Our Kids Will Never Play Soccer

"Our kids will never play soccer" was something Mark and I said numerous times. We never played it growing up and I hate driving by the soccer fields by our house and seeing it full of people at 1pm on Saturday afternoon when it's 100 degrees outside or 9am on a Sunday morning when we should be in church. But there are a lot of things we said we'd never do as parents and here we are now letting our kids watch Frozen so we can get a few minutes to ourselves, quieting them with a 2nd sucker so we can finish the grocery shopping, giving in to the never-ending request to play on the iPad….and playing soccer!

Elliott played in a small 6 week league at our church and I’ll just start out by admitting that it was a long 6 weeks. Elliott was terrible at soccer. He cried when he didn’t score goals and the other kids did. He whined when he had to do drills. He’d run off the field at random times to get a drink of his Gatorade for the 15^th time in just 4 minutes. I’m not even going to lie on this one and say it was fun. Better luck next year!