Ok, now all the madness really begins. Weekend before last had me at the little league fields from 9-1 doing tryouts with the softball girls. It was soooo cold, but at least it was not raining. We then had our girls draft pick on Monday night, it was kind of a riot. (fun because it was only 4 coaches, the 2 softball coordinators, the league president and his wife the league secretary). Since it was a small group (unlike the boys) we were able to joke around and kind of let our hair down so to speak.

This past Saturday I was required to go to the fields for an umpire clinic, a scorekeeper clinic and a snackshack clinic, Oh Joy! Then I find out that softball coaches are required to find and schedule their own umpires for games. Soooo not happy about that. This is in addition to begging for co-coaches (thankfully I've got one, same guy who helped me last year), scorekeepers and newly added, a snackshack coordinator for our team. Oh yeah, did I mention that I should have a team mom also?

So, we finally got our practice schedules, tentative game schedules and medical releases of the players on Saturday. I called all my parents last night (13 of them). They all seemed really nice and excited to get the info. I had one parent tell me he was an ASA coach and when I asked why his daughter wasn't on his team, he hemmed and hawed and then told me she has behavior problems, especially in the dugout. Oh boy.

This year I have our next door neighbor girl Kelsey on our team, she's like a 2nd daughter. The past few years her mom has coached her team, but took a break this year. We also have Micki's best friend Brittany who lives just a few houses down, plus her friend who lives down the road and around the corner from us. She was on our team last year. Brittany has never played before, in fact her parents tell me she has never played a team sport, so it should be interesting, but fun. I really hope all the girls have a good time plus do well this year.

Well, shoot. Here it is March 6th and I haven't been good about updating my blog since January. Ughhhh. I really wanted to do better.

Let's see. February went by really fast. I was so sick the first part of February. The flu, and it was so hard to shake it off. I'm still suffering from a cough, but if that's the worst of my problems, I'll take it. Micki got extremely sick too, and Derek even fell sick for a couple of days. We blame it on Chad, he was the original sickie in the family. LOL

We went to Bend the second weekend. We didn't have a lot of time to spend there, we got there in the afternoon on Saturday and headed back home early evening Sunday. It was a nice quick trip to get away and Chad's parents were very gracious and nice to be around.

Chad and I spent some really nice time alone on Valentine's day. We went out to dinner to Vinny's and I believe we waited 2 hours to be seated because they do not accept reservations. Ha! It was packed and it is a small local family owned restaurant.

The next Saturday had me at the Little League fields. I've been selected to manage/coach softball again, so I had to be there for tryouts. We rate the girls on their abilities so we have a better idea of how to place everyone on teams. I really wasn't going to do this again this year, but Micki really wanted me to so I thought I would volunteer and if they needed me, fine, if they didn't, really fine. Well, they did.

We've had a lot of snow for Medford this year. Several weeks ago the snow started coming down hard and the schools closed early and we even closed early at work. They were then closed the next day and had a late start the day after that. That snow lasted 3 weeks in our backyard. Last week the kids had a snow day and then a couple of days later they were let out of school early due to it snowing. We feel it was totally unnecessary, but I guess there's paranoia here when it comes to a bit of snow. Now there's talk of extending the school year.