HEY Moms and Dads!!!! It's Soccer Season again!!!! Wooo freakin hooo!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

Time to drag out those cleats and find that they are two sizes too small from last fall ("cram them on, we'll buy new ones...later") Time to personally fund bottled water producers nationwide!!! Time to cut up oranges, pick grapes and shove them in baggies for your turn as SNACK PARENT!!!! Time to freeze your *bleep* off as you watch a bunch of 6 year olds chase after the ball like energetic puppies!!!! YAAAAY !!!!! Time to not have a decent dinner (betw 5-7PM) on Tues, Wed.,and Fri nights!!!!!!!

Can you feel the excitement in the Grumpy household?

[davidinalameda]

1. what happened to wabbit season

did I miss it?

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. You must have! Because it's soccer season now!!! We're getting our

cars muddy!!! We're washing smelly, sweaty socks!! We're cheering! We're hungry!!! We're ready to volunteer to be the linesman!!!! :hi: :bounce:

[tjwmason]

3. Just starting?

It's a winter sport over here, and (I hope) will be ending soon.

The week-end marked the beginning of the cricket season (which is why it snowed) - now that's a real sport.

Football (alias soccer) is just American football for wimps, American football is just rugby for wimps.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Are you somehow calling my baby boy a wimp? Huh? Huh?

Whyn't you come here and say that to his face? ;)

Actually we play fall and spring season soccer. Same team with a winter break. AYSO. Yay.

[tjwmason]

7. Wouldn't dare

I'm too much of a wimp even to play football - certainly to challenge him; I can just about manage a game of croquet with a gin and tonic close at hand.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Alls about I can muster is sideline riding...and that is tough some days.

;)

[jandrok]

4. My daughter's team is 3-1 on their season already!

You folks are just cranking up?

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Yes! We were just able to crack the ice covering the field....So we're

stoked!!!! :bounce:


/sarcasm.

[jandrok]

12. I forgot that you're living with the Eskimoes in Michigan

79 degrees and sunny here in Central Texas today.

We've only got 2 games left in the Spring season.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. 52 degrees and BRISK here!!! I can't wait to sit out there!!

:hi:

[Lars39]

20. It was always at least 10 degrees colder at our soccer fields

than anywhere else in town. And aluminum bleachers....:scared:
Hope ya'll have a good season! :)

[kick-ass-bob]

8. freeze?

I sweat to death.

Also, try coaching them. Try having to yell, if only to drown out the "instructions" the parents are trying to give their kids - which runs exactly counter to what I am telling them.

That's probably what gave me the gray hair.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I'm not a coach...I'm one of them there instructors you talk about. MrG

is trying to reign me in. ;) We just can't help ourselves but try to acheive glory through our spawn...


....did I ever tell you how my daughter was in the National Spelling Bee? Speller 107! ;)

[kick-ass-bob]

14. I just love it 'cause the kid looks totally confused.

There's mom/dad on one side telling 'em to go forward and coach telling 'em to go back.
They do neither and the ball rolls right by them.

Just go "woohoo!" and "Go!Go!GO!"

It works better for everyone!

:D

on edit: please tell me you don't get angry at them after the game - I want to deck those parents. (I can't imagine you are)

[Telly Savalas]

22. Is emulating rowdy Italian fans considered good form for parents?

Y'know. The smokebombs, flares, loud chants, etc.

[oregonjen]

9. It's baseball/t-ball season here

Soccer is a fall sport in Oregon. My son is in t-ball right now. :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. It's fall and spring (same team) here. T-ball starts up. But he wants

to do soccer, like his daddy. :hi:

[madrchsod]

16. i coached youth soccer for 18 years

in the pouring rain,in the snow , freezing rain,90+ afternoons, and days where it was perfect weather. i really enjoyed it-well sometimes it was a pain in the ass but those days it was mostly a few parents. i kinda miss it but then again i don`t!

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Yes, it does run the gamut of weather conditions. Right now, it's

freezing out, but sunny. I guess I'll take it. :hi:

[Nye Bevan]

17. Baseball season also....

Is there any worse form of torture than watching your 9 year old on the mound giving up 6 runs?

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. That is the most awful thing to have to sit and watch. My daughter

pitches softball...and I would leave the games sick sometimes. :hi:

[Telly Savalas]

21. My daughter is already in training...

I'm worried she might lose interest in the sport if she ever finds out that they don't let you eat ice cream during the game.