Winning

Simon and Theodore at home.

Because I want to write in this blog every day I spend a lot of time in the day thinking of what I will write at night (I usually right before I sleep). I often have good ideas and then forget them when I sit down to write. Even as I write I can't decide if I should change my idea. Tonight I went to the first game of the softball tournament that Sarah is in this weekend. They won, the other team wasn't that good and it was a big ego boost to beat them. Tomorrow night they play again, and that game will be MUCH harder. Sarah's first at bat tonight she bunted the ball very well, and they overthrew her at first. She ended up with a home run off of a bunt! Then she got three more singles. It was a good night for her offensively and defensively. I find these days I stress too much about things Sarah is into. I exploded yesterday when I got an email response back from her Algebra teacher which pretty much sounded like Sarah is a good little girl and maybe the Math is too hard for her. I blew up, especially when I found out she complained to Sarah that I shouldn't have emailed the teacher and Sarah should have handled it herself. It is the first time I had ever contacted one of my three daughter's teachers and that is because I am worried about her grade going from a 95% to a 75% in 2 months. Oh well, we gotta keep going on.

Sarah at bat

 Tonight I got upset because the JV team was playing, which Sarah is a part of, and for the tournament the coach brought two players down from Varsity to "help out" the JV team. He didn't do that last year, when it was needed more, because he said he wanted to give the girls the experience of the tournament. He said it wasn't so important that the team won or not. What does bringing the two girls in just for the tournament do to the moral of the JV team? Is it worth winning if the team doesn't do it? Is it worth bringing in better pitchers if the catchers can't catch the balls of pitchers that they haven't worked with before? I think I got more upset than Sarah did, and I don't think i should. I should be the one to tell her it is important to follow the coaches decision on matters like this. Winning this tournament isn't as important as building the team and the team's confidence in themselves and their coach. Oh well, I guess I should have written about going skiing this weekend with my daughter or how I have a race on Saturday and haven't run all week or something else. Let's see what pops into my head tomorrow night. (hopefully we will win again, GO BRUINS!!)