Orange County Register

Please pray for me.

I have four, count ‘em, four soccer games to sit through Saturday. Each of my kids has two games due to end-of-season tournament play. That is a total of five hours of nonstop action.

They may have to put me in the soccer mom ward at the hospital with an overdose along with the other moms who have succumbed to sunstroke, injuries sustained chopping up oranges, heart attacks due to their kid’s play that day and all the moms who just need to get some sleep.

At least in baseball season, when your kid isn’t at bat you can kind of relax a little and zone out. But if you blink during a soccer game, you might miss your kid scoring their only goal of the year.

Curly Girl only scored one goal this year, but it was a very exciting moment indeed and, unlike last year, she’s on a team that actually wins occasionally. So that has been nice.

Cheetah Boy has been playing well, as usual, since he loves soccer.

I can’t say I’ll be sad to give up the haul-them-to-two-practices-a-week-each routine. I’m taking this parenting class called “Mindful Parenting” that’s supposed to teach you to actually listen to your kids (isn’t that ridiculous?) and have a closer relationship during the teen years.

One of the homework assignments was just to sit down to family dinners this week. I felt like saying, “Can you call my kids’ coaches and tell them that?” Generally, the kids eat in shifts, since they have practice, Boy Scouts and Campfire at different time essentially every day of the week.

I think that’s one reason I like to take them away on vacation. Then, we’re all stuck together all the time. Like it, or not. And no one has to watch soccer.

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