Basketball Season Begins
Just posting a few notes for my family and friends about this week.
I was excited as I thought life would slow down this week since marching band is coming to a close (only one more parade and a banquet and possibly a playoffs football game). But, alas, little to my knowledge did I know that basketball tryouts had already started (and my son even missed a few because of band) and so there is practice every day after school. I cannot wait for that 16th birthday in a few weeks to come and for him to get his driver’s license. Sigh.
On a good note, I was very pleased to find out that the coach for basketball is the same one we had last year. We had two coaches move to different schools and, therefore, we thought we would be getting an unknown coach. I was very pleased with the coach we had last year as he really focuses on growing an entire boy, character and all, and not just winning games. He really cares about the players.
Unlike last year, it does appear that the try-outs were very short this year and it appears that my son did make the team! Each year it gets harder and harder to make the basketball team, so we were worried. He may end up being more of a bench warmer, but he is happy to be participating in a sport he loves and has been dreaming of playing for a while now. At least there are no bench warmers in practice and he can still get lots of fun playing time.
They did some kind of different exercise yesterday where they leaned, squatting, on a wall with arms extended, up on the toes, for 45 seconds. His calves were hurting last night and he was walking around funny.
The scout troop had a costume party on Monday night and I was surprised at how many boys dressed up. I just kind of thought that older kids grew out of that sort of thing. With food and socializing and “down time” for an evening, it was a nice night.
Well, I’m not feeling well as I’ve got a low grade fever. I’m always up between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., but my hubby had to wake me yesterday at 7:30 to make sure I was getting up for work. That was the first sign that something was wrong.
I wish everyone a blessed day and weekend.
I was excited as I thought life would slow down this week since marching band is coming to a close (only one more parade and a banquet and possibly a playoffs football game). But, alas, little to my knowledge did I know that basketball tryouts had already started (and my son even missed a few because of band) and so there is practice every day after school. I cannot wait for that 16th birthday in a few weeks to come and for him to get his driver’s license. Sigh.
On a good note, I was very pleased to find out that the coach for basketball is the same one we had last year. We had two coaches move to different schools and, therefore, we thought we would be getting an unknown coach. I was very pleased with the coach we had last year as he really focuses on growing an entire boy, character and all, and not just winning games. He really cares about the players.
Unlike last year, it does appear that the try-outs were very short this year and it appears that my son did make the team! Each year it gets harder and harder to make the basketball team, so we were worried. He may end up being more of a bench warmer, but he is happy to be participating in a sport he loves and has been dreaming of playing for a while now. At least there are no bench warmers in practice and he can still get lots of fun playing time.
They did some kind of different exercise yesterday where they leaned, squatting, on a wall with arms extended, up on the toes, for 45 seconds. His calves were hurting last night and he was walking around funny.
The scout troop had a costume party on Monday night and I was surprised at how many boys dressed up. I just kind of thought that older kids grew out of that sort of thing. With food and socializing and “down time” for an evening, it was a nice night.
Well, I’m not feeling well as I’ve got a low grade fever. I’m always up between 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., but my hubby had to wake me yesterday at 7:30 to make sure I was getting up for work. That was the first sign that something was wrong.
I wish everyone a blessed day and weekend.
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