Today my role of choice was soccer mom. If you've never applied for this role, you may just be missing the best way to vicariously live through your children! Back in the day, I played several sports and consider myself to be athletic, but as I look in the mirror I seem to have lost that coveted athletic body. Now, when I think jump, my body waits a few seconds before exerting a tremendous amount of effort to lift a few inches off the ground. I recall a certain track coach in high school telling me that I should get my best times racing in High School before my hips got too wide. I should have listened. Except it's not my hips that hinder my vertical exceleration. So I admit I feel a little too involved with my kids soccer careers' at this stage of my life. Of course I would never tell them this for fear of scaring them away from my first opportunity to shine as soccer mom. No, I valiantly sit in the car during practice, nursing my 3 month old, yelling at my 5 year old to stop pushing all the buttons as the windows roll up and down, and horrified that my 1 year old is hanging onto such window and about to become two 1 year olds. At this point any normal mother would have left the scene and vowed never to allow her kids to participate in any team sport that required mid-week practice. But this mother had to stay and see if her daughter scored or not. In the end I punished my kids with a well deserved ice cream cone from a local drive-through as I contemplated whether or not to teach the following days lesson on healthy habits. Aah, victory is sweet!
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