Jury duty and Karate Test

Yesterday I spent all morning at the courthouse for jury duty. I have to say I was really glad I wasn't picked for the jury because it was a trial for child sexual abuse and I honestly really don't want those kinds of things in my head when I already worry so much about my kids. My awesome sil watched the kiddies for me and Liam didn't even cry the whole time which is really good. I hope that he is getting more used to other people. When I got there to pick the kids up Em wanted the cousins to come play at our house so we had the two oldest come and they played all afternoon. It was great except for that it made it so Liam couldnt' really nap since they were a bit on the loud side. ;) Emily always has so much fun with Camden beasue they are both very creative people and are happy doing the same things even though he's 4 years younger than her. :)

Then last night Jason tested for a new belt in karate. He went with Dad to the test and the rest of us stayed home. I guess he did well, but he has some bad habits of sloppiness that he has to fix and be signed off by his teacher before he gets his belt. I hope this is a lesson for him, but he doesn't seem to really care all that much. We require him to practice karate 5 of every 6 days for 20 minutes, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't do his best and is kinda sloppy when he practices and that has shown up in his test now. I hope he'll figure out that practicing good is better than slopping through and making more work to re-train himself.