Soccer balls people, what do you think I’m talking about?! Last year I was lucky enough to be able to attend the inaugural BlogWest conference. I was totally looking forward to attending again this year, but circumstances have dictated otherwise. You see, I’m coaching my second season of soccer (indoor this time, U12 boys) and we’ve had a pretty successful season, despite what one particular parent seems to think. This...

I had such high hopes for January. I was totally getting on track working out again, until the lovely straddle injury happened. Now I can’t run or bike or well…anything much. I can sit on my couch, but even that hurts. No feeling sorry for myself here or anything, lol. Oh well, it will heal in four weeks or so according to my doctor. Longer if I don’t take it easy enough. So I will not be running 3x per week or 4. And I...

My soccer team had a tournament this past weekend. Don’t ask me how we did, it was a little challenging to say the very, very least. But I noticed something and when I couldn’t sleep I started doing some surfing on the topic. I wondered, are there a lot of mom coaches out there in youth sports? Because I’m certainly not seeing many. I mean don’t get me wrong, I have seen a few, I know of others. My boys have only had...

My new motto needs to be sleep more, stress less. Because really it is crazy to go to bed at a semi-early hour and then not sleep because your brain keeps whirling away wondering what drills you should run in your next practice, and if the game was lost just because the kids haven’t been playing long or if they lost because of YOU and your coaching skills (lack of coaching skills to be honest). I truly had no idea that coaching soccer...

Last week I managed to post four times for 5 for 5, but by Friday it all went crazy, lol. It’s been super busy lately in my virtual legal assistant biz, plus I had yet another rough cold last week. And last Sunday? I had my first soccer practice – as a COACH! No, I don’t know almost anything about soccer. No, I’m not really qualified to coach U12 soccer. But no one else was stepping up and my 10 year old was so...