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March 18th, 2007 at 05:22 am

I made sure before I signed my daughter up for softball for the spring that they would be practicing at her school, which is a mile from our house. Well, now they are saying we have to drive all the way to another school for practice as there were only 5 kids from Rose's school in her age bracket that signed up.

It's 30 miles to the other school from our house and its a long and winding road so it takes about an hour to drive there. With two practices a week that's 120 miles on the road for 2 round trips and 4 hours driving time. I don't want to do that and don't want to pay for the gas to do that.

I had a long talk with Rose and as I see it there are only two options, either she doesn't play or we see if her school has a 4th grade team. Because she does not turn 11 until August we had the option of placing her on the 5th and 6th grade team or the 3rd and 4th grade team. Well, of course she wanted to be with her classmates not her agemates. I don't even know if there is one, and I am trying to track down who I would even ask.

But...neither one of wants to put up with that much time in the car. And on top of that, Tobias is playing t-ball at their school on the same nights that she would be practicing at the other school, at the same time. No chance of running back and forth, no way to do it. DH isn't home enough and my mother has to deal with dad, who is having cataract surgery on Monday. She can't leave him to help me and nor should she. Dad has to be her first priority.

I feel bad for Rose. I know how badly she wanted to play. And Tobias really didn't care about t-ball, he wanted to play soccer. The only reason I didn't sign him up for soccer is because Rose wanted to play softball. Now I wish I'd just signed them both up for soccer, but its too late for that. I think. Maybe I should check. It might be possible as Tobias' team is always little, to get him on. And Rose might be able to get on a team as spring soccer is always less crowded than fall soccer.

I don't know that I could get the money back from baseball. Well, maybe for Rose but I doubt it for T. But I'll have to see.

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2 Responses to “Baseball or Not Baseball”

  1. JanH Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 02:58 pm 1174229892
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    I once signed DD up for t-ball and they promised me they'd put her on a team with girls because she hadn't played before. They didn't. I signed DS up for soccer and they promised me they'd put him on a team with his fellow classmates since he hadn't played before either. They didn't. Frustrated the heck out of me because they wanted to learn, but hated being in a large group of strange kids and strange parents. If they had had at least one or two people they knew to learn from, it would have been much nicer. We eventually let them quit. I realize that it might be hard to accommodate them, but I had asked about all that before I signed them up.

  2. homebody Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 03:16 pm 1174231019
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    I'm really sorry. Sports are a really good outlet for girls, in my humble opinion. All three of my girls played sports, but my YD was the jock of the family and not very social, (older two were social butterflies). Sports was her saving grace as she excelled on the field and was looked up to in that arena.

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