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William has started playing soccer.  This is him in his new uniform.  He has played three games so far.  Not sure if they keep score or not but only the last game seemed to be a real one.  Had a referee for that one.  I assume it was for real but we never know.  His team is made up of first year players.  Most of the other teams are kids that have played for a year.  Some of them know what they are doing, but most do not.  They spend a lot of time just standing around or just chasing after the ball.  A couple of the players on William's team are pretty good.  They have actually scored a few times.  William is not one of them, but he is having fun and I am sure he will get better.  Part of it might be my fault as he tends to just kick the ball a little ways in front of him all the time. I told him to do that during one of the practices instead of what he was doing, which was just kicking the ball as far as he can in any direction.  Now, he never kicks the ball very far, even when we tell him to.  But he will learn, I am sure.

I don't coach the team anymore, or pretend to coach them.  Only when no one else is around to do it.  One of the dads is doing most of the coaching these days.  I am not sure he knows what he is doing either, but he seems to want to do it, so I let him take over.  Not that there is a lot of coaching involved but he tries to get them to do things together.

Maeghan really wants to play.  She practices with the team all the time but if she were to play, she would have to play against girls and boys her own age and they are much bigger and faster than she is so it is probably not a good idea.  She really wants to though and it is sad to have to keep telling her she cannot.  She thinks she is as good as all the boys on William's team, and she probably is, but not against kids her own age.  Not that it would matter a lot if they would let her play, but she just would not be able to run with them or kick the ball with them or even stop the balls they would kick at her.  She is just too small.  She is smaller than anyone on William's team but since they do not know how to play, she can hold her own with them, for a while.  She gets tired and cannot play for long, but she tries and she would really like to play if she could.

Juanita and I celebrated 10 years a few days ago.  Didn't do what I wanted to do which was to go out of town on our own for a while, but we did spend the day in Sydney.  Did a lot of things we had never done before.  Visited the Japenese gardens, rode the monorails and the trains, saw the new shopping center.  We had a full day and did not get back until around midnight.  It was fun.

Karen and Beverly are over for the school holidays.  They got here a couple of days ago.  We plan on taking them to the Easter Show next week.  Haven't been in a few years so there might be some new things there.  Probably be a long and hot day.  The last time we went, we got in a crowd that was so big we could barely move across an intersection.  We won't have a pram with us this time, but we will have two people in wheel chairs, so hopefully, it will not be as crowded.

We plan on going to the drive in this weekend.  I am not sure about taking the new car to the drive in.  I think I have spoken about it before, but now, we will have more people going and more chance of someone 'mistakenly' taking something into the car and eating it to get out of the cold.  They are already not happy with me for telling them they will have to sit outside for the drive in, but that is the only way it will work.  Not sure how we are going to hear the radio from there, no speakers at the drive in, but maybe we can figure out something.

Going to cut it short again, so I have more to say next time.  Been a busy week and it is just going to get busier.  Guess I will try to write again tomorrow.

Until next time,

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