Toddler Sports

This fall, our oldest child finally became of age to start playing sports.  My brother and I grew up playing soccer, and all of my brother's children do the same.  So, this October we signed our oldest daughter up for U4 (Under 4) soccer.  And being that my daughter's team had no coach, I volunteered myself so that she could play.   It was one of the most frustratingly hilarious experiences I've ever been through.

Our first game, at the first whistle, 2 of my 4 kids on the field just threw themselves on the ground and starting doing snow angles (with no snow anywhere around), one ran off to a different field, and the other ran off into the weeds, while my 5th kid ran to his parents and cried.

The final game things got a little better, none of my kids cried, and they all tried.  Except the last team had an older 4 year old, who ran loops around my kids.  Eventually getting tired of the shenanigans, my daughter grabbed that ball from him, ran it down the field, and threw into the goal, and had herself a little celebration.  Everybody got a kick out of it....Except my daughter, who we had to tell her goal didn't count....She didn't really accept that.

No, I Don't Fix Computers....

Working in "IT" has ups and downs.  And depending on where you work, and the age range of the people that you work with, it may be up or down.  Obviously, the older generation has a few struggles with technology that the younger generations don't.

However, that's not always the case.  I don't claim to know everything, in fact, I don't claim to know a whole lot.  But I do know enough to be dangerous.  And then there are those out there, who should not be allowed around a toaster, yet alone a computer.  I've used that analogy so often since I started working in IT, that I've finally decided to put on paper, so to speak.

Some cases are worse than others, but there seems to be always at least one person a week, who should be nowhere near any form of technology.  If only we were allowed to give out toasters to those individuals...But then, again...That would probably be quite the fire hazard...And I don't want to be responsible for burning my work place down by providing the inept with the means to do so...

Why Do They Hate Sleep So Much?

Have you ever tried to put children to sleep?  PLURAL - chil-DREN... On top of that, have you ever tried to put them down SOLO?  My wife and I have very different work schedules.  I leave for work very early in the morning; like an hour before the sun's alarm clock goes off.  And my wife, often times has to work later in the evenings.  So more times than not, one of us is trying to wrangle the zoo while they're waking up, and other is trying to get the zoo to go to sleep.

I don't know which is the bigger pipe dream...Getting the children go to sleep...Or getting them to go to sleep WHEN YOU WANT THEM TO.  And when you get a victory over one of them, one of the others have plotted against you, and they WILL wake up the others.  They shouldn't have called it "chaos theory"....They should have called it,  "You Have More Than One Child Theory".