What a great weekend Matt's mom and sister came to visit,it is always a good time when they come up from California. I got my hair chopped off and NFL started so football is now complete! The weather is starting to change, it is a little too early for me but I do love fall especially in the Pacific Northwest it turns into the most beautiful place to live. Fall also means the switch to hot coffee from Starbucks, scarves & toques and apple flavored everything!
PERSONAL: I would say growing up in my house we had no choice but to have sports be a huge part of our lives. While most kids were told bed time stories I would stand on my bed and sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game," with my Dad I learned a lot later in life that other people do not do this! (Yes I am carrying it on with Elliot every night!) I started soccer,baseball and dance at age 5 and there was always some sort of sport on the TV. I think that one of the hardest realities for both parents and for an individual child is when you realize maybe I am not good enough. Although this can be a harsh reality usually more for the parents than the child,it is one discussion I think is forgotten along the way all too often. Only 10% of high school athletes become college athletes of that 10% 1% become professional athletes. So my story of how sports ended for me begins now.
I have two older brothers one was a College baseball player and the other retired from sports in middle school so my standards were set somewhere in the middle of that! For me I tried a little bit of everything and of course I thought I was great because I would make a select soccer team or volleyball team but it took me until my Junior year of high school when I did not make varsity volleyball that I had to say to myself ,"Maybe I am not as good as my dad, my friends or I think I am!" I tried to justify well if I went to another school I could have made it, or that the coach just has favorites but it all came back to me. It was that miserable day in September 2003 I realize my sports days are done. I was ok with it,although it sucked I still remember that feeling of disappointment to my Dad and that embarrassment to everyone else in my family I was supposed to be GREAT I made the club volleyball team since I was 12, I went to all the camps, I practiced at home but it all didn't matter, I didn't have it. I did cheer my senior year and enjoyed dance team my junior year so it wasn't all over just my sports dreams had ended! I do think of dance and cheer as sports in some cases but for me it was more a try and look cute while yelling type of thing! I should also say that I did come out of retirement in college and played some intramural volleyball and it was awesome so the love I had for the sport never died just the thought that I could be playing on team USA did! So now as a mother I have so many hopes and aspirations for Elliot athletically but we will have this talk so both our realities can be let down a little bit easier. Who knows maybe she will be like her father and make to the elite 1%!
SPORTS: What a great week!
CFL- This week was the beginning of the LDC and half way through the season as more and more injuries happen and heal the league is getting shaken up! Matt played great I give him a B+ I would say just a couple not great decisions but besides that it wasn't bad, a few huge penalties,a flat defense and drops killed us. I also felt as if because Mike was still out our offense was more in a lets not lose mind set rather than a lets win attitude! Just let Matty Ice air out a few and move the offense fast that is where he strives! The run game is huge in this league with only 3 downs we have to get more yards on our first possessions. It will be interesting to see if we change that up this game, I think that with a few more long balls, yards on the ground and our defense back up to speed we can win this weekend. On the other side of the ball is Cornish and he is great very deserving of his title from last year and even though he was out most of this season I think he still might snag the MOP?! I am excited to watch what happens in the second game rematches this week especially Lulay hoping he still has it!
NFL- WOW, what a boring/exciting start to the NFL depending on if you are a defense or offense loving football watcher! The first half of the Sea vs GB game was awesome exactly what I was hoping for then for the exact reason they won the Super Bowl Seattle's defense took over! Watch out NFC Seattle had a taste of victory and they liked it! Can't wait for Sunday and Monday here we Goooooooo!
US OPEN- I love watching tennis it's such an intense yet proper sport the scoring is still silly to me but the attitude and cockiness of the players I absolutely love! I'm a big Federer fan and his rally back the yesterday to win was awesome to watch, I'm rooting for him in the semis!
MLB- Giants are looking good in the wild card race sitting 3 games ahead , we will see how September plays out!
ELLIOT: This little lady is feeling so much better and is looking forward to seeing her Daddy next week!
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