soccer goes out with a bang

The past two weeks went by in a blur. The highlights:

There were soccer and/or baseball games almost every day, along with meetings and scouts and hubby working late. I don't think we made it home before 9:00 PM once.

We had a baseball game in a nearby one-team small town further up the mountain we live on. They still had several feet of snow piled along the road in some places, got very cold. But it is a nice, scenic backwoods drive from my house.

My daughter proved how much she really watches the games. My son caught the ball, and she wondered why he didn't get a point for it.

My oldest son got a lesson in fundraising. He worked his heart out selling $1000 worth of honey for his scout troop, we received the product this weekend and he was horrified at the small sizes of the products. He was sure that everyone would hate him for selling them what he thought was more for the money. I told him most people realize that's how fundraisers work, IOW, rip-off. So now we have lots of honey bears to distribute.

Friday I took my daughter and a load of girls three hours away to our final soccer games. Half the team stayed in a motel, and it was kind of fun (and a little nerve-wracking) to have a weekend without the little kids. We played a sort of beach ball game in the pool and sat in the hot tub (not used to sharing one--I usually have my four boys and people immediately vacate). The next day, we were missing one of our strikers due to a twisted ankle, and in the second half our other striker bashed heads with an opponent and got a concussion. So our last game we had no strikers and no substitutes. Ouch. But at least she's doing okay.