Thursday, July 12, 2007

T- Ball MOM's

This is my first season with any type of sport with my son as most you can't join until you enter Kindergaden, so this is my first time dealing with other moms in this setting or any other for that matter. So the first practice his dad takes him and I come straight from work and watch him from the side line. Wondering to myself if this is really something he sould be doing in the first place as I am sad to my self that he is growing so fast. Anyhow I try and make small talk with the moms around me and I am not much for chatting with people that I don't know in the first place, but I try and pipe in when I see a chance ony to get a funny look or a snide giggle. Now I should tell you there are two groups of moms and somehow I ended up in the middle....What was I thinking? So I dreaded other practices knowing I would be sitting there with those same women who knew each other before and didn't need a new comer to their group. So by the third practice I decided that I would just sit on the other bleachers away from them. I was doing good and then came a mom I dadn't seen in the other groups and she was up for chatting. We sat there cheering for our children and chatting about life. We left the game and went our own ways till the next practice. Where we meet on the same bleachers as the Monday before and to our surprise there came all those other moms and guess what they were nice and chatty. I judged them before I even had more than a few minutes to know them. So we all sat cheering for our children and trying to keep them after the ball instead of playing in the dirt.
So today was picture day and as the vote this last Monday we were to wear gray pants and the shirt and hat provided to us. Yes I had purchased pants before he started but I got white thinking they would be easier to clean, I now had to buy new pants for pictures. So when we show up I notice there are way more kids then there had been in all the practices there with our color shirts on and ready to be part of "Our Team" photo. Hmmm now let me get this right you don't have to come to practice and so now your kids pants don't match the rest of the "Team". I sure hope the coach steps up and says that if they havn't been to practice they don't get to play in the first game as it is unfair to the children who have been chasing that ball since day one. Yes I know its T-ball but there still has to be a line some where. Oh and better yet we are assigned partners for snacks at the games and lucky me I got paired with some one who has been to one practice as its been to hot for her to come to the other ones. So I am sure that if she can't give up something to come to practice what makes the coach so sure that she will even be able to be part of making a snake for the kids on game day?

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