The softball tournament wrapped on Tuesday, and again we had a good showing! We played the Rahn’s church first, and played a really close game all the way through until the end, when with the score tied Chris H scored from first on a single with two throwing errors to give us a 5-4 win. Bob and I also turned a sweeeeet double play on a liner to second with a pickoff of a runner at first. I love doing that. That put us into the championship game against the regular season champs, a team that we smoked about 6 weeks ago but had destroyed the other of the final four teams in the early game. We played well, played from behind most of the game and even took a 1-run lead into the last inning but they won 10-9. We got a runner-up certificate and a $100 prize for the church instead of trophies, nice. Wednesday was the first day of school, specifically the first day of high school for Alex. It’s hard to wrap my head around that still. He had a good day though, but Nat told us that nobody even spoke to her all day and she wishes Beth could home school her so she doesn’t have to go back to that place. The second day went better though, and we realized later that she forgot to take her meds the day before the first day, so that may have been why it was so rough. FCC Kids / Revolution started back up again also. Unfortunately for me, Nat’s counselor can only see her on Wednesday evenings, so Beth is going to be taking her there and I will do the kids class myself. And we have an unusually...rowdy…difficult….group of kids. I was not able to do the lesson at all because I was too busy doing riot control. I asked for some assistance for going forward. We went to the middle school to meet & greet with the teachers Thursday evening and to walk around the school with the girls. Missy is taking a Chinese class, amazing. From that, I surmise that middle school is about the same as it has been. We deliberately set aside the weekend for nothing on the schedule, so it was pretty quiet. I ran a bit but my ankle started to hurt and the my knee started to hurt after about 5 miles so I quit there instead of running through it, so I guess I’m learning there. In the evening on Saturday, Natalie heard from a best friend of hers and literally got on her knees and begged for us to let her go meet him at the park in Winona Lake. We did, with the condition that we meet him first and they stay at the beach. All of us went to Winona, and we left them at the park for a while as the rest of us went to Rocket Fizz. From what we’ve been told, he’s talked her out of suicide attempts in the past and is *not* a boyfriend, so we wanted to let her see him and that seemed to make her really happy. And on Sunday, Gary made her a cake. I’m not sure why exactly, I think it’s due to something between them when he came to visit her in the hospital. She made one for him too last week.