Just plain old good news

Ok, so after the above deep thinking post, here is non-deep. Just a plain old, want-to-share moment.
Last year Big Fry started 4-H archery. A little painful to watch at first, arrows flying, arrows thunking. In the bulls eye, not in the bulls eye, and once or twice in SOMEONE else's bullseye. He barely made the minimum score to make it to state.
Fast foward to this year he doesn't get pe (see below) and therefore is upset because he can't try out for the archery team for the school when they do the archery unit. He proceeds to go to PE teacher and tell him he wants to try out. The teacher shrugs, says well you haven't done the unit you probably won't do well, but show up tomorrow with your bow. I take him. The kid not only shows up, he rocks. He tells me after hitting the first bullseye, then the second, then the third, the teacher tells him he doesn't need to see anymore.
They head off to the Lakota Nation Invitational tournment where he comepetes against all the other middle school teams, probably at least 100 kids or more. He rocks it, takes 4th-with a broken sight and all-he reminds us. Ha ha pe teacher

Second good news, Big Fry has to take dreaded math intervention, he did not inherit his father's math prowess. He grumbles, he whines. You see in order to take math intervention you lose a fun class, like ummmm pe. Today math intervention teacher calls me, tells me she would like to give him the opportunity to go it solo. He has worked really hard she says. We say go for it.

Third good news. While on the phone with same math teacher, who happens to have her kindergartner go to my school, she thanks me. Her little guy had a tough time on Friday. Getting his name on the board just didn't agree with him, and it was all downhill from there. He and I talk about "oops" life is full of them, so don't let the "oops" get you. He dictates while I email his dad (also a teacher) who was distraught by his beavior that all is good. A thank you from a parent, those are few and far between and the last piece of good news.

Here is wishing you some good news this week.