soccer woes

Know what’s frustrating?? 

Signing your boys up for two specific teams because they practice at a church IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, both of them, at different levels, different teams, SAME TIME!!!  Talk about crazy convenient.  Which is important because when you have six children, four of which play sports or do something outside of sitting in front of a computer screen or television, you tend to get pulled in very, very different directions, opposite ends of town kind of different directions.  Did I mention that a trusted neighbor was the coach of one of said teams?  Yeah.  It’s a perfect scenario.

One boy happens to be the younger brother, shuffled around from this activity to the next, none of them his.  A younger brother with special needs, no less, so his parents waited until he was SIX before they signed him up for any kind of sport anything.  A younger brother who was and is so excited that he gets to finally do something that’s his, and not shared.  A younger brother whose parents have seen great strides made in confidence and control since signing up, even though he’s FAR from the best child on the team.  This brother looks forward to games and practices with such incredible anticipation, eagerly putting on gear and fixing water bottles and nearly leaping down the street toward his practice.

It’s that brother’s team that decides, when the coach is sick and can’t make it to practice one night (he also has a boy on each of the aforementioned teams), that they should have practice anyway.  But, lets not have it at the same place cause it’s just not as convenient for them (one child playing sports, one child.) lets have it clear across town.  And you know what else would be a good idea??????  Lets decide to make this the permanent practice spot without talking to the coach or any other parent that may not have made it to that practice because it didn’t work for them to drive that far.

Great.

 

Thanks.

 

Tomorrow night, when we are struggling, having to get older brother to practice, where it usually is, get older sister across town to a scrimmage and somehow Scouts at some point, we’ll be trying to get someone we know (anyone) to stay with older brother so we can get younger brother ACROSS town to his practice.  OR he just misses it. 

 

Thanks.

thrilled that you made that decision for our family.