It Starts Again........

Nope. My son has never been in any sports and my daughter is too young to be in sports yet. I don't much care for mad dashes, so it is probably just as well.

Nope. as my kids played very little sports on account of us moving so much but youngest son did get a troupgy for basket ball one year!

Only twenty-four minutes of game time? Why is that, my friend? I don't have a story about a mad dash for sports, but I do have a story about a friend whose turn it was to wash the football team's kit one week, ready for their next game. The team used to play in royal blue shirts, white shorts, and royal blue and white socks. So, my friend duly took the washing home, put it in her machine and set the machine... bearing in mind, all these items of kit had a certain amount of nylon in them. She came back the next week with the washed kit, with red face and an embarrassed expression, explaining that she had set the washing machine to cotton. That week, the team turned out in royal blue tops, baby blue shorts and royal an baby blue socks. ha ha ha ha ha. The colour had run!!! Brightest Blessings.

No. The only sporting mad dashing I do is for the phone when YOU are calling............ROFL

I dont have the sports dash yet but I do have the morning mad dash everyday trying to get 5 of them out the door and on the bus without any injuries, fights or missing items its a perpetual adventure you know that LOL

Our son studies martial arts with his father, and will continue to do so as he growsup. I doubt very much that he'll play any sort of little league as his father didn't play little league. So no, no mad dash for uniforms-as they are in the house lol.

Both my girls play indoor soccer in the winter and rep outdoor soccer in the summer. We do a lot of running around in the summer since we have to drive to other towns and sometimes both of them have to be in two different places at the same time. One day last year they were both playing at two different parks in our town. I had to rush back and forth from one end of town to the other. Yes, they were both at exact opposite ends of town. We don't usually have problems with uniforms. The kids have soccer bags and keep everything in there. After I do the laundry they put their stuff with their bags. The only problem I had last summer when they were playing rep was the socks. They both had the same socks. They had two uniforms so one with blue socks and one with white. My older daughter inked her shirt number inside her white socks and pointed out to me that her blue socks had a thin white line of thread at the toe of each sock. They are both Adult Mediums now so figuring out whose shorts are whose is difficult. My younger daughter is going to be playing ball hockey for the first time this spring. She's 12 and really looking forward to it. A lot of her male friends will be playing (none of her girl friends). They get a t-shirt and she'll supply her own stick. She is supposed to have a helmet with caged mask but they are going to loan her one. It's only for 10 weeks. I don't want to have to spend a fortune on equipment. But my girl loves her sports so she always knows where her stuff is, including her skateboard. My older daughter does Taekwondo. There is no way she would misplace THAT uniform. She has a separate sports bag for her TK gear so she keeps it all together.

We do the "hurry, hurry, rush, rush". We have done it for Girl Scouts, Band/Concert events, football games, softball games and volleyball. The nice thing is that time in our life is ending. The kids are not involved in as many activities any more.

OMG I have no idea how you manage with the 5 of them (it is still 5 kids isn't it - you haven't managed to thin the numbers down yet?) I find it hard enough with 2! Mine don't play soccer but we used to go watch our local team a lot - no mad dash involved obviously.In our house it is judo nights that are a scramble, we can always find the judo suit okay but little madam will always know exactly what t-shirt she wants to wear and needs to find the micropore (to over the earrings that can't come out for another 3 months) hair bands to get her hair tied tight and water bottle - by the time all that is done she realises her belt has gone missing and she has lost her money for that night. Emergency diverted everything is found only for the water botle to have disappeared! Aaaaarghh I tell you once she has ran out of the house with it allI breath a huge sigh of relief only to spot her inhaler lying on the shelf by the door ........

I'm so glad my two girls are all grown up and I don't have to do this anymore. I don't remember doing it for sports, but I guess for other adventures. But I seem to have wiped all that stuff from my memory right about now. Prolly just tired from working so hard lately. *BIG SIGH* But I feel for ya, Bella, I really do. With 5 of them, I don't know how you do it. Wait, maybe I do, with all my sheepies.