I'm just keeping an eye on the moon, waiting for the eclipse.
My daughter's soccer team lost their tournament game tonight, so high school soccer is now a thing of the past for me. As I watched tonight, I remembered many other games -- a soccer tournament when she was a very tiny five-year-old and I heard a mom on the opposing team ask whether we had a three-year-old on our team; a soccer game when it was snowing so hard that the girls, who were about ten, all looked like Frosty the Snowgirls as they finally won in overtime; the middle school field hockey game that ended for her with blood all over the field, a trip to the emergency room, and her definitive announcement that field hockey was not her game; and so many fall afternoons with shadows stretching from the blazing trees across the field and a ball sailing across the deep blue sky.
All over tonight.
3 comments:
Amazing how quickly time passes. Your descriptions of fall afternoons with shadows stretching and blazing trees was wonderful. You are a very talented writer.
One chapter must end for another to begin.
awww.... i'm sorry. you know what a big baby i am about my kids. i'd be crying if i were there on that soccer field. your baby is growing up. Pamela
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