Have I mentioned that I love soccer? Seriously, I’m really hoping that Hayley enjoys this season enough to want to do it again next year, because I refuse to force her to do a sport that she isn’t interested in, but I enjoy it enough that I’d be bummed about it. I love everything about it. I love the chaos of 4-6-year-old girls running all over the place after a ball, I love laughing as they run towards the wrong goal and they scream and cheer while we all yell for them to go the other way! I love sitting with other moms, getting to know them. I love helping out at practices. I really want to be back there next year.

Right now her games are on Monday evenings, and we’ve had one practice. I really enjoyed helping out. We had them do drills like running to the middle of the field and then dribbling the ball back to the side, pairing them up to practice kicking it back and forth, and then trying to teach them control by having them run up and down the field and stopping the ball when the coach blew the whistle. At one point, I told the coach it was like a hilarious circus and he laughed and agreed, saying that his goal is to try to have everyone able to control the ball to a certain extent and to be able to pass to each other by the end of the season.

Even though Sunday is Father’s Day, we’ll be at the soccer field bright and early because they’re doing photos. I think it’s a photo of each girl plus a team photo. That will be nice and will have to be framed and hung on the wall. The coach also said we’d do a practice since we’ll all be there anyway. We have to be there by 10:30 am but I’ve found that I don’t mind getting somewhere early (ish) if it’s for something fun, and soccer is fun indeed.

I never thought I’d enjoy it this much. It’s a shame I wasn’t able to dribble and kick as well as I do now back in high school!

Hayley on the left; shortly after this she actually made an assist on a goal and came very close to scoring a goal herself. Woo!