Wow - what a week! I found out Tuesday that the Academic Team regional competition I thought was March 15 turned out to be February 15!!!! We were supposed to compete last weekend, but the snow postponed it and the boneheaded secretary at my school told me March. The Athletic Director came into my room at lunch on Tuesday and was like, are y'all ready to go tomorrow???!!!! Holy crap! I was livid! So, I spent all afternoon rushing around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to pull something together - the hosting school is 3.5 hours away, so we had to spend the night. I got everything squared away, but I had to leave school immediately because Brad and I had plans for V-Day.

Brad outdid himself again. We don't get out much, so we generally try to do something nice for V-Day. We went out to eat at this cute German restaurant and then went to see Romeo and Juliet at the Blackfriar's Playhouse in Staunton. It's an amazing Shakepearean theatre - the only one in the world! It's my favorite date-spot, so it was awesome!

Fastforward to Wednesday. Gathered my four competitors and left school at noon. We got to the host school and had a blast competing. I love my kids! They are so knowledgable, but are so socially well-adapted. They're cool people. Our school hasn't made it to the regional level in 7 years so just showing up to this tournament was a huge deal. They won the first round, but lost the next two - but I just found out that the schools they lost to were the top two of the night and will advance to States. That makes me feel a lot better. We had a couple hotel rooms and had a great time staying up late chatting. We took our time coming back today, but we eventually had to get back to school. Love those kids!!!!!! My team is pictured below - they're the best!

So anyway, here it is, late Thursday afternoon, and the last time I drew a deep breath was Tuesday morning. Crazy. I'm chapperoning the school dance tomorrow night, but after that I'm chilling out for a while...