LOL!!! Joleen, I saw you are in Montana. I don't know how rural the part you are in is, but it's pretty desolate where I am in New Mexico, and the school is just about all the activities we have here. Our school is pre-k thru 12 all in the same building, with almost 300 total enrollment. Our sports are limited to 6-man-football and basketball and baseball for boys, volleyball, basketball, and cheerleading for girls. If you are at all athletic, you do it all. The basketball games are all on one night. When the girls get done playing theirs, they change clothes so they can cheer for the boys. Some are on JV, Varsity, and still cheer! Nearly all the kids do 4-H, and nearly all do Future Farmers Of America. That's just the way it is. At least you don't have to try out for anything, you just sign up and your in! LOL! And when you are MILES from other children nearby, running around is just part of it.

When I'm feeling overwelmed, I just remember that some day they will all be grown and I will want these days back. And when they are grown, there will be plenty of ME time. Someday the house will be quiet and empty and I will wonder where these days went when I felt pulled every which way.

And now, a word from our sponsers, a diaper company, because I must change a stinky one! LOL!