It's consuming

This year was the first year that our local homeschool group had its own sports division.  Usually if you were a homeschooler in this area you were welcomed to play sports at the couple of Christian schools in the area.  Thankfully, some brave souls took it upon themselves to start an athletic dept and the results were very good.  Austin is, as of tomorrow finished with basketball for the year, and what a stellar year it was for all of us.  I know why God gave me so many boys, I love, love my boys playing sports.  I loved it so much I didn't even really mind all the away games we had to travel to and all the extra gas it took to get there. Nate and I were like passing ships in the night, because only one of us could go to the away games since the little kids were in school.  Some days I left my house at 2pm and didn't return until after 11pm.  It was such a great group of kids (boys and girls teams)that I didn't mind the long hours and scattered family time.    Austin improved on his game tremendously this year from last, and was a starter for the JV team, and a regular fill in for varsity.  I am hoping that Evan will play next year.  He went from hating basketball to tagging along to practices and these last few games.  The only way that this worked for our family is that Nate is self employed and could often be the one to drive Austin and several others to the games.  I hope that we will be able to someday have a bus so that we don't HAVE to go to all away games, but either way it was tons of fun.  My father in law even got in on the coaching near the end and Nate is working right now to get back his vertical jump so that he can dunk the ball, per the request of the girls team asking "Mr. Brock can you still dunk it.? He replied that he will be ready in 2 weeks to show them his moves. (roll eyes now !)