SOCCER!!

I finally remembered to sign the girls up for soccer! They ask me about it every year, after the season has already started--thank you Mother of the year! We have had a nice long break from soccer since we made Jordan narrow his extracurriculars to merely 3 sports per year! That's when I put it out of my mind forever. I actually thought maybe the girls wouldn't be so interested in the sports side of things, but Katy loved softball in the summer and who knew she could run like the dickens!! Man, when she kicks it in she can get down the field in a hurry! Katy made quite a few goals for her team, and by the end they had even learned how to pass to each other. After Jillian's first game, I asked her if she liked it. In her ever so dramatic way she answered "I don't like it....I LOVE it!" I loved how she came over to the sideline in the middle of the game to give me a kiss, and her thumbs down if the other team scored. She was always interacting with me during the game which is a fun change from the more intense games of the older kids. It reminded me of the end of One Fine Day, when the kid was playing soccer and he was just excited to kick the ball! That was Jillian, just happy to be there and have fun. The highlight for her was having Melody, Jonny, Lili, Jeff, Matt, Cortnie and Jack come to her last game. Thanks guys--what awesome aunt and uncles! So, good exercise and fun times had by all. Football is still in session, but what a relief to only have 1 game a week this month instead of 3. Katy's and Jordan's games were on the same night so things were pretty hectic during Sept. What do people do? Only let one kid be in a sport at a time? I don't think that would fly around here, but I certainly don't want to be one of those parents running around with thier head cut off! I finally got prepared last week and carefully planned out our meals so we didn't have to eat tacos at 9:00 for dinner. Maybe when they talked about overscheduling our kids in conference last time it was for the parents benefit. How can we do the important stuff when the trivial things are taking over? Hopefully things will calm down now, but surely something else is right around the corner--never a dull moment round these parts!!!!!

Please continue to ignore the black spot on every picture. Apparently I have dust on my sensor and will be paying 35.00 to have it cleaned!