Parenting 101

You might as well teach your kids to play volleyball. They're going to be asked to play every time the extended family gets together. We use to play flag football until the over thirty crowd couldn't move for days after the final whistle. Volleyball is not much better. Lonny tore his achilles tendon once standing on the court. And that wasn't inconvenient at all. Try driving your husband around for 2 months.

So anyway get the kiddos out setting, spiking and serving and they won't be ducking and screaming when the ball is headed toward their face. I may or may not be referring to the girls born into the family.

So here we've got the anti can't we just all get along team break down of boys against the girls. I had only brought two sons who are not afraid of the approaching sphere, one daughter-in-law who was captain of her high school volleyball team and now coaches the sport and one daughter-in-law who was raised in a pack of boys. In fact she may have thought she was one of the boys since she played on her high school's boys soccer team. On this particular occasion she sat out.

We claim Alayna up front, the rest, my sis Michele's girls; Annie, Janelle, Melissa and Rachael are no volleyball slouches.


If anyone is interested in joining the family, we are specifically looking for volleyball players. Go team!