Tiring Weekend

Well, DS#1 did NOT play, which was a good thing. My dear wife had a rough call night Friday and spent much of Saturday napping when she had a chance.

DS#2's team did not do as well at the tournament as they would have liked but they had some very good games. Unfortunately, they did lose two games and placed 3rd in the tournament. The first game Saturday was fairly poor but the rest were very well-played. Today's game ended in a loss to a team from our own club that has been our major competition for a long time now. The boys on that team are actually younger than ours, BUT they have played together as a team for longer and have some pretty fantastic players. It didn't help that our main "striker" didn't play today (rumor has it he hurt his groin--OUCH, try-outs start tomorrow!). When we played them a few weeks ago we won, but we have been trading games throughout the friendly rivalry (one night a week both teams practice together!).

Anyway, I wanted to post this series of three pictures where DS#2 and another defender at midfield stop a potential drive dead and that stop actually leads to a goal for us (game 2 Saturday). In the first picture DS#2 kicks the ball on the move, the second shows the ball going past the driving striker and the third shows how it split through several players on the team (a third player isn't in the picture). That pass back forward was passed again to the other side of the goal resulting in a shot into the back of the net.

Of course, trying to complement that #25 defender tends to end in frustration. He really hates to get complements sometimes, sigh.

Tomorrow my lovely wife is on "late-call," DD has gymnastics right after school, and DS#2 has try-outs from 6-8:00 with registration at 5:30. This pretty much means that DS#2 will have to make a sandwich to take and eat during gymnastics and that DS#1 gets to babysit DD and DS#3 for a little while tomorrow evening (he'll miss swim practice for the neighborhood swim team but didn't seem that disappointed.

Well, this was going to be a "quick" post but ended up much longer than I expected. I'll talk more about our actual "Mother's Day" events later.