Cade’s first football game is tonight. Let me tell you, Jr High Football is where it
is at. It is 1 million times better than
the youth sports football. The timing of
practice is so much better….right after school!
That means he’s done by 5:45-6:00.
That also means that we aren’t rushing home to get him to practice that
starts at 6 and won’t end until 8….which also means I don’t have all the
stresses with dinner….when should we eat, what should we eat, Camryn can’t wait
until 8:30, etc. I can’t tell you how
much easier the evenings have been.
Another huge plus is not having to witness everything. I’m just going to say it – some of those
parents were so stupid that to sit and watch/listen to them at practice would
almost give me a stroke. I would leave
and my BP would have to have been sky high.
That’s usually what made me want to write letters to all of the people
who irritated me during this time of the year.
Since I’m at work during practice I don’t have to witness any of what
goes down. Also, since it is a school
activity at least the majority of the guys helping have been checked out AND
have brains in their head. They aren’t
some local yokel telling everyone they had a scholarship to play college
football at LSU. Yeah right……
Another plus is the games are on Monday night. I GET MY SATURDAYS IN THE FALL BACK!!!!! I love my fall Saturdays, I love craft shows
and going to Fayetteville when the Hogs have a home game. I love being at home with the windows open
and my fall Scentsy scents going. I LOVE
it!!! I am so excited to enjoy my fall
weekends again. The last few years we
were always in the limbo on Saturdays.
Especially when the games would start at 2! Talk about a day killer!!!
I also just feel more relaxed and happier than I have the
last several falls. When I was in High
School I did everything.
Everything. By the time I
graduated I was so burnt out on having to be everywhere at a certain time. Even twenty years later someone controlling
my time almost gives me an anxiety attack.
So when we’d have to listen to some of the parents, and the game times
would change and I couldn’t go to Fayetteville and shop when Jay went to a
game, and I had to miss the craft shows it made me a little pissy. Actually it made me quite pissy. So another plus of Jr High Football is that I’m
more relaxed and can laugh off some of this ridiculousness……
Miller had a state winning football team 20 years ago. The year Jay and I were seniors. Obviously we weren’t in school at Miller and
since I grew up in a town with no football I had no idea any of this went down
in the fall of ’94. These Jr High boys
(and the 6th grade class) are being hailed as the next ’94 team. Hopefully the town is right and they can win
a state championship in the next 6 years.
But I have to laugh the tiniest bit...and I think a lot of this goes
back to the fact I don’t get in knots about football. But they’ve used numbers from the roster of
the state winning team to make new jerseys for these jr high boys. They’ve pumped these boys up with stories of
so-and-so wore this jersey so you’d better do xyz or he will take it from you...and
my personal favorite “inspirational” quote from the men in charge….a lot of men
from that team would give their right testicle to be back playing ball. Remember when those Successory pictures were so
big? What an awesome quote that would’ve
been in a frame.
Cade came home telling me all of this Friday and I had to
laugh. And I wondered if given the
choice would a man really give up a testicle?
Too bad I can’t put it to the test….And since I believe in being fully
honest with your kids (well I mean I do lie to them at times which could be
another post) but I mean in life skills we are honest. Like we tell Cade that he is the product of
Jay and I – he’s probably not going to be winning the Heisman but he could be a
National FFA Officer….that sort of honesty is what I’m talking about. I told Cade that I hope he has fun in HS BUT
I hope it is not the peak of his life. I
want him to go to college and raise a family and quite honestly my 30’s have
been pretty darn good. There were some
rough times but there have been some really great times. There would be no way I’d ever give this up
(or my testicle if I had one) to go back to high school. I mean….curly permed hair and mom jeans and
glasses . Yikes!!! No thank you!!!! But then I guess men probably don’t have as
many fashion skeletons hiding in their closets so maybe going back to ’94 wouldn’t
be as traumatic for them???
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