I made a terrible mistake on Saturday that made the whole family feel plain lousy. On Thursday, Joseph and Grant's soccer coach gave us a piece of paper announcing a time change for their game on Saturday. I thought she meant Saturday the 18th, and didn't even bother to look at the date on the paper. When we arrived at the field (over an hour after their original game time) nobody was there except a lone soccer coordinator cleaning up the field. He told us the time change wasn't until next week's game and that their game had just ended. Oops.
My heart sunk for Joseph and Grant. They LOVE soccer. They were so pumped up for this game in particular because it was the only time they were going to get to play against their friend at church and they wanted to win--BADLY. So we drove away from the field an extremely depressed lot. Grant started bawling (he's like me and can't hide his emotion), Joseph bit his lip to keep from crying (he hides his emotion like his dad), I had a lump in my throat because I felt miserable for making my boys miserable, Jennabee was screaming in the back seat because her shoe fell off, Austin was making fun of her by mimicking her cry, Hans was very solemn sitting between his two older brothers, and Ada cried herself to sleep listening to everyone else cry. It was pretty comical looking back on it, but at the time it was impossible to crack a smile.
I wanted to go home so we could all wallow in our grief, but Joe decided there was only one thing that could take the edge off the sadness...
MINI GOLF!
I'm so glad he thought of it. By the end of our golfing session we were all feeling a lot better. He topped it off by taking us to lunch at Wingers where we watched the Coug game. Even though the Cougs got creamed, going to a restaurant as a family is always a fun treat!
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I hate it when I do something like that. The kids get frustrated and then it helps us to get in a bad mood as well. I am glad that Joe took you to miniature golf and out to dinner. That would of been fun. I have to laugh though with Austin was it copying Jenabee and then Ada escaping it all to go to sleep once she joined in on the crying. Funny gotta love kids. Love you!
Wow! I can't believe how much Joseph looks like dad in that picture, or you for that matter! From the sound of talking to you on the phone yesterday and this blog you definitely have your hands full! You amaze me Ali!
That is so something I would do. I'm all scatter brained and I only have my appointments (and some of Russ's) to keep track of. Hopefully the kids won't keep a grudge for too long.
Great Story..it made me laugh imagining everybody crying at once. One of those traumatic moments with a very happy ending.
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