Trapped at home

There's this huge basketball tournament going on in Rapid City called the Lakota Nation Invitational. It sounds racist, maybe it is I dunno, but basically all the schools that have Lakota students gather together and host four days of basketball, wrestling, Lakota Language Bowl, Lakota Knowledge Bowl, etc. for the kids in those schools. It's a huge deal to win anything there. So, because all their parents want to go and watch their kids, the schools also host workshops. Other tribal organizations also host workshops, and everyone on the reservations in SD decamp to Rapid City for those four or five days. Basically, ten thousand Indians descend on Rapid City the last weekend before Christmas each year, and this is the 35th anniversary of Lakota Nation Invitational.

So, this year my mom had to go (she goes every year, always protesting that she hates it but she really couldn't stand to miss it.) I've been there once for a meeting and I really did hate it. My kids are not joiners of anything but band and Anime Club (which they founded), so they have never participated in LNI. Well, the problem with my mom going is that we are down to one car since my brother in law managed to ruin our old van and my mother's car last winter, and my mom had to take our newer van to Rapid for the meetings. So, anyway, stuck at home for three days no vehicle. I've played about forty hours of WoW (I got the new pets for Winter Veil), knit a pair of socks, scrubbed the fridge and threw away old food, baked, made truffles, finished the laundry, cleaned the kitchen and mopped the floor (this is rare because I usually make my sister do the mopping). There's more I am going to do in the next two days: I am hand-piecing a quilt for someone since my sewing machine broke down, making more cookies, preparing for P2 to come home from the hospital tomorrow, watching Christmas movies, etc. I am just enjoying my three or four days "trapped" at home with the kids.