Basketball practice started for Rose tonight and there are two other girls from our block who practice with her, so we are going to carpool. It seems a little silly to carpool to go 1.2 miles down the road and back, but seems even sillier for 3 moms to drive 3 cars 1.2 miles down the road and back. Since there will be 3 practices a week, it works out great. So I will save just a little bit on gas.

Unfortunately, Rose was assigned to the team with the girl that likes to bully her. Fortunately when I talked to the coach about it, he said that girl bully's everyone and he will clamp down on her if she starts and for Rose to come tell him if he doesn't see stuff when it goes on. I feel so much better about that.

I wish she had gotten assigned to the other team because she has 4 friends on it. She has one friend on this team but she wasn't there tonight because she's stuck on the other side of the flood waters and hasn't even made it to school this week because of that. Not sure where her other friend will be assigned as she did not make it to practice. Hopefully with Rose. If she has two good friends on the team that will help her really stand her ground against Miss Bullypants. Then one of the other girls who lives in our development is not really her friend, she's a grade up, but they used to play together when they were little and just drifted apart because of being in different grades. They are friendly, though, so maybe I just won't have to worry about it.