Today was the start of spring soccer for Gina and my first try at coaching. Her team is called the Ladybugs. For under6 teams, they play five each side with small goals and no goalie. The players tend to swarm the ball; it doesn't look very organized.
Gina was up this morning at 9am, dressed in her uniform #7 and ready to go. Only, her game didn't start until 12:30pm. Every half hour she was asking when it was time to go.
There are 6 girls on the team, but two couldn't make it today so initially we played with our four and a girl from the other team to make it five. The game was a blur of red and white uniforms going after the ball.
For my first day as coach I felt like a fish out of water. I had a plan for the first part of the hour before the game and for the most part it went well, but we also had some time when the girls were milling about while I figured out what to do next. Every so often I would check over at the other teams to get ideas on what they were doing. I think next week I will have a better plan and hopefully we will have all six girls.
When Gina and I arrived home, Vic was in the middle of making play dough with Andrew. They made it a very bright orange. It was a sticky mass that slowly came together and the kids had fun with the dough for quite awhile.
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