This week I considered dropping the "New Life" title. The kids are in school and sports and in many ways life feels normal. And yet, we are not quite there. All activities, including school, are constantly threatened to be shut down. I track cases in the schools daily. Mask and health screening are a part of everyday life. Additionally, multiple members of our YW presidency are currently quarantined with Covid (in fact another one just went down as I typed this). Maybe one day we will get there for reals.
Anyway the highlight of this week has definitely been our fall sports. We are deep into the fall baseball and soccer season and both Merrick and Carrigan are finding their groove. Merrick is looking so solid on the field. His pitching lessons are really helping him, you can see the difference on the field. He has a game this evening, but he got a happy bonus this morning. He went to watch his friends on the senior ball team and ended up getting recruited because they didn't have enough players. There is a bit of a learning curve to the senior ball field, but he held his own playing first base and got his first senior ball W.
Carrigan is also coming into her own on the soccer field. Before the season started she fretted about how this is they first year with goalies and how she definitely didn't want to play goalie. On just the third game she decided she wanted to give goalie a try. She has played goalie for half the game for every game since then. This week, she had some good stops and got to experience her first PK (which got by her). I am proud of how brave she has been, taking on something that was very scary for her.
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