Someone asked, after the last post showing Kendrie playing volleyball, where I alluded to her unhappiness at not playing soccer this spring, why wasn’t she?   Well, let me just say, soccer is her sport of choice.  Given her preference, she would play soccer all day long, all week long, all year long.  She has approximately [...]

Here’s a little post-goal celebratory skip.   I think we should all give a quick jump when things go our way.  Think how much more fun our days would be. Man, I love this kid.

I know I make comments about how short Kendrie is, and I suppose compared to her average-or-slightly-above-average siblings, she is a wee bit on the small side.  But what do you expect?  Blaine is only 5″5, which is short for a man, and his mother was only 4″11, which is downright tiny.  So inevitibly, the [...]

One season ends, and another begins. More specifically, in this case, soccer season. Running, dribbling, passing, (hopefully) scoring …. A older division, a larger playing field, more players on the field at the same time, and new rules, like offsides and um … other things we don’t understand yet. The bigger field means we need [...]

…  my daughter. Thank you very much. PS.  To be fair, this was in the first game of the day.  In the second game of the day, in the very first drive (play? attempt? run?) of the game, Kendrie fell on top of the other team’s goalie and squashed her flat into the ground.  Turn [...]

Than this: You want your child to try new things, and hopefully do spectacular. If not do spectacular, at least do well. If not do well, at least have fun. If not have fun, at least not have the child’s fear that “I will let all the balls get past me and we will lose [...]

An 7 year old who is so excited for tonight’s soccer game that she wears her uniform to school, “to save time for later, so we get to the game quicker. I have lots of practicing to do.”