Talk to you in March

When our boys started playing sports, we quickly realized how taxing it was to have a child on a team. Although at first it was just t-ball or lollipop soccer with one practice a week and one game, we knew it could quickly overtake us

Enter the one-sport-a-year-per-child rule.

With very few exceptions, we have followed it and although we do not expect it to work for every family, it has worked for ours. Sometimes it demands tough choices. Baseball signups are in February. That means that the whole year of sports has to be thought out early in the year. And as we added more boys to the sports rosters, often we wanted them all to be in the same sport at the same time. More often than not, they all choose different sports at different times of the year. Through the years, they have played soccer, basketball, baseball, and football. They also are on the HVL swim team, but we don't count that. That is in the morning, they are all on the same team, and it's duration, start to finish, one month.

Enter this year's choice: basketball.

The two youngest chose basketball as they have never played before. Jonah didn't exactly choose basketball. Although he does like basketball, he isn't crazy about the Upwards league that they are playing for. It's only one practice a week and his age group is from 6-12 grade, which is a bit broad to say the least. We sort of 'encouraged' him to play...

Thirteen year olds who do not have an outside activity tend to get rather wrapped up in themselves, especially if they are just watching their brothers practice basketball...

And of course, everyone has practice on a different night of the week and about 20 minutes away at that. Three nights a week of practice, one full day of games. Hence the title, Talk to you in March...

This is why we do the one-sport thing - so that we can fully give ourselves to it, running around, cheering, practicing in the driveway. No complaining, no avoiding. Just encouragement and practice.

Headfirst, we dive into basketball.

Talk to you in March.

(Did I really say no complaining?)