Unexplored Territory

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Oh balls

Dear County Soccer Association:

While I have not appreciated the lack of preparedness that your organization has displayed in years past, I am not so certain that I appreciate the sheer amount of preparation and aforethought that has been placed in the organization this year.

This year, why do I have to pay $ 100 for my two children to play an extracurricular sport? I appreciate the $ 25 registration fee. I really do. But the $ 25 uniform fee? Seriously ... my kids are eight and six, and neither of them play on a traveling team, which would require some sort of uniformity to the look.

But my son ... the one who JUST started "getting soccer" at the end of the fall session ... really doesn't NEED a uniform. What happened to allowing them wear their little soccer shirts ... the ones that could be HANDED down because we took great care in not placing their first names on the back of their shirts, going instead for the last name?

I am not too hip to this whole situation, but I will be darned if I am going to tell my kid he or she can't play because your stupid association listened to a scant few parents who decided that the kids looked "sloppy" in their hand me downs and plethora of shorts choices.

But game on next fall when I have THREE kids in your organization.

5 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Wow. That is a little bit of moola for town soccer.; 10:07 AM
Mamacita Tina said...: Please tell me you did send in the letter. Kids' organizations like that need to know that families need to save money in any way possible. Gad, I'm heading for soccer town this fall, hope I can afford it.; 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...: You want to talk expensive? In a word...hockey. Oy! Just to put Doodlebug in hockey would have been $600 and that isn't including the required padding, uniforms, skates and various other safety items. I hated telling him no.; 5:54 PM
Knitting Maniac said...: Sue ... we registered at the local hockey/skating rink and the Man pipes up in the back seat "I wanna play hockey!"

I was like "ummmm... no."; 6:13 PM
Bellezza said...: In my opinion? Sport suck. Better to invest in a library card. :); 8:37 PM

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I'm a mom of three peeps ... Queen Bee, The Door Man, and the Chandelier Monkey, and wife to Ace, the Helpful Hardware Man. I created this space to get away from the people known as my inlaws, and because life with three kids and a hubby is all Unexplored Territory.

The nine-year-old who seems to be growing older every minute, has an opinion and a comment for everything, and has a true servant's heart.

The seven-year-old who loves the organization of things, will someday be someone's therapist because of his kind soul, and will more than likely be living with us until he is 40 years old.

The five-year-old with the 13-year-old attitude, who has a dictator's personality, asks you to watch her all the time and say "hold on" to keep your attention, and will someday come home on the back of some dude's motorcycle with 10 tatts and a body piercing or two.

The man of the house, the fixer of things, the winner of prizes, and the only person in his family to escape the South.