Breakfast conversation this AM:

Me. What’s your math test on today

C. All that vocabulary. Yuck (makes frown face)

L (slumps in his church dejectedly). Vocabulary?!?  Math isn’t supposed to have vocabulary tests. 

Me. Relax. You don’t have to worry about it for 3 years. And it’s just this one section. 

C. Yeah, and next it algebra. And that’s fun!!

Clem had her final regular season cross country meet on Friday. She didn’t want to run XC. She only agreed to do it as preseason training for skiing. 

Then she started running and discovered she’s good at it. And Coach Karin started encouraging her. And her competitive streak kicked in. First race she was second to last of Jag women. By mid-season she’d caught the junior she’s been training with. This week, she passed all the Jag women who had already qualified for Regionals except one, Quinn. 

So when I picked her up after the meet, she in vibrate mode she’s so excited. Tells me all about it. Then still can’t sit still. Exclaims:

“I fell like I’m on my own personal cloud of “yea me!””