Soccer Sunday

With both boys playing AYSO soccer, our Sunday afternoons in April and May are entirely devoted to soccer. Today, Brendan's game started at noon. Having the first game of the day used to mean going to mass, going to Sunday school, leaving Sunday school a little early and rushing like mad to get to the game a little late. Oh, yeah, and try to make sure that Brendan got something to eat somewhere along the way. As a single parent, I just can't do that anymore. I'm tired of running from one thing to another and always being in a hurry, so I've given up trying to do everything. I decided we would skip church and go straight to soccer. Sunday school is over for the year, which made the decision a little easier. Brendan had a great game. He scored his second goal of the season and this time I was actually there to see it - I missed the first one. I was so pleased for him.

Theo had the late afternoon game, which meant that I actually got to see all of Brendan's game and all of Theo's game. That doesn't happen too often. Usually, their games overlap at least a little and I miss all or part of someone's game. When the weather is bad, the overlapping games mean less time outside, which is great. Otherwise, it's just another single parent nightmare, trying to make sure that I get to see both boys play. I'm also usually begging rides for both of my boys either to the soccer field or home from the game. That's been made much easier by the fact that we've had neighbors and friends on both boys' teams, but it's still a drag and a hassle. Today I didn't have to worry about any of that. Brendan's game was over in plenty of time to get Theo to his game. Since I was there for the whole game, I was also there when Theo injured himself. He had a close run-in with the keeper and seemed okay, but a couple minutes later I noticed that he was limping. It turns out he somehow injured his toe. It hurt bad enough that Theo came out of the game early. We went home and iced his toe. We'll probably have to go get an xray tomorrow.