Saturday, September 1, 2007

Scheduling Conflicts

Ten has signed up (courtesy of DH) to play both soccer, and fall ball (baseball). Both seasons run from September to November/December. Soccer practices on Tuesdays and Thursdays with games on Saturdays. Fallball practice on Thursday night (after soccer) and Saturday mornings, with games on Sunday.

Wait, hold on just a minute...did I just say Saturday soccer games and Saturday fallball practices. Yes as a matter of fact, I did. We informed the Baseball coach, that Ten will definitely miss 2 of the Saturday morning (9:30-11:00) practices, because he has games at 10:30 on two Saturdays, plus he will have to leave early from practices on two of the Saturdays, because he has 11:30 Soccer games on two Saturdays.

Normally, all practices are during the week, and playing soccer on Saturday and baseball on Sunday, seemed like it was doable. (even though it would totally take up our weekends) For some reason, the baseball coach wants to hold practice on Saturdays, and there is nothing we can do about it. If Ten was just playing fallball then Saturday practices would be fabulous because DH would be able to be at every one. Since Ten is also playing soccer, there is definitely a conflict in the schedule. Nothing we can do about that, except make the games the priority and the practices less of a priority. Fortunately, Ten is a really good baseball player, so missing the practices shouldn't be the end of the world.

I'm just hoping that next fall, Ten will be able to pick one sport to participate in.

7 comments:

Patti said...

I could not handle that! I'd rather my child just choose one sport.

P.S. thanks for the vocabulary lesson today - I made a boo boo

Lynn said...

You're welcome.

Marshamlow said...

One of the great things about being a great mom like you is that your son will be able to learn first hand that playing two sports is really hard. Might be a valuable learning experience about overextending himself or might teach him he loves to be go-go-going.

Joan said...

So tell me...when does Ten's mom have any time for herself??? Just asking...

Renee Nefe said...

that sounds really busy to me. Perhaps all this running around will help Ten decide which sport he prefers.

have fun!

re: mom in yellow zone. well she'll have to learn to share us with MIL who also lives in the yellow zone. but I think with my brother living here also we'll have a bit of a buffer. And I do miss her living all the way in FL (especially since she doesn't live close enough to all the theme parks.)

ms chica said...

I've been watching my brothers family do this for a few years, two boys, three years apart, avid baseball players, different leagues, plus recreation league football. It's takes a lot of planning to make that work. Hence I see his family on "special" holidays.

It Ten can keep that schedule and keep his grades up, he'll be management material.

Lynn said...

Marsha - I suspect that he is a go-go-go kind of kid who crashes when he can. We'll see how these next few months go.

Joan - Since the Fallball practices will be Thursday nights and Saturdays, and not during the week in the afternoon, it actually frees me up...sort of.

Renee - My gut feeling is that Ten will find that he prefers baseball to soccer, and will choose to play it in the spring and the fall. The good news is that he decided (this year) that he no longer wants to play basketball, so that will give us a winter free of sports.

Ms. Chica -Twelve used to play soccer and softball... juggling two kids with sports, religious school, piano lessons and homework was quite the challenge, especially when both kids had practices at the same time in different places. For me it became a matter of carpooling (which neither kid liked because they both wanted me at their practices). A few years ago, Twelve decided that she doesn't like to participate in sports or piano lessons or religious school, so now it's just juggling Ten's activities and trying to find something that interests Twelve. We'll see how the next few months go. School remains the number 1 priority.