Soccer Family

We are officially a soccer family with Audrey starting soccer this April. She has never played before, but she loves to run, so we thought this would be a good fit for her. She is on a team with 4 other girls who have played before and are pretty good, but she is improving every time she plays. She had a block while she was acting as goalie, and it was fun to watch. We tell her to kick the ball hard, and she will say, "I don't want to hurt anyone." Still need to work on kicking. The other girls are really supportive and patient with her. It will be an interesting season. James signed on as their coach, and another mom is also a coach.

It also throws quite a wrench into our Wednesdays. We already have the paper route that we get ready for every Wednesday right after school. Audrey is in charge of rolling the papers, and I help her. Grant is the one who delivers the papers with James after James is done with work. Once we are done rolling, Audrey does her homework, and has some playtime. Scouts is at 4:00 which is wonderful and Sister Jolley is super with him. He goes there and then Audrey has dance at 4:30. On my way to get Grant at 5, I grab some dinner and pick him up at Sister Jolley's. We go home and eat, and then James picks Audrey up at dance and brings her to a meeting spot by our house. I bring Grant and we switch kids. Audrey needs to eat and change into soccer clothes, and has to be at the soccer field at 6:30. Adam and I watch Audrey play and James and Grant join us when they are done with the route. It is a pretty crazy day. And this past week went even more crazy, when we discovered that Audrey had soccer pictures and had to be at the field at 5:30. We made it at 6:00 after we called and told them, that not only are we crazy busy, be we completely forgot! All was well though, and she got her pictures taken. It was also extremely cold, and Adam was getting over strep throat. We left a little early that night. Hopefully, we will get the hang of these Wacky Wednesdays? I don't know though. We are all pretty exhausted by the end of Wednesday.