We are celebrating today. I was starting to dread the triplets' soccer games because it was me, chasing them, to force them to play soccer. That isn't fun for me or them so what was the point? Evan would wander away. Liam would sit on the blanket and not budge, and Dylan would go out for a bit and then mope around and come back to the blanket all the time. We started to talk about pulling out and waiting a year. But, since Justin is the coach and really, they've only just started and probably needed time to figure it all out, we stuck to it. And wouldn't you know it, last night at their game, they all played quite a bit and Liam and Evan both scored! Their first goals in a soccer game. YAY! No point mentioning that the other team didn't really ever try to take the ball from them :). They had fun and enjoyed people cheering for them and it turned out to be a really good time. I just really wanted it to be fun for them and to have them doing something and last night, that was what it was. A nice night!
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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