My life according to soccer
No one ever told me that my husband would be infatuated with soccer/football and spend all of his waking moments, when he's not working on a sermon, watching, eating, sleeping, breathing, dreaming, web-surfing, and thinking about Euorpean and North American soccer/football. I've learned that my life is a lot like soccer. I've recently learned new words and definitions in my life. Are you ready? Words like: FIFA, Striker (not a baseball guy who swings and misses), MLS (not the real estate people, either), pitch (again, not a baseball reference), Sentanta Sports, Adidas (ok, I knew this one, but didn't realize how much it would infiltrate my life), Geordies, Ameobi, and The World Cup - by the way, did you know that soccer teams play two different tournaments at the same time? Now that's multi-tasking! (kind of like having 3 kids playing baseball on the same night, at the same time, at 3 different fields!) They play regularly scheduled league play and then on top of it they squeeze in World Cup or other National tournament games. So they can be Red-Carded or Yellow-Carded in one league, and still get to play in another - kind of like "do-overs." Oh yeah, add Red/Yellow Card to that vocab list too.
ere's something about standing in a crowd of 15,000 people all singing the same songs and chants cheering on our beloved Red and White. The community at TP (no, not the stuff you throw in trees) is really awesome and the Fire organization is top notch to it's fans. Not only that, but they picked the most awesome person in the whole wide world to be the very first Soccer Mom of the Match this year! (wink, wink!) This whole "football" thing is kind of fun. Maybe I should start giving my kids Yellows and Reds instead of timeouts? Hmmmm...food for thought.



