Waiting on the Serve (279/365)

TIME: 5:24 PM
PLACE: Gymnasium
SUBJECT: Stella

Soccer yesterday, volleyball today.
It’s a learning league – and a quick one, it only runs about 4 weeks.
Stella’s team was assigned yellow shirts and decided to call themselves the “Minions”

Goal Kick (260/366)

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

Bruce Lee (American Actor and martial arts expert. Born in San Francisco, California, USA 1940-1973)

TIME:  12:40 PM
PLACE:  Soccer fields
SUBJECT:  MonkeyBoy

It was soccer Sunday.  StellaDella at noon and MB at 12:15.  (Hooray for being the same fields!)  Here’s MB taking a goal kick.  I love the look of concentration on his face.  Only one goal got by him today – over his head and out of reach – but that was all the other team needed.  We lost 1-0.

Net (030/366)

“To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.”

John Webster (c. 1580-1638), British writer. The Devil's Law Case (l. 15-16). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.

TIME:  7:29 PM
PLACE:  Indoor soccer arena
SUBJECT:  Netting over field

MonkeyBoy has been attending a soccer camp on Monday evenings for the past few weeks.  Normally HH takes him and picks him up, but he had a meeting tonight, so I drove out there to collect him this evening.

Soccer Goalie (232/365)

"Behind every good man is an empty net"

Unknown

TIME:  12:48 PM
PLACE:  Soccer fields
SUBJECT:  Monkeyboy

Today was the first soccer games for MB and StellaDella.  Well, for MB anyway.  SD’s game was rained out this morning.  But, it cleared up enough to get MB’s game in.  This was his first time ever playing an official soccer game.  They put him in as goalie.  He did good though…they ended up in a tie.  Now, if this is his permanent position on the team, I am going to have some really bad grey hair by the time it’s all over.  Oy vey!  The pressure of being the mom of a soccer goalie.
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And I want to clarify something…I am NOT a “soccer mom”…#1-I don’t have that kind of personality and #2-I can’t figure out the rules of the darn game to save my life.

Hoop (301/365)

“To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.”

Terry McGuire..Dick McGuire's (American professional basketball player and coach, 1926–2010) wife, explaining the strategy of basketball.

TIME:  4:42 PM
PLACE:  Back yard
SUBJECT:  Basketball hoop

Grade school basketball season is in full swing now.  MonkeyBoy had a game this evening at 5:00pm – Our team lost by about 18 points but…MB actually made some baskets this game and he did not foul out – hooray!  That’s progress.