Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-

Our boys LOVE to play football every year.  They look forward to the following year the day after the season ends of the current year. 

This year is the first year that Dane is old enough to play after tagging along to games for a couple years.  He was ECSTATIC!  (that’s him in the brown with his best buddy) – LAST year…

 
We have our boys play football because:
- It teaches them Sportsmanship, Honoring Authority, Teamwork, & Skills
-It keeps them Active & Physically Fit
-They Enjoy it!
-They get to Interact with other kids outside of our church and their little private school
-It Builds Self Esteem
-I Enjoy that Time with the other moms and families

But this year they are not playing…  This was such a HARD decision for us… and honestly I couldn’t even blog about it until now because I was still just sad about the whole thing.  They got all their equipment, they went to ONE practice and that was it.  WHY?

When we signed-up we specifically asked what day the games were on (you see last year they did some Sat. and some Sunday)  Their answer was mostly Sat. a couple Sunday.  Great!  (we much prefer Sat. but could handle a couple on Sunday)  Well… turns out they changed ALL the games to Sunday’s.  Sunday at our house is church day and family day.  We have Bible Study and Youth Group at our house in the evenings on Sunday’s.  They also had our boys (we had 3 playing this year) playing at the SAME time on DIFFERENT fields in DIFFERENT towns – on SUNDAYS.  So logistically it just wasn’t going to work out.  AND… we strongly believe that Sunday should not be filled with extra-curricular sports. 

It was a very HARD decision, and it was SAD… but we as a family decided to DROP-OUT of football…  We mourned and moped.. but…

Now that it is said and done – I think we are all glad we made the decision.  We now have our afternoons from 5:15 – 7:45 free (normal practice time) AND we aren’t rushing around on Sunday.  (Or Sat. for that matter)  Practice started mid-July so it was almost like we were able to reclaim the remainder of our summer.

We did take the boys to watch their friends play last Sunday.  Our kids had fun serving as water boys, eating concession stand food, and just hanging out.  In the long run, the decision was RIGHT for our family. 

How about you?  Does your town have kids sports on Sunday?

C-