Champs

What a long day. Not to be a downer...but I'm sure glad it's over.

Today Katie had a soccer seating tournament. She played four- 20 minute games. This tournament is held to decide which level her team will play during the season.
Katie's team...The Socca Sistas (yes, you heard it right) ranked highest in the league.
Katie is a goalie, and a good one!
But,
I wasn't there to see her defend the goal; denying every attempt the other team made. She loves soccer. She hates swim team. Therefore, it wasn't a difficult choice for her to make.

Swim team championships?? or Soccer Seating tournament??
Two events...same day.

No-brainer.

Megan, however, loves both. She is a strong swimmer and a terrific soccer player. There were several reasons why I knew I'd be taking her to swim champs...

First- I'm on the swim team board.
Second- Swim team (especially the champ meets) are way more parent involved.
Last- Megan is my disappearing child. Meaning...I've lost her many times and I'm paranoid to let her go anywhere without Michael or Me.

That said...I can tell you that it was a long hot day.
72 events, 102 degrees, roughly a thousand people crowded around a small 8 lane pool...well you get the idea.

We arrived at 7:15am (late) and got home at 5:30pm (I left early). Megan swam in 4 events...
100 m IM (individual medley) her favorite
25 m freestyle
25 m backstroke
25 m breaststroke

I thought she did great! Even though the ribbons said 14th & 19th place. I'm not sure what place she got on the IM or breast. We left to soon.
It doesn't really matter the place anyway, as long as you can improve your time.

Like I said...it was a long day and I thought about Michael a lot, sitting at home. He wouldn't have been able to manage the heat.
At least a hundred blue & white pop up tents struggled to shade the green grass hills that surrounded the pool. The highlight of my day was seeing Megan's beautiful face light up when she finished her IM. She thought she had it in the bag...I'm still trying to explain the concept of "heats" to her.
Another highlight was getting to dive in the water myself when it was break time. 10 minutes set aside for everyone who is NOT a swim team member. So that was mostly adults. We get to jump in and cool off. NICE!!

You want to know what Michael did while I was gone?
He cleaned the house.

The kitchen was spotless.
Not a pillow out of place in the living room.
And the bed was made while the floor was set free of laundry clutter.

What a great guy...I just wish he would be careful...to much work right now is not good for him.