College basketball has March Madness. u11 soccer has May Madness. And Panda Power! Goofy Girls: Isabel, Remi, Nisi, and Aspen U-11 Silver Division Champions: TNFC’s May Madness Tournament, May 5-6, Franklin, TN Aubry (not a Panda but a new pal) and Aspen: Soccer and Volleyball Teammates She shoots, she scores! (Ok, so …
As I mentioned, the last weekend in April found Tim, Aspen, and and Lou in Atlanta for the final volleyball tournament of the season. While Aspen’s team didn’t do as well in regionals as they had hoped, the season, Aspen’s first, was still a resounding success. She learned so much, …
Someday, I suspect that these nicknames will have left me, but for now, they each belong to one of my girls. Can you guess whose they are? Oakaloo Malouda Spinosa
Last weekend we had to divide and conquer. Aspen had a volleyball tournament in Atlanta. Oakley had a soccer tournament in Memphis. And I had Marc Cohn’s “Walking in Memphis” in my head. No blue suede shoes….but Oakley did put on her purple cleats No plane to the land of …
Once upon a time Lou’s kindergarten class was studying fairy tales. As the culmination of the unit, Friday was Favorite Fairy Tale Character Day. Can you guess what Lou was?
I decided to experiment with an iPhone app called “Timelapse” to see how it would do capturing a soccer game. So, I stuck the thing on the cross bar and compressed 45 minutes of soccer into 5.
After 2 weeks of cancelled games (hello spring soccer!), Lou’s team was finally back in action yesterday. It’s good to be back. And it’s good to be Bologna.
At a soccer meeting about a year ago, some sage coach told us, the parents, the following. ”If a soccer team is losing 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong. If a soccer team is winning 90% of their games, someone is doing something wrong.” You see, kids …
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis My daughters have a great love of books. In fact, they were convinced that the “JK” on their Valentine conversation hearts referred to JK Rowling. (They also thought …