Summer Soccer 2025

As she has for the last three summers, Emily again played for SportingCT's semi-professional women's soccer team. She practiced three mornings a week and played in six games, earning more playing time and looking more and more confident as the summer went on. She played holding mid almost exclusively but even so, was able to score two goals - both of them game winners. She played the full 90 away against Albany, scoring in the 72nd minute to give her team a 1-0 win; and then in the final game of the season, she scored a header in the 79th minute to give her team a 3-2 win at Hudson Valley (and was +3 for the game). Despite the fact that I love to watch her score, her best game, in my opinion, was a 4-1 loss to Vale. She was on the field when Vale scored 3 goals early in the first half and was the cause of at least one of those. When she was subbed out, she took in what her coach had to say and when she returned to the field for the second half, she was lights out, so much so that her coach didn't sub her out in the second half and told her after the game how pleased she was with how good she looked and how she adapted. All of this work - plus all of the running and lifting - is in preparation for her sophomore season at Clarkson, which starts in two weeks!

Big game winner!

The smile says it all here - she was so pumped about how well she played and because she scored a header goal to win the game in the waning minutes.

Last day of training

Kitchen Remodel

After more than 20 years of living with a kitchen that was perfectly fine but one that we didn't love, we decided to bite the bullet and do a full renovation. Although we generally kept the same layout, we worked with a designer regarding colors, some design work and selection of materials. Our old kitchen was demolished on June 5th and our new kitchen was finally completed on August 2nd - more than eight weeks later. We went 5 1/2 long weeks without a stove, but cooked at home (grill and crock pot) all but three nights, which we all considered a huge success. We definitely got sick of eating the same foods over and over, that's for sure. But the kitchen was definitely worth the wait! We spend a lot of time in the kitchen, cooking, baking and hanging out, so it is nice to have something that is so sleek and easy to work in. 

Out with the old....

One of our friends is the CFO at the company we worked with - he snapped this photo of our Taj Mahal counters being cut the day before they were installed.

We love our faucet and the fact that our sink is molded into the countertop - no seam!

The day we got our stove back was a big one - it made the rest of the process a bit easier to deal with.

They finished while we were at the beach on vacation.

Beginning the massive process of unpacking our new dishes and putting everything away.

We still need window treatment, but here is the finished product.

Instagram Takeover

One of the big things in college sports right now is social media takeover - a player on the team "takes over" the Instagram account of a particular sport for a day, taking people through a day in their life.  Here is Emily's takeover of the Clarkson Women's Soccer Instagram account earlier this week: