My husband is such a character sometimes, I can’t believe him. Yesterday, he got a news paper and on the front cover of the local paper was an announcement that our local high school was having a ribbon cutting ceremony on their new soccer field. We were not even aware that they were creating a new soccer field. Well my son who is currently in travel soccer is 12 ½ and is only about 2 years away from getting to play soccer for the high school team. Well, my husband sees this opportunity to go over there and meet the soccer people at the high school. He makes my son get himself all cleaned up showered and dressed, he is sporting one of those long hair styles that always has his hair looking messy and drives my husband crazy. Anyway, they head over to the school together, and my husband is right away scouting out the varsity soccer coach, whose name he was sure to get straight prior to going over there. Sure enough, he actually knew the assistant coach of the varsity boy’s soccer team, who turned out to be someone he had worked with in the past. He of course also made it a point to meet with the varsity coach and of course had my son speaking with both of them. It was actually a really good thing for my son, because he is the type of kid that gets pulled off task very easily, so sometimes he needs the little reminders about what he is working toward. They also told him that he would need good grades to make the team, which will help him to realize that he needs to stay focused on his academics as well as his soccer playing. Keeping his grades on track has been a really big battle this year, so I am hoping he will work at getting his grades up in the coming year, especially if he thinks he might not be able to play soccer if he doesn’t.
After all was said and done, my husband came home very pleased with himself as he felt like he had helped our son make the necessary connections at the high school. It turns out that a local news crew was up there at the school, so we decided to check out the late night news and see if our son had gotten his picture on camera. Well, needless to say, my son did not get his picture on the news, but my husband was on there twice. Once with the head varsity coach and once with the assistant varsity coach that he was friends with. Well, my son and I harassed him about harassing the coaches and we all got a good belly laugh out of the thing. I don’t think that sometimes my husband really realizes how dorky he really is, but I know that he is well meaning, and I love him for it. I know that he would do anything for his kids and thinks they are the best, and I think that is what makes him so special.
Posted on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:57 AM by Carol Ann