Hey guys, sorry for the long time of no writing. I’ll be adding my past few ‘My View’ articles over the next few weeks. I hope you enjoy them.

Just a quick new post for everyone out there with kids…

Who out there is relieved that school has finally begun?  Who out there has no idea where their summer went?  It’s somewhat of a push and pull; on one hand I wish I had spent more time swimming and playing with my child and on the other, I’m so happy, for her, that school has started once again.  She was becoming soooo bored with Mom and now we are gabbing and laughing at dinner again because there is such a plethora of new information to discuss, having been exposed to all of her friends and their crazy antics all day.  Much more exciting than any project I could have come up with to occupy a Saturday afternoon, no matter how hard I would try.

Any advice on how to encourage my daughter to give band a fair shot would be helpful.  She was all gung-ho to take saxophone lessons during the summer and wants to continue them, but she doesn’t want to be “in band”.  I’m at a loss as to the thought process here.  Maybe some stage fright?  Hard to say.  Tonight is the open house and maybe I can ask around to see if there is some underlying bit of information that she is leaving out.

Let me know how it’s going for you……

Hey Folks,

Just thought we might organize our thoughts, the summer sporting events are just starting.

I talked with my brother Ryan and made him go out and throw a few balls to my daughter; he used to play a little baseball in high school. Just a little. I moved back here for several reasons but one of them was that my six brothers and father could stand in whenever my only child needed that fatherly advice. My negative attitude about sports is not conducive to the; “You can excel at anything honey if you put your mind to it. ” values that I’m supposedly trying to raise her with. Failing miserably as of late, with my woeful stories of life on the bench and quitting because I never got to play. (Does anyone remember that it got so bad during JV volleyball that I used to sneak magazines and m&ms out and put them under the last bench seat so I would have something to do during the games? Good times.)

So anyway, the two of them were out there for about an hour and both came in sweaty and reddened. Apparently my girl has a “cannon” of an arm and he advised her that she would proabably do best as a short stop or on 2nd base. (Did I say that right?) That is helpful… brothers are good. Thank you Ryan, you made her summer and she is so proud of herself now and really wants to do the things “Uncle Buddy” taught her.

I’m coming around…..sports have their (or is it “has it’s”?) place. I’ll admit to that much at this point.

Keep the stories coming. Let’s put in stats and all of that. I have no idea how to interpret them but someone else might know…I concede that it’s possible.

Brag about your intermurals or about your kid’s games, I give you permission to even talk about T-ball.

Let us know when there’s a big game coming up and maybe we can all show up and create a posse for your kid!!!

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