Austin is having a hard time with wrestling this year.
They have a new coach. He's tough on them - very tough.
As much as I liked the old coach, I don't think he always pushed them as hard as they needed.
I think this new guy may be pushing them a little too hard at times.
For instance, the week of Thanksgiving - there was no school all week.
And yet, they had practice every day (even Sat) except for Thanksgiving day itself.
Then, this past weekend when they went to the beach - they were gone from 6 AM on Thurs morning until 10:30 PM on Sun night.
I thought they would at least have the following Mon off. Nope - practice as usual.
I think there's a fine line between not hard enough and too hard.
Yes, I think he's going to take a great team and make them fantastic.
But...will it be at the expense of their morale, their drive, their hearts?
Austin has been wrestling for 11 years now. That's a long time.
He's saying now that he's going to finish the season because he's already started it, but he's no longer sure he wants to wrestle again next year.
I'm not okay with that.
After 11 years - 1000's of hours - bathtubs full of sweat ... to not do it his senior year???
No way!
That's supposed to be his 'glory' year.
That's when it all pays off, and he's supposed to reap some of the privileges and benefits.
I SO want him to see this all the way thru to the end.
I'd even be willing to bribe him at this point to achieve that.
You see - Austin's dream dog is a Great Pyrenees.
He's wanted one for at least 2 years now.
And it just so happens that when we were doing Leila's 6 month speech evaluation last week, it came up in conversation that Mrs. Lisa has a friend that has Great Pyrenees puppies right now.
They're full-blooded, but not registered, so the price isn't unreasonable.
Hmmm, is this fate? Is it maybe meant to be?
Are we absolutely nuts though to even consider the possibility of adding yet another animal to our menagerie?
Any thoughts???
On a lighter note, Courtney came on Sun to keep Leila while we went to the play.
Leila wanted her to sit on the couch with her and hold her hand.
We're thinking that she's imitating Austin and Kelsie.
How cute.
BUT, I told them that if she starts copying anything else - they're in trouble.
Leila and I both had our hair trimmed today.
After she trimmed it, Kim took a curling iron and put curls all over Leila's head.
It was just too cute.
(Sort of reminded me just a little bit of Emmi's wig on Gotcha Day.)
And Leila loved the extra primping and prissing she got.
We’re David and Lois McBeath. We live in Point Pleasant, WV – a small town along the Ohio River on the western side of the state. We have 2 sons. Austin is 15. He’s a sophomore at Pt. Pleasant High School. Darrell is almost 12. He’s in the 6th grade at Roosevelt Elementary.
We actually began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago. I saw an ad in the newspaper about Chinese babies. We called about it, but it just wasn’t even feasible at that time in our life. All these years, it was always there, stuck somewhere in the back of our minds. I don't know why exactly – it just was. The thought never completely went away.
We also talked off and on about having another child. Our house was only 3 bedrooms, and we know the boys could have been in a room together, but we didn't want to do that if we didn't have to. In the spring of 2006, for some reason (I don't recall exactly what) - it came up again. We started thinking and talking - why not? So we started checking into it more. We did a lot of research online. The more we found out, the more we felt a calling, a desire and even a need to do this.
We started the adoption and added onto the house all at the same time. It took about 6 months to get the paperwork together. Then about another month after we sent it to China for them to translate it and 'log us in' (11/6/06). That's when we started to officially wait.
We finally got "THE CALL" on 7/13/08. It was a Sunday afternoon! After 2 ½ years, we are finally going to get our baby!
We actually began our adoption journey more than 10 years ago. I saw an ad in the newspaper about Chinese babies. We called about it, but it just wasn’t even feasible at that time in our life. All these years, it was always there, stuck somewhere in the back of our minds. I don't know why exactly – it just was. The thought never completely went away.
We also talked off and on about having another child. Our house was only 3 bedrooms, and we know the boys could have been in a room together, but we didn't want to do that if we didn't have to. In the spring of 2006, for some reason (I don't recall exactly what) - it came up again. We started thinking and talking - why not? So we started checking into it more. We did a lot of research online. The more we found out, the more we felt a calling, a desire and even a need to do this.
We started the adoption and added onto the house all at the same time. It took about 6 months to get the paperwork together. Then about another month after we sent it to China for them to translate it and 'log us in' (11/6/06). That's when we started to officially wait.
We finally got "THE CALL" on 7/13/08. It was a Sunday afternoon! After 2 ½ years, we are finally going to get our baby!
Leila Ann McBeath, formally known as Shun Xi Yi, was born on Oct 29, 2007. She had a cleft lip and cleft palate. The lip has been repaired, but not the palate. (We'll have to do that when we get her home.) She's in the Children's Welfare Institute of Shunde District of Foshan City, which is located in the Guangdong Province, in the southern part of China.
Shunde, the hometown of flowers, is one of four cities under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. Covering an area of 806 sq meters and with a population of 1.05 million, Shunde City is situated in the middle of the fertile Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It was set up as a county in the 3rd year (1452 AD) of the Jintai reign of the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), and conferred with the administrative status of a city in 1992 by the State Council.
Foshan City is also where the actor Bruce Lee was from.
Shunde, the hometown of flowers, is one of four cities under the jurisdiction of Foshan City. Covering an area of 806 sq meters and with a population of 1.05 million, Shunde City is situated in the middle of the fertile Pearl River Delta, between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. It was set up as a county in the 3rd year (1452 AD) of the Jintai reign of the Ming Dynasy (1368-1644), and conferred with the administrative status of a city in 1992 by the State Council.
Foshan City is also where the actor Bruce Lee was from.
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