Lily kicked off soccer season this weekend with the Baltimore Mania tournament. I was really eager to see her play especially since she has been practicing so hard in the cold temperatures since mid Feb. This weekend they played their heart out, in the sleet, snow, and pelting freezing rain! We are really proud of the improvements she has made!
Lily officially has her Driver's Learner's Permit! She completed her 30-hour class and took her driver's permit test a few weeks ago. She had her first formal driving lesson with an instructor last weekend and has been doing some light driving around neighborhoods and short roads.
Unfortunately, this past Christmas was not the fantastic family experience we were all looking forward to this year, as the Covid pandemic continues to rage, but we made the best of it! Poor Lily came down with a headache and low-grade fever Christmas Eve, and a rapid test confirmed Christmas morning that she was indeed positive for COVID-19. Thankfully it was a very mild infection and she was bouncing back after 2 days! Thankfully, my sister and her family had already canceled their flights due to the overwhelming cancellations of flights due to lack of staff because of Omnicron, Covid and we are able to protect my dad. I'm not sure if the rest of us had it or not, because access to testing was extremely limited.
Lily started driver's education online during the break and has reported that is soooo boring. She goes to take her driver's permit test on Saturday!!!!
Girl finally got sprung free for New Year's eve and got to go spend the night with a girlfriend! Girl was a trooper during quarantine! Thankfully midway through her quarantine they reduced the time from 10 days to 5! Yipee!! Like the virus cares right?? LOL
Anyway here's to a happy and hopefully healthy new year!
I tell you, this girl has it all going on! She's smart, sexy, super fit and strong, beautiful, and at least from my perspective she appears confident in herself! Last night was her soccer banquet where she was recognized for her participation in the LHS JV soccer program. She totally rocked her little black dress! It was fun to see her recognized for all her hard work!
Also, since we have located Lily's biological mom, we have sent a yearly Christmas basket. This week, we received updated photographs of Lily's birth family. Unfortunately, because so many families need to receive baskets, we only received photographs, but not updates.
Since the beginning of the school year, there has been a young man in Lily's classes who has taken an interest in her. They have enjoyed time at homecoming together and met up at a football game. I am sure they talk and Snapchat each other all the time as well. She had been asking about possibly going out on a "date" with him so after some contemplation we decided that we wanted to meet this young man first and so we planned a family date last night. Got to give the young man credit, he did well meeting his interest's parents. We had a fun time going to eat dinner and going to Spinner's pinball arcade (vintage pinball machines and arcade games like Atari, Sega, PS4, etc. As well as old consoles such as Pacman, Pong, and Frogger, just to name a few. Then before we took him home we enjoyed an ice cream at Dairy Queen. A fun night was had by all.
