Coach Cannon

I started coaching last week. The first day was try-outs. There are three 7th grade teams and three coaches. The A team coach was kind of in charge and she had no plan and we looked kind of like idiots in my opinion (not hard for me since I know nothing, so I definitely need a plan). We got through it though. The next day the B team coaches further divided up the girls into two teams. The idea was to get them as evenly split as possible so we have two B teams and not a B and C team. It was harder than we thought and we had to continue to make a few changes. Hopefully it's all good now. The rest of the practices went pretty good. I like my team. I only have one girl who is a bit of a slacker. I am definitely in over my head for sure. I can look up a drill and have them do it but when it comes to the nuances of the game that comes with years of experience which I don't have. I'm hoping my cram sessions and plans for each practice will get me through okay. I do think it is fun (when I'm not too stressed about my lack of knowledge) and it's a sweet gig. We only have practice for an hour 4 days a week and 6 games. It will fly by. The pay is about three times as much as subbing so it's awesome. I just need to get through as best as I can and not look too stupid in the process. That's the goal! 

Last Sunday I could feel myself getting sick so I rested all day. I was able to keep it at bay and on Thursday I thought I was 100% over it. I woke up with my throat on fire on Friday. I made it through my work day (that ended up being way easier than I planned) and we had our Friday night movie night with the kids. We watched the first Jurassic Park. So far no complaints of nightmares. Yeah! Ha. Scott invited a bunch of his guy friends over to watch a movie and I was able to fall asleep with a loud movie playing which was a miracle. My health was going downhill fast. I woke up feeling terrible on Saturday. I could barely talk. I stayed in bed and on the couch ALL day. I have too much to do during the week to be sick. I can't teach my VIPKID classes with no voice. I was feeling pretty bad by Saturday night and was thinking about going to an urgent care to see if I have strep. I ended up going to bed at 8:00. I slept surprisingly well. I woke up feeling a bit better but I have continued to do nothing all day. I watched a bunch of old school movies, The Cutting Edge, Cool Runnings, and A Cinderella Story. Ha. I am not better by any means but I don't think I will have to cancel my classes for the morning. A bunch of the kids have coughs as well  but they don't seem to be as sick as I am. Gabby had her bouts with fever and Ryan did too but the doctor on Monday said she wasn't sick and it was allergies. He's wrong! She got us all sick. Whatever. 

Anyway so that's the happenings around here. Busy sick times! Hopefully soon to just be busy times. 

Sometimes Ryan will put his hand under the door when he's supposed to go to sleep. It's so cute.

Ryan plays with these legos everyday. 

Last week Scott took Corbin to the Black Panther

Corbin wanted to play battleship with me (he never ever wants to do anything with me). I told him we had to do it in bed since I was sick. It was pretty cute. I could barely talk to call out the ship locations. 

I've been doing some serious reading!

Piper was playing doctor with Ryan. She was giving him CPR (she learned it from Jurassic Park).