and loudest was her son Logan. He told me that “Mom always came and cheered for me, now it’s my turn to support her.” Love him!

Cheers to Mom

Logan just turned 21 a couple weeks ago and bought his mom a toast drink.  He offered to buy me one, but I declined. I thought it was something for just the 2 of them to share.

He has decided to follow in his mothers footsteps and is studying to be a teacher of History and has his sights on coaching Football. 

I’m so proud of you Stacy. You’re a great teacher and a great mentor to your son.❤️

Lights out AGAIN

So our power went our last Friday night. We knew the storms were coming and we both had our phones charged and flashlights and lantern in view. I was in the basement (no surprise there) . Mike joins me just as the power went out. 

It was a chilly night and the damage in the neighborhood was extensive. Our road was blocked by fallen tree, which the township came be cleared before the morning. We head out for my coffee, gotta have coffee and saw this. This is what happened to our neighbors. 

Thru the roof.

2 huge limbs fall thru their roof down to the basement. Fire dept. came and told them they had to leave and turned off their gas - power was already out. They both are in their late eighties and refused to leave. So sad…

Turns out the wind took down some trees that took down 2 power poles 5 houses down from us. One pole had to be replaced - I think they just straighten the other. Anyway wires were hanging all the way down to our house. 

Have to hand it to ComEd they were right there. One morning in full force. 12 trucks.

Lining our street

They needed to get to the pole behind our neighbor nd the clearest path is thru our side yard. Not sure if these guys are idiots or just don’t care. BUT IT RAINED ALL NIGHT. They got the bucket truck stuck in the mud before they could get to the pole. The workers had to climb the pole old school. 

I wonder how they are going to get that truck out. Oh I know get another truck to pull it out. IT RAINED ALL NIGHT! That truck gets stuck too. I went out there told them I appreciate the quick work that they are doing and please could you stay off of our septic field. Then we left the house. I couldn’t watch.

2 truck now stuck

This is what we came home too. Our side yard is destroyed. Breaks my heart.

I know they have a job to do. I know they don’t want to make a mess of anybody’s yard. We have no control over it. They promised to have a landscape company come fix it. I have to trust them. 

2 days later, it storms again. We now have a lake we call Lake ComEd.

Rain, Rain, go away