Final Football Game...

Monday, October 27th was the last football game of the season. The Giants (that's us) versus another team from Indian Land (where Marshall lives)...both teams scored two touchdowns a piece, but we still ended up losing. That's right the other team scored on both of their conversion attempts - making the score 12-16 in their favor. Our coach gave a real inspirational talk after the game about how we are a young team, and that next year we will have older, bigger more seasoned kids on the team - I didn't realize how many youngsters we had. There were 10 nine year olds, 9 eight year olds, and the rest of the team were 10 year olds...most of the 8 and 9 year olds hadn't played before! So, the fact that we won any games is a miracle - we won two of our preseason games and we also won the Jamboree game (if you look at one of my earlier posts, it says that we lost) - coach explained that the other team at the Jamboree scored the last second winning touchdown with 12 guys on the field, but no one caught it until the play was over and done with...so, we would've won if they had called a penalty on it - no instant replay in pee-wee football?! Banquet is November 8th, and then it's right into wrestling - which thankfully only has practice once a week and one tournament on the weekend (easier to concentrate on homework). Marshall is enjoying himself in all that he does and is still healthy - no broken bones or severe bruises even...

Football update...

So, I know it's been awhile since my last post - but it has been really busy recently (both at work and home). Just got back from Marshall's next to last football game of the season - once again we lost :-( at least it was close: tied at nothing until OT and then each team was given 4 plays to score from their own 20 yard line - the other team scored a touchdown and we didn't! This has been a disappointing season, we did well during the preseason - but it has been a different story the rest of the season. There has been a few close ones like tonight and a few blowouts as well, this was their best played game - the line held their opponents better tonight, created holes at times - we even caught a pass! Next Monday will be the last football game and then it will be on to wrestling...which he did last year, and enjoyed so he is doing it again this season of course. November 8th is the banquet for the football team, where they get trophies and other awards...we are all hoping that one particular child doesn't get MVP, as he doesn't deserve it, but evidently the coaches are scared of the kids mom so it may happen as the coaches vote for the award. Hopefully, we can make it through the banquet without some of the other moms trying to take on this other one (she's a big woman, but not with much speed - so they could probably do it if needed)!

Work has been more of the same...we got out by 3pm today and hope to do the same the rest of the week, and not have to work on Friday. I have a project to do to help the rest of the store understand clearance and the importance of it - I hate speaking in front of groups of people, even people I know really well...so this is a personal challenge for me as well. We will be slowing down now that we are nearing the holidays, until about 2 weeks before Christmas, then we start getting busy again. I welcome this time of year as it allows me to really dig into what I'm supposed to be doing on a daily basis and just don't have time everyday to do it to the fullest extent like I should. Nothing else new here, I'll post again maybe after my weekend with Marshall if we do anything exciting? We'll see...