End of Soccer

Thanks to everyone who reached out after my last post. I appreciate the support.

But this post is all about:
WILL!

As you can see from the photo, he's been crazy busy with soccer. The first part of the season in August/September, his team was undefeated, with one tie and 11 wins. This time around, they did have at least one loss (and one truly shocking example of bad sportsmanship by the coach on the winning team), plus Will missed a couple of games. But he worked hard when he was there, and really improved on his skills.

This last game was the best yet! We weren't sure if it would be canceled because of rain, but we went anyway. After waiting (and thinking for a while that we were playing Coach Grumpy again!), we realized the other team wasn't coming. So Coach Lacerda ordered the parents onto the field!

Randy was nominated as team captain. Mr. Palmer filled in as goalie for the first half, and I could see where his son Zach gets his talent! I was a defender and Randy was a forward. Would you believe by the half we were winning?! It's true! At the second half, Randy played goalie for a while with Mr. Lacerda being our best forward and Jake's little brother being a great midfielder. The boys' team had all the boys on the field for the entire game, but we parents got LOTS of substitutions, with parents and siblings all rallying to the cause. And the parents won! We named our team the Old Goats and won by 2 goals. Nothing short of a miracle, if you ask me. I wound up playing about half the game, with Randy in a little more than me. But no blood was shed, and we all walked off the field, so I think that in itself was a triumph.

We celebrated with a trip to Arctic Circle, where Will showed us his new medal and enjoyed an Oreo Mint shake. I'm worn out, but Randy went to take the girls bowling!