Not Just Another Mother Blogger!

I consider it my sacred duty as a mother to be ready for all sorts of emergency situations, be it a torn pair of pants or a scraped knee. ...

Our son has played soccer since he was three years old.   Zane's an only child; team sports offered him an opportunity to acquire the so...

Football is big in this state.  Boys start playing the game as young as 4 or 5 years of age, when their helmets are bigger than they are.  I...

My husband became a coach, and a commissioner, in order to support our son's fledgling soccer career. In his capacity as commissioner, L...

Since the spring soccer season is about to start, we headed into the local Soccer Factory to try on cleats. Zane is way more a ...

The San Antonio Scorpions FC, our hometown NASL soccer team, played a match against a major league soccer team, FC Dallas.  (I am pretty su...

Soccer is an extremely emotional sport, at least for its fans.  Especially for its fans.  We've all heard stories about the soccer hool...

I am not one of those mothers who overschedules her child's day.  I don't believe in that sort of thing, plus I don't want to be...

We were able to have our first soccer game of the season last weekend.  There was a big opening ceremony, with mayors and councilmen and rev...

Yes, we have been watching the Spurs in the playoffs. Yes, I saw that horrific game on Sunday.  I even skipped watching the season finale of...

Today’s going to be free writing. Feel free to write for five minutes about anything or nothing. Dump your brain. Go back to basics and le...

So, if the show is called "Finding" Bigfoot , doesn't that imply that they actually do find Bigfoot?  We've been watching...

As my regular readers know, yesterday was one of those "bleah" days where you wake up with a gray rain cloud above your head, and ...

The last two seasons of soccer, all the moms sat together during practices twice a week, chatting, while we watched our kids.  We all got ma...

My father claims that I was going to be named Bernadette.  The way he tells it, he had my mother convinced that Bernadette Marie was the ...

Being a father requires strength, selflessness and sacrifice.  It requires the strength to turn off that football game, even when it's t...

As part of our soccer family experience, my husband managed to secure a sponsorship with the San Antonio Scorpions, a professional soccer te...

My son was on the soccer field, eye on the ball, in a race to gain control of the game.  He was able to kick the ball ahead of his opponent,...

Most of the time we can talk him off the ledge of his convictions, but my boy can be very literal in his interpretations of what people say ...

It's that time of the year when a young boy's thoughts turn to Halloween candy...and soccer. We signed our son up for soccer, and i...