sportsmanship!

Do you have it? Do your kids have it? And are you sure??? What do they do when you are not looking!
Well what I witnessed today will surprise you, or will it??

There is this little girl that was on Sydney's team last fall. ( I probably blogged about her dad before, but I'm to lazy to look it up and link it) For certain reasons...I will call this little twerp, I mean girl, ANN and I will call her dad, BOB.( these names are not remotely close to their real names)

So just to update you... our team is made up of 5 yr old girls. We have an excellent coach, seriously!!!, we love this coach.( The last guy we had was dippin Skoal during the game in front of 4 yr olds, okay whatever he is another story....)
So, he is a great coach. and we had Ann and Bob last year. Bob is one of those dads that pushes their kids way way over the limit. This guy acted like he was training her for the Olympics! He told me once that he was going to get her a blind thinging to keep her from seeing the basketball!! He totally thought he sounded sooo cool, but I was like what EVER, freak!! He also talked horrible to his kid and she did to him and his wife in turn. Okay, so hopefully you get the picture?!
Well this year he didn't put is girl on our team. Obviously are girls are not competitive enough. DUH!!! They are FIVE!! They are just learning and having fun. Well well well. GUESS WHO we played the first game??? That's right we played the team that he switched his girl to!! Of course he was his usual self and she was too!! She likes to play dirty, grabbing girls shirts and such. BOB was pushing her to the extreme!!

After the game, we give the girls drinks and snacks. I witnessed ANN walk up to one of our players and say "WEEEE WON!!" In the most rude tone!! Well, I was not going to let her get by with it. And if some of you know me...... sometimes I really don't care if your parents are standing right there.

I said to her "ANN, you don't say things like that"
She says to me totally stunned that she was caught " I was just joking"
I say" I don't care, that is rude and you never ever say that to another teams player"
nuff said!! (Little twerp!) I can't stand kids that are like this!! I will have my eye on her!

But I guarantee if one of her parents would have said something to me, I would have told them they needed to take a few lessons in SPORTSMANSHIP!!!

Awwww Soccer Season has come!!

O yes. Now we get to freeze our aces off at the soccer field every Saturday!! Now that everyone is feeling better and hopefully immune to anything that comes near us.....we have to practice in the rain and play in the freezing temps. Of course, being a mom of four and not being organized. I couldn't find Syd's soccer shoes or shin gaurd. I searched in the basement for an hour the other day. (Christy if you read this, she knows what my basement looks like)
This morning I went down there and there they were, sticking out like a sore thumb!! What the???!!!&&###! Isn't that how it always is????

Thank goodness Rae didn't have a game today, just Syd. It is supposed to rain tomorrow so I am sure that both of their games get rained out, leading to a longer season!!

BTW::: Bon Jovi countdown: (i need to get on added to my side bar!!) 24 DAYS!!!! wooooooooooooooooofreakin"hoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

Saturday news.....

Well sorry it has been a week or more....but I am here to report the latest news...

1. Everyone is over the flu and pretty much healthy. Except for Nathan, he has conjunctivitis again. It's weird he only has "junk" coming out of his eyes, they are not swollen and only a little red. As a baby it took his eyes like 3 months to clear up. Usually when he gets it it is directly after a cold. He had the flu two weeks ago. I dunno.

2. Ashton had the stomach flu "something" AGAIN!!!!!!!! I say something because I am not so sure that is what it is. I have a feeling he might have some sort of IBS and may be that is coming from a food allergy!! Well see. I am having him checked. I have been convinced that it has always been a virus but it has been going on and off for about 4 months. So now I am convinced otherwise.

3. My Granny Brown died last week. My "Dad's" Mom. My PaPo died almost two years ago and she has been ready to go ever since then. She has had a will to die!! She only wanted to be with him. They had been a couple since she was 15 yrs old!! she was 86! We all went to her funeral on Wednesday. It was really beautiful! Long Catholic Mass funeral!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only took the girls. Lonnie stayed home with the boys and my sis's little one! She was a woman who was absolutely full of life and wanted everyone to be happy. She loved to celebrate life! We all said she wouldn't want all of us to be sad but to be happy that she was where she wanted to be and for all of use to celebrate being together as a family!! And we did!! It was great to see my cousins and their children and all of my aunts and uncles!

4. We left late on Wednesday to get home. The girls had already missed way tooo much school. this was a bad idea. Both Lonnie and I were tired. I told him could not drive. I was emotionally exhausted and was working on like 10 hrs of sleep in two days. However, I cannot sleep in the car when Lonnie drives. Something in me doesn't trust him!!
I'm sitting there holding my eyes open with my palms and all of a sudden the van veers to the left and I think to myself "he's going to come back over" NO!!!!! HE was FREAKING ASLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT THE WHEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, knowing Lonnie... He would freak out when I woke him. So I grabbed the wheel to steady it and then said " L O N N I E " He did freak out and almost jerked the van over, like on it's side. Just imagine a squirrel not knowing which way to go, frantically looking left right left right left right....................... We ended up being okay!! Thank you God, Thank you God for keeping me awake and getting us home safe!

5. There was a dusting of snow on the ground this morning!!
People I am sooooo sick of snow. So much for Al G0res theory (don't get me started)
I feel like we live in Wisconsin!! This is ridiculous!
It is spring break and it is going to rain all week!!

Grab bag

*We are finally on the mends. This flu has lingered on in many different ways. I am trying to keep everyone healthy and away from everyone else still getting sick around us.





* I am almost finished with my book " A New Earth" I decided to take the online class that Oprah and Mr. Tolle are offering. It starts tonight. 10 weeks long. I am interested to see how I view "life" differently.





* My kids are collecting all of the State Quarters. Some of the older ones I am having a hard time finding: Florida, Mississippi and Pennsylvania. If you have those would you send them my way, Thanks :). I do have one of the new ones Oklahoma!! I snagged that one up immediately!


Did all of you know that they will be making quarters for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Marian Islands??? Well that is what my collectors map says!!





* Have any of you ladies seen Colby Donaldson lately??? HE is freakin' HAWT!!! He is a total babe. I told my hubby he was my new crush. It used to be Matthew Mc. Apparently, Colby is totally SINGLE!! WHAT????? Reports say that he is a genuine nice guy and a very authentic person. So what gives????? They need to hook him up. If nasty ole Bret Micheals can have a reality show to find "love"(if that's what you wanna call it) then they should totally hook up Colby. He appears on the Rachel Ray show if you want to catch him!

* Bret Micheals-- I must admit I probably did have a crush on him...when I was like 14!! He totally grosses me out and I still watch his show. I didn't watch the first one, didn't even know about it. I saw him on the Chelsea Lately show (funny as heck). I have been watching Rock of Love 2, it cracks me up every week!! Lonnie even watches it with me. I have a hard time believing that he is really looking for "love". Mark my word: There will be a ROL 3 !! He has way too much "fun" and it's justified with a reality show!!