Sports are my life

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EditThe soccer momby Richelle Fair on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 9:26am
You know that's the one sport my family doesn't have! no I'm not the soccer mom, but isn't that a common title for us stay-at-home moms with kids in sports? At least it's the only term I've ever heard for the mom of sports kids. I'm just a sports mom, too many different sports in our family to be called just one thing. We have cheerleading, basketball, football, cross country, baseball & track. I love that my kids are active and involved in sports. I love watching them play and participate. I love the pictures on my wall and talking to the other parents at the sports. What I don't love is how it seems to have taken over my life. I don't love the choking feeling of being ruled by practices, games, and the money they all need. As much as I love it all I hate that sometimes I feel trapped by the same sports. We rarely have anytime anymore that all 6 of us are even in the house together let alone spending any time together. There is some sporting thing going on every day of the week. Usually 2 or 3 a day really. I find myself getting so frustrated with the constant in and out of the house. The money that is spent on it, to the point where that is all of our "extra" money.This year Travis is coaching football so I've lost him 3 nights a week too on top of his OT. One night my oldest came home and asked me what was for dinner tomorrow night. I told him I didn't know yet. He then proceeded to tell me that I should fix spaghetti b/c it would be good for him for the race on Saturday. I told him no I wasn't fixing spaghetti just for that. He got a little upset saying his coach told him he should eat that. At that point I lost it. It was at the end of a busy week because of all these sports and I had just had enough. I started yelling that sports has taken over my life enough as it is. It dictates my days, weeks, free time and money and that it was not about to start dictating what I made for dinner! The truth was I could have fixed spaghetti, we had everything we needed for it, I was just in a bull head moment. I didn't want dinner to become all about the sports too. We all ready eat dinner all at separate times so figuring out what's for dinner is tough enough. Later, of course, I felt bad. Here's a typical week of sports for us:



Monday-CC 4:30-5:30, FB 6-8

Tuesday-CC-4:30-5:30, FB 6-8

Wed-4:30-5:30, Cheer 7-8:30

Thurs-4:30-5:30, FB 6-8, Cheer 8-9:15

Fri-4:30-5:30

Sat-Cc 9 or 10 am, FB 1 or 3 or 4pm

Sun-baseball practice



When basketball season starts, is the worst time around here. Then we have the boys with BB practice 5 nights a week-at different times, plus my daughter's cheer goes up to 3-4 times a week. Cheerleading is also at a different time b/c everyone is waiting for the gym. We even have two basketball gyms, but one is for the girls and one for the boys. Add in 1-2 games for both highschool and middle school and basketball is the most spoken word out of my mouth for months!



I know this is the point where people have told me to have the kids cut back on their sports. Obviously that's the answer to my problems over it, but it also takes away the joy I get from it. I don't want to take it away from the kids. Cheerleading is the only sport my daughter plays, it's the most expensive and does last almost an entire year minus 2 or 3 weeks, but it's her only sport. Tyler runs cross country, track, and plays basketball. Which one should he give up? My son Daniel plays football, basketball, and baseball. Again which one does he give up? He's a natural at football and baseball. This is his last year for football b/c our school doesn't have it, this is little league. Once it's gone though he's going to replace it with cross country, which would free up an extra practice 2 or 3 nights a week and a game each saturday. It would if my husband and I weren't going to volunteer to help out the football team even after Daniel is done. We want the school to add football to their programs and the only way to do that is to make the little league a success and they need volunteers to do that. We want to see football at our school at least by the time Bryan can play. Basketball is not Daniel's strong sport, but he loves it so much. He smiles the whole time he's on the floor, how can I take that away? Plus I know how important my sports were to me when I was a kid and they only have a few more years left. These are the reasons why I suffer through it all. After Daniel graduates highschool (in 6 short years) things will be slower and I know I'm going to miss watching my kids doing all of this. Sometimes right now though that seems VERY far away lol



I don't want the kids to give up their sports, sometimes though I just need to yell about it! lol