Michael and Tim made the football team
today; and are the only freshmen to be selected by Coach Robinson. Their extra training must have helped some of
the other guys too, because Lucas, Paul Sparks, and Luke Taylor all joined their
Grade Ten classmate, Garth Green on the team this season; and they all trained
at least some of the time with Michael and Tim.
Other happy campers today include Jeff
Morris, who was named team Captain and senior quarterback; Caleb Palmer; and
both of Sally’s brothers – Alex and Mark.
I won’t do the full team roster; but all of the guys making the team are
obviously fired up today; while there are others who are disappointed to find
out that they won’t be playing this season.
Coach Robinson is going with a slightly smaller team than he had in the
past few seasons; and quite a few of the guys will be playing both sides of the
ball. Michael and Tim will be two of
those guys; and they’ll be our starting wide receivers and cornerbacks. Lucas is going to start as a defensive
tackle; and will also be sharing running back duties with Caleb Palmer on
offense.
While that news was the highlight of the
day for our boyfriends; Rowen and I had a busy day too. The transition from tryouts to official
practices felt a little strange with just eight girls; while Dani also took our
collective effort up a few notches while adding in some team building work that
included coming up with new cheers to add to the old, school standards and more
recent favorites. We’ll be doing one
more shorter practice tomorrow morning, but while we still have some work to do
to improve as we get back to school next week; I think we’ll do just fine
tomorrow night.
Wow – it’s hard to believe that our first
game is down to just hours away as I’m writing this!
Having that game ahead of us is one good
reason for me being asleep by now, but we’re doing our last camping night of
the summer; and I’m not the only teen here to be a bit too fired up to
rest. Our cheerleading practice went
long, so Rowen and I again only had a few minutes to spend with Michael and Tim
at the end of their lunch break; and then we were off and running again. For me, that meant grabbing a quick snack and
then helping Mom for the rest of the afternoon around the house and in the kitchen. I did a bit more family business work too; so
I had that up-to-date going into the weekend and we pretty much have everything
ready for our weekend guests and the pre-cooked meal menu ready to go.
Michael was at the Inn for the dinner shift
again today, and he skipped our baseball practice because the guys weren’t
having their football scrimmage tonight.
Rebecca got the night off so that she could spend it with Lucas; and he
stayed after football practice to have dinner with her and do the camping night
with us. Our baseball practice was a
tough one as Coach Claire worked us hard to get ready for our championship
match on Saturday; and I’m sure that she does have us as ready as
possible. Now it’s just a matter of
which team plays the best on the weekend.
Michael and Tim met up with us at the park as we were wrapping up our
practice; and we went back to my house for a cool-down swim and snack break.
We’re just camping with the six of us
tonight because Mom just has too much on the go tomorrow to handle a big group,
and she even had the added bonus of Ethan and Ehlana ending up doing sleepovers
at Aiden’s and Naomi’s houses for the night.
That leaves Mom and Dad alone in the house tonight, if not technically
kid-free; but let’s not speculate on what they might or might not be doing with
that free time – especially going into a weekend where we’ll have a house full
of guests.
That thought does have me tempted to sneak
over to Michael’s tent and... oh, that won’t work because we’re three in a tent
tonight. We wouldn’t have gotten away
with putting up three tents, and four would’ve been a waste of extra effort for
just a few hours of nap time anyway; but maybe I should have suggested a
sleepover instead!
Moving on, we didn’t do a campfire tonight,
but we did sit on the dock and benches by the river and talk for a couple of
hours before splitting up for some couples alone time. I’m sure that you can guess that football was
a big part of that chat time – both for high school football and while the boys
kept track of the college football games.
Tim’s probably still doing that in their tent; but that wasn’t high on
the to-do list for Rebecca, Rowen, and me once we were in our tent for the
night. If tonight was any indication,
though; we’d better get used to being immersed in football regularly from now
until the end of football season – in February.
Before I move on from football, Tim is
particularly fired up about college ball this season because Kyle will be
playing; and his biggest problem this weekend is that his cousin will be
playing a game while he’s busy with baseball and holiday weekend work and play. With Friday night football ahead of us for
the next few months, Saturday night could be one of our few date night options
this fall; so it could be interesting to see whether Tim picks Kyle’s football
games over play time with Rowen. I don’t
have to wonder at all about what Michael will pick for us, but if Rowen does
have any problems with that; I’m sure that we can come up with some ways for
her to convince Tim to change his mind about his priorities. ;^)
Rebecca, Rowen, and I have been listening
to music and having a nice little wind-down girl chat while waiting to be ready
to sleep. Rebecca dropped off a little
while ago, but Rowen is still hanging in there and both excited and worried
about our first game as cheerleaders. I’m
not worried about how either of us will do tomorrow night. I am excited too, though; and I’m sure that’s
exactly the same for me as it is for the other girls regardless of whether I’m
looking at it from the perspective of a Magi Master. Being a cheerleader isn’t world-shaking or
even nearly as important as my family business work; but it is still special
for me to get to do that with my best friend and cheer for our boyfriends.
For the record, Rebecca still is not
remotely interested in cheerleading this year any more than she wanted to join
with Jenny last year. She does plan on
going to see more games to watch and support Lucas and Michael; but she’ll do
that on her own – though I plan on helping her to get to all of the away games
too if I can work that out for her. It
really would have been cool to have the four of us back together again like the
way it was when I first moved here; but that’ll never be quite the same again –
particularly now that there are boyfriends in the mix. I do think that it’ll be better with us for
the next few years while we’re in high school together; so I’m looking forward
to that – and this has been a really good summer for spending more time with
Rebecca.
I’m sort of dragging this out now, and
should really just wrap it up and get started on the nap time; so, until next
time...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of
the Light!
