I AM now a soccer mom!

Half time team talk with coach Eric.

Yes! Morwenna has got over her fears and has joined her friends in the Mesa 2nd grade girls' soccer team. I was even on orange-quarters-at-half-time duty today so I'm totally legit.  I was heard to shout "go girls" and "great job" as Morwenna the sweeper booted the ball upfield out of the path of the Amazonian 3rd graders who were today's opponents. Don't enquire after the score, just know that Morwenna is loving it, and, I must say, so am I.

Meanwhile Dan is trying his hand at flag football: toned down American football minus the pushing and shoving and shoulder pads - again very happily, as his best friends are involved.  To me it is a strange game, lots of standing around, the sparsest spurts of running with the ball (compared to rugby), and lots of 'plays' to learn, with coded numbers.  But the ball is the right shape for Dan, at least.

Morwenna with orange hair tie.