Soccer Report, and Stuff
Aug. 8th, 2012 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedTonight, we won! Decisively! The final score was 4 - 1.
Of course, it didn't hurt that the other team only had 4 players show up, and the ref let us play 4 a side. (We just had 7 players, but that was enough that we could give the kids regular rests so they weren't knackered like the other team.) But everyone mostly had fun, and Ros continues to improve, so yay all 'round!
In non-soccer news, this morning I did my first Tae Kwan Do class in two weeks--couldn't go for a week because the Sweetie had the car up north, the class starts before the subways starts running, and I didn't feel like getting up at 5 a.m. so I could walk to class, then the studio was closed last week--and I've massively messed up my elbow. My left elbow. Did I mention I'm left handed? (Apparently I was a leetle too enthusiastic about throwing those jabs this morning.) I got a million acupuncture needles in it tonight, and I'm hoping resting it for a bit is going to do the trick. Darn this getting old thing.
I'm also finding myself rather more gutted than I would have thought over the news that Gary Barlow and his wife lost their baby over the weekend. I think in part because it's dredged up a lot of the crap I went through dealing with fertility and adoption and desperately wanting a child. But also just because it's a horrendously awful thing to happen to anyone. And I hate that it took a tragedy for a member of Take That to get mentioned in our local paper.
I'm also struggling with what, if anything, to tell Ros. She loves babies, and was interested in hearing about Mark's baby, but I don't know that she needs to know that a baby has died. It's not that I want to hide her from mortality. She's already dealt with deaths in the family. She was two when my dad died, and five when my aunt died last year. While she was sad when my dad died, and kept asking where grandpa was, she was very deeply affected by my aunt's death. But Take That is just a fun, happy place for her, and I don't want to take that away. Though if she remembers Gary was supposed to have a baby and asks about it, I'm not going to lie.
Of course, it didn't hurt that the other team only had 4 players show up, and the ref let us play 4 a side. (We just had 7 players, but that was enough that we could give the kids regular rests so they weren't knackered like the other team.) But everyone mostly had fun, and Ros continues to improve, so yay all 'round!
In non-soccer news, this morning I did my first Tae Kwan Do class in two weeks--couldn't go for a week because the Sweetie had the car up north, the class starts before the subways starts running, and I didn't feel like getting up at 5 a.m. so I could walk to class, then the studio was closed last week--and I've massively messed up my elbow. My left elbow. Did I mention I'm left handed? (Apparently I was a leetle too enthusiastic about throwing those jabs this morning.) I got a million acupuncture needles in it tonight, and I'm hoping resting it for a bit is going to do the trick. Darn this getting old thing.
I'm also finding myself rather more gutted than I would have thought over the news that Gary Barlow and his wife lost their baby over the weekend. I think in part because it's dredged up a lot of the crap I went through dealing with fertility and adoption and desperately wanting a child. But also just because it's a horrendously awful thing to happen to anyone. And I hate that it took a tragedy for a member of Take That to get mentioned in our local paper.
I'm also struggling with what, if anything, to tell Ros. She loves babies, and was interested in hearing about Mark's baby, but I don't know that she needs to know that a baby has died. It's not that I want to hide her from mortality. She's already dealt with deaths in the family. She was two when my dad died, and five when my aunt died last year. While she was sad when my dad died, and kept asking where grandpa was, she was very deeply affected by my aunt's death. But Take That is just a fun, happy place for her, and I don't want to take that away. Though if she remembers Gary was supposed to have a baby and asks about it, I'm not going to lie.
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Date: 2012-08-08 05:28 am (UTC)The news about Gary and Dawn really got to me as well... I get a lump in my throat every time I think about it, so sad. I don't even want to imagine what it must be like for Dawn :(
I hope if Ros asks about it, you'll find a way to explain it to her. And hopefully there'll be happy news about Rob's baby soon!
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Date: 2012-08-08 06:45 am (UTC)That kind of news is always a little heart breaking. My fertility treatment roller coaster is a long way behind me now, but I do get a tug whenever I hear of people going through this.
And you are a wise and thoughtful mommy, my freind, so I have no doubt you will handle anything Ros asks if the time comes.
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Date: 2012-08-08 09:35 am (UTC)Great news about the footie as it'll boost their confidence too.
I'm sorry to hear about your elbow and hope for fast improvement. ♥
As to what to tell Ros, follow your instincts. As you say, the important thing is not to lie. Even kids instinctively recognize the difference between "I don't need to tell you everything" and lying.
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Date: 2012-08-08 10:39 am (UTC)The news about the baby was 'headline' news on my iGoogle newsfeed - very sad indeed.
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Date: 2012-08-09 01:44 pm (UTC)The news about Gary and Dawn's baby is very sad - all those months of joy and anticipation gone in an instant. I'm perhaps particularly sensitive to that at the moment as my daughter is expecting her first baby next month.
I don't think there is anything harder in life than losing a child. I hope you find a way to talk to Ros about this if she asks. We are not good as a society at dealing with death in these days, and probably we all like to think that childbirth is "safe" as, of course, mostly, it is.
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