This just about sums things us nowadays…and family sports league!

Cay likes to hunt.  Jeb is playing soccer.  

 I can pretty much eat what I want right now due to all the soccer running I am doing  to keep up with Jebbers.  We decided that we would not do b-ball this winter, but instead of parents being on the road and sitting on the sidelines we’d commit to a soccer game each Saturday morning.  Also, I am working Jeb out with the tennis regimen these days.  He loves for me to pitch them pretty quickly like in a real tennis drill and he runs back and forth from forehand to backhand to hit them.  I am amazed at out little time I have invested (and no money) for him to be improving. 

I am seriously considering starting a “family sports league.”  In this league, families would meet somewhere about once or twice a month to play sports…no fees, no rec coaches to like/dislike, no long-term commitment, and the best part is that the coaches/players are all parents and siblings who need exercise, want to improve their skills, and want to play and have fun with each other! 

 I still think that my parents had a point when they did sign us up for anything (except for some tennis lessons with our cousin here and there and mostly in the summer) really until middle school.  Instead of paying someone else to teach us, THEY played with us themselves.   I have such great memories of my dad hitting me pop flies and some of my family playing tennis together over the years.  Still, mostly my Dad was the only coach I ever had and I only went to camp  twice in my life.  Nevertheless, I excelled in my chosen sports and still have a passion for playing today!  I still believe the best place for a kid to learn skills, teamwork, that life is not fair, and that losing happens is in the family!

random pretty yellow fall tree in our yard.

...and I still love tennis…especially, when I  can put a whooping on my little brother.