Went out antiquing this weekend with Beth and Nat. There is some sort of shop-local event going on in Pierceton, so Beth wanted to drop in at Kelsea Designs and see if there was anything she needed there. Turns out there was: she found a cut glass candy dish that is the exact same pattern that her mom had back in the day. We chatted with the proprietor and her mom for a while before moving on to Syracuse to get lunch and decide not to stop at the antiques places there, but instead move on to Nappanee and check out the place there. Beth found a glass that she really liked and a slag glass pitcher which she also liked, but decided she wouldn’t get both and only got the glass. I surprised her with it when we got home.

Friday was a game day at Trey’s for the work group. We all ditched work for a team building event, as it were. We went out to lunch at Biryani Kitchen (as per uzh) and then went to Trey’s for board games. We played a round of Codenames, a round of Wavelength and another of Rise of Augustus.

Alex has gone back to school for the home stretch until graduation. I think it was a really good thing that he came home; he had several appointments during the week, most notably with his counselor, and his  psychiatrist (and dentist, too!) and getting his meds adjusted. He’s felt so awful, so anxious, for a long time now and he finally started feeling better with the meds adjustment as it was time to go back. So we didn’t get to do a while lot this week, but it was still a good thing that he was here. 

I’ve taken my old bike to the Trailhouse to get the crank adjusted or fixed. There has been a creaking noise every revolution of the pedals for a while now that’s getting worse, but when I move my hells outwards it tends to stop. Annoying noise, and I don’t want to ride pigeon toed either, so hopefully they can replace the bearings (I assume that’s what it is) and it’ll be good to go. 

Wednesday we all went to Fort Wayne, Alex just wanted to go to the mall and shop around a bit for something to do. Nat and her friend came as well. Alex wanted to go to Potbelly in FW, he’s been a few times to one in WA and likes it so he thought it’s be fun for everyone to go. It’s a sub shop, basically….anyway, we hit the mall, mostly B&N for us and places like GameStop for him. A couple hours later, head home.

Friday was shoe shopping day. I’ve wanted to ditch the Sketchys I’ve been wearing because my feet hurt all the time now. Alex has worn out his shoes again, like he does, and since he needs a size 15 we went to Pilcher’s. We both found a nice pair of Brooks shoes.

Saturday, it was time for Alex to head back. But first, there was a Pokemon card pre-release even of some sort at a cards & gaming place downtown Warsaw, so I took Alex there. It was lasting longer than I thought it would so I wound up dropping him off and leaving, then picking him up later. Apparently, everyone there got some new Pokemon cards and got to trade them with others and play the battle game. He was there for a couple hours at least, said it was a really good time. We headed to Indy soon after he was done, leaving plenty of time since it was supposed to be so crowded, so of course it wasn’t and there was no traffic and we had time to kill when we got there. But he got off with no problems and Scott picked him up in Seattle. Not the most fun ever for a spring break, but it was good to have him here.

It must be getting close to being spring, because the church softball coaches meeting was last Tuesday. The season starts April 22, and as of now FCC still plans to have 2 teams (still going through signups) but the league commish can’t say how many teams will be in the league so we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out. 

Alex is home! He arrived on Saturday. Nobody was able to take him to the airport in Seattle so we told him to take an Uber there instead of parking in the long term lot, because even as expensive as it is, Uber is cheaper. The Uber was about $90, long term parking for a week at SeaTac would probably be at least $200, probably more. Anyway, Beth and I went to a kids’ business fair at North Webster Community Center (like last year) because some kids we know from church have businesses. Evora makes beaded jewelry and Liddie made stickers, and we saw a few others we know. We bought a few things that were cute. After that, we headed out to the Indy airport, and picked up Missy along the way to go with us. Alex got in without difficulties, his bags arrived where they were supposed to, and we headed back home again dropping Missy off along the way again. Got back home around 11, and Alex was so exhausted after the long travel day that he couldn’t get up for church.

Today is Selection Sunday, and my annual bad NCAA tournament bracket picks are in: I’ve picked Michigan State, Florida, Tennessee, and eventual champion Duke for the Final 4. I know I’m being a homer for MSU and really felt like I should have them no further than Elite 8, but what can you do. It’s just a free bracket at work with the only prize being your name written on a poster with a Sharpie. 

Since Missy’s been home this week for spring break, on Saturday we all went up to Michigan to visit family for the day. We started off going to the cottage to visit Ted for a couple hours, then hopped over to Stephanie’s for a few hours, then tracked down Ric at his friend’s house where they were out in a shack making maple syrup. They had the boiler going pretty hot and heavy and it was practically raining inside from all the steam condensing. We visited him there for a while before going out to look for somewhere to eat and heading home. 

Missy was also supposed to head back to Muncie on Sunday evening, but the weather was so bad (stormy) that she didn't want to drive back in it, so she decided to stay overnight tonight and go back tomorrow. She's already got things taken care of for class she'll miss tomorrow and it's no big deal. She's so organized.

Missy is home! She is on spring break. She left school on Friday and arrived late in the evening. Unfortunately the kids have spring breaks that are different weeks, so we're not going to be doing much that's fun....I'm going to be working like normal, Beth will be doing her normal things, and we'll just sort of try to do some fun things while she's here, but fun like shopping and going for coffee and not like vacation at the beach. Well, Missy's looking forward to some down time, and she should get plenty of it. She's got some appointments that we made while she'll be home too, but that's not real fun, I guess.

We did take her to a craft fair at Lakeview Middle School on Saturday. There were a lot of the usual suspects there, some baked goods, some sewn goods, some 3-D printed goods, some wooden goods...but two things really made it for us. One, we ran into several friends, in particular our old babysitters Katie (Katalee, who was running a shop selling cool stickers and magnets) and Jenny who was there with her bunch of kids, and two, there was a lady selling knitted goods and Missy found a pink knit dragon that she loved, but it cost $35 so she put it back, and a little bit later while Missy was talking with someone I snuck back and bought it and hid it in the car, and Missy didn't notice. I'm going to give it to her for her birthday :)