Know your Place!!

The first day of the official Indoor Soccer season began with new uniforms, on a new field, under a massive, new air-formed dome. Which, incidentally, smelled like "new pool float."

We were so excited about Abby's first game on a premier team and she was mentally and physically ready, willing and able.

How did she do???????????????????????????????????

I think "unmitigated disaster" would be kinda fair. Painful to watch, painful to look at, painful to be there. Having only really played one defensive position for the past two years, the poor kid had no idea what the coach meant when he told her different positions.
When he told her to mark up to a certain player on the other team, she nodded her head but wouldn't cross the halfway line to mark up. She was suppossed to be on on side of the field in a new position, but didn't understand and went to another side by mistake. When she realized her mistake, I thought she was going to cry out there. Hundreds of people, three fields, kids who are AWESOME players kickin her butt and she was just trying to figure out her place in it all.
Poor kid. We'll work on knowing positions and getting her confidence back up so that she can go kick butt like she normally does.
Until then, remember what it was like to be the only kid out there who didn't know your place? I had that memory in vivid detail today.

Back to Funny

"Evie, what happened today that made us laugh really really hard?"

"My bup."

"Excuse me?"

"My bup. It always makes you laugh, Mommy."

"It does?"

"Yes. Cuz its so cute."

So, other than Evie's butt, which is that cute, here were other funny things that happened today:

1. I remembered, vividly, how slippery the rocks are at Hammonnassett Beach. That was about a millisecond before I remembered how cold the water is in November. That was a microsecond before I fell in and remembered how much I dislike wet, sandy, clingy clothes stuck to me.

At the same exact time, I recalled how much I loved the beach. Every sandy, wet, cold, slippery bit of it.

2. On the way home, my brother had a look of happy exhaustion that melted from his face, replaced horror and regret.
"Oh, God. I forgot to take the huge snails out of the bucket after I showed Evie."




I got some great pictures of my mom and Evie and Don having a beach picnic at sunset and a lot of "prippy prippy shells."

Bring On the Schwnn Mann

Im not funny again. If were hoping to funny, try fast forward 8 or 9 weeks and hope for the best. Or if you know one of my siblings, gett'em really drunk. Turst me, they are funny too.


Any whooooooooooooo I'm alone and pretty drunk on a saturday night. Oh, that's gonna hurt my health? I beg to differe at this momement.

Everyone else had some realy imporantthings to do latly andI'm just jealous that I didn't have seomting either. There's a lot of things that I radther' be doing.

Its not going to make me over. Im' planning on becoming a complete recluse starting this comeing week, right ater school conferences. After that, Im all about the Shwan Man for grocery delivery, Maybe I can play it off as mysterious. David made plans for mid December. I tol him he was insane and to cancell at least my part of the plans..... find another date or take our oldest dauthter.

Com'n, its not like anyone really noticed, so save the comments for your own sepctactural lives. No big. You're not a worse person, so don't feel anyguilt. You're just the normal person.