Nathanael’s second grade class is performing the classic holiday play ”The Nutcracker” tonight. Unfortunately Kevin
also has his first wrestling meet at the same time so we had the difficult decision of choosing which event to attend. It shouldn’t be a difficult decision since Nathanael treats me much nicer than Kevin and I tend to favor a kid who rubs my back and says “I love you to infinity and beyond…and back!” Kevin can hardly utter a hello unless I threaten
to shred his drivers license.

But we’ve never missed attending one of Kevin’s matches and for whatever reason I can’t bring myself to do it!

Sometimes it really does take a village, you know? I asked my daycare parents if I could bring the kids up to rehearsal this morning and then requested that they pick up their children three hours early so that we could leave in time to make the two hour drive for Kevin. Then I called in the help of my mother-in-law who will be here when the other kids arrive home from school. She is bringing Nathanael to the play tonight.

As the kids get older and more involved with sports and other school events I have a new understanding of why polygamists do that thing they do.