March Madness - A once divided household

So this week will be the biggest game in the bluegrass's history. Basketball is a religion in Kentucky. We don't have any professional teams, UofL and UK is it. When the tournament got underway I thought that this was definitely UK's year. The team is crazy talented and the year that Craig and I met they won it all. 1996 we were still and high school and hadn't formally met yet but we were making decisions that would later be apart of the grand plan and we weren't even aware. We met fall semester in 1996.

During the tournament this year UofL kept winning and low and behold they are up against the Cats in the final 4. I looked back at the blog to see what we were doing this time last year. We traveled to TX to see UK play in the final 4. It was a great weekend to forget what was going on and just be together. I miss him like crazy and I miss the UofL vs. UK banter that would have gone in this house this week. The girls and I would have hid all his UofL gear with the theory that that would have left him with only BLUE to wear. We did this a couple years ago one Friday afternoon before the UK vs. UofL football game. Emily thought it was hilarious and still talks about it. We would have ranted back and forth about the coaches, how one seemed like he retired at the beginning of the season and forgot to tell the staff. The other one would have commented how one coach had to turn in his winnings. blah blah. It would have gone on and on this week. I would have set the dinner table using only the UK cups for dinner. He would have gotten up and dumped his ice cold beverage out and put it in a nasty plastic red cup. He would have spouted off sports stats like he owned ESPN and I would come back with whatever, we'll see what the score board says Saturday evening.
I miss him. I miss my in-house in-state rivalry.
People say Craig is pulling strings for UofL. I'm not sure. I really think we wouldn't have bantered back and forth but in the end he would have agreed that the Blue team really does deserve it more with the way they played the season. We shall see. I still think they are going all the way... spoken like a True Blue fan.

Craig if there are blogs in heaven, I miss you, I love you and I will see you... and Go Cats. Oh and I love you.