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I've been wanting to post for awhile but sleep and netflix have been winning most of the battles for my free time. Tovi is asleep and Taran and Connor are playing outside so I finally have a reasonably good moment. What is new?
We just wrapped up the age 4-5 indoor soccer season. I agreed to be assistant coach number II for Taran's team and it was a great experience. The kids on the team had such good attitudes and I was glad that they really seemed to find playing soccer fun. The only thing I didn't like was that some of the teams we played were all big 5 year old boys and the coaches pushed them to be overly aggressive I thought. I played soccer in high school and college and it is a physical game but it shouldn't be at this age. Also I think kids will be playing mostly non-coed sports once they start school so it's a shame to start doing the all boy or all girl thing now. I should add that while some of the teams are formed randomly others are put together by a coach with players he/she knows. I guess it just welcome to the world of kids and sports. One of the dads of a teammate is coaching a T-ball team next month so we are signed up (hmmmm won't it be interesting if it's an all boys team after what I said). I bought Taran his first glove and it felt monumental. I wish Connor had been along too but he has the honor of teaching Taran to catch with it.
Related to all of this is we now are 89% sure Taran is a lefty. He still switches a moderate amount but is mostly writing with his left. My mom and oldest brother are left-handed and Connor has at least two sibling that are but I didn't think one of our kids would be. I feel like it would be more convenient if he was right-handed in some ways but I plan to get over that. It's awkward at times helping him with writing and sports but I'm getting better.
WORK! I have been working 3-10 hours a week and it's been on average great. I am very interested in the project I'm working on and find it challenging and fun. Not what I expected. 3-10 hours is not much time at all though so I stress about being productive. One funny thing is Taran told me the other day he likes going into my office. I thought it all a good attitude about me returning to work until he added, "because of the candy". My office mate keeps a big bowl of leftover halloween candy on her desk.
We just wrapped up the age 4-5 indoor soccer season. I agreed to be assistant coach number II for Taran's team and it was a great experience. The kids on the team had such good attitudes and I was glad that they really seemed to find playing soccer fun. The only thing I didn't like was that some of the teams we played were all big 5 year old boys and the coaches pushed them to be overly aggressive I thought. I played soccer in high school and college and it is a physical game but it shouldn't be at this age. Also I think kids will be playing mostly non-coed sports once they start school so it's a shame to start doing the all boy or all girl thing now. I should add that while some of the teams are formed randomly others are put together by a coach with players he/she knows. I guess it just welcome to the world of kids and sports. One of the dads of a teammate is coaching a T-ball team next month so we are signed up (hmmmm won't it be interesting if it's an all boys team after what I said). I bought Taran his first glove and it felt monumental. I wish Connor had been along too but he has the honor of teaching Taran to catch with it.
Related to all of this is we now are 89% sure Taran is a lefty. He still switches a moderate amount but is mostly writing with his left. My mom and oldest brother are left-handed and Connor has at least two sibling that are but I didn't think one of our kids would be. I feel like it would be more convenient if he was right-handed in some ways but I plan to get over that. It's awkward at times helping him with writing and sports but I'm getting better.
WORK! I have been working 3-10 hours a week and it's been on average great. I am very interested in the project I'm working on and find it challenging and fun. Not what I expected. 3-10 hours is not much time at all though so I stress about being productive. One funny thing is Taran told me the other day he likes going into my office. I thought it all a good attitude about me returning to work until he added, "because of the candy". My office mate keeps a big bowl of leftover halloween candy on her desk.
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