sports

I know it seems like I’ve said “this is the end” like forty-two times, but you’ve got to admit, this volleyball journey has taken us on a ride! From thinking she was done after high school season to thinking she was done after club season to deciding to play in…

I posted that Lucy’s basketball season was all wrapped up back HERE. But that actually wasn’t true because a sports season is never really wrapped up until the final banquet, right? So let’s just enjoy these sweet pictures my friend sent me from that big night. Sweetest friends. Sweetest coach.…

Sometimes when I’m reading (or listening to) a good book I slow way down at the end. I’m just not quite ready for it to end. I situate my time and myself just so so that I can fully take in all the culminating events as it wraps up. I…

High school sports are the best. In my opinion not only are they awesome for the kids (teamwork, work ethic, endorphin stimulation, leadership opportunities, strength development mentally and physically), but let’s be honest, they are pretty awesome for the parents too. I think I mentioned before that sometimes I get…

Lucy told me a month or so ago that her biggest regret from junior high was that she didn’t try out for the basketball team. I somehow hoped she had forgotten about that. Which makes me feel awful because what kind of mom wants her child to forget about a…

Claire got a volleyball season. After club was curtailed back in March, and the corona virus raged, we had no idea what this season would look like. But it turned out that these girls got to play, with a delayed start, with safety protocol in place (talked about the beginning…

I’m trying to write about some of the things we did when we got EVERYONE home during the quarantine, but I’m getting overwhelmed with too many pictures. So here’s a separate post about one night when we rode bikes through the slanted evening sun (back when it wasn’t cook-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk type…

I’m going back to pre-corona for a minute here, because gosh, there’s still a whole lot to document from “B.C.” And right up there on that list is pickleball. Ha! But really, Dave is so in love with this game. Such a good outlet for him. Such good friends to…

I have mentioned that Claire is playing volleyball pretty much non-stop around here, but I haven’t had a chance to post many pictures yet. And I may as well get to work on that since we’re already over half-way through the season! Claire has the best of both worlds in…

Let’s talk about Claire. And junior high. Because we’ve been spending a lot of time over there lately.   And because look at that smile. We just wrapped up the junior high soccer season. It was a wing-dinger, I’ll tell you that! (That’s Claire’s tumbling coach who coaches all these…