At 5’3″ I’m not what you would call basketball material. In school in England we played a version of basketball called netball. Anyone ever played? You pass the ball to each other, shoot in to a low basket, but don’t…
Category: Musings on Family Sport Time
Putting the Positive Back in Sports
As a mom of three sporty kids, I am constantly driving from soccer to volleyball to swimming and back to volleyball with a pitstop at soccer. Well, you get the idea. My kids play lots of sports. To my husband…
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I was looking at the last 7 or so posts. I’m a little horrified to see that all of the posts are giveaways or product reviews. Nothing against giveaways and reviews…it is just that I have lost the blogging about…
Swim Team Teen Style
My teen has been on the swim team since a teeny tiny 2nd grader. She wore almost the same size swim suit as her 5-year-old sister. Then and now she is skin and bones. Hates cold water. The swimming pool…
If It’s Saturday It Must Be Volleyball!
Over Memorial Weekend we made our now annual trip to Penn State. For the previous two years, my husband drove our oldest to play at the 3-day tournament while I stayed home with the younger two. So technically this was…
Volleyball Tournament: We Survived
Have I mentioned that we live at volleyball tournaments? That I am constantly washing volleyball uniforms? That I am in a constant panic about whether or not I washed the right uniform shirt or not? That I trip over knee…
Final Swim Practice of Year until…
The younger two have been swimming since September…twice a week with only a missed practice here and there. I’ve used the time to workout most Tuesdays and Thursdays. Until April both swam in back-to-back sessions. I would workout the first…
Kindergarteners Want to Stay Home
So, I’m feeling a little more guilty these days. Well, more guilty than usual about the time my son spends in the car driving from one activity to the next. Last year as a preschooler he loved a ride in…
WE CAN! Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the launch of the WE CAN! joint initiative of NIH_and_Subway. To recap…NIH stands for National Institutes of Health Subway is that great sandwich shop with Jared Fogle as the spokesperson. If…
Sports Parenting Made Easy: T-Ball
So, your child is playing t-ball for the first time. Maybe this is your first time as the mom or dad of a sports player. Take it from me…you are in for a good experience. I’ve said it before and…
