My daughter Jessica participated in “JV” league wrestling finals last night.
Harker
has a mixed boy and girl folk-style wrestling team, as do most of the Bay
Area High Schools in the Santa Clara
Valley Athletic League (SCVAL). Wrestling, unlike most sports, does
not segregate on gender or public/private school lines.
The Junior Varsity wrestling season is now over
(although Varsity continues for two more weeks). Jessi lost her
first two matches but won her final fight, ending this year well.
Her elbow and toe hurt and she is blooming with little bruises but
she is happy with her performance.
To celebrate Jessi no longer having to keep her weight within 2 pounds
of her weight class target, we went out to dinner last night and she ate
pizza and two desserts. We celebrated at Mio Vicino on Lincoln Avenue in
Willow Glen which has an amazing apple and raisin bread pudding and
good chocolate cake. We even bought Jessica a bunch of purple roses from
the little Grandma who walks around the restaurant with a bucket of
flowers to sell.
Jessi is now furthering her celebrations by cooking German apple pancakes
and date raisin bread for Saturday breakfast. The entire family is very
appreciative that she relaxes by learning to bake something new. Jessi
is the only kid I know who carries
Baking Illustrated around with her for light reading.
My son Paul is sleeping in. The celebration last night was for him too
since he was awarded
Jordan’s “Student of the Month” again. As soon as Paul is out of bed
and we have devoured Jessi’s latest kitchen experiments, we start to take
out our swimming pool. We will reuse the deck boards on the caboose so we
need to take them out carefully.
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