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<\/p>\nHi everyone – it is me Darla. We had a little hiccup with our beloved blog and were not able to post anything until today. But no worries – we will do our best to catch up up on the days we missed! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I will admit I am not a fan of sports and am blessed to have a husband who will watch his games in another room while my girls and I watch our favorite “chick flicks” all day long! However, when Amy was in 3rd grade and they had signups for track \u2013 I was very insistent that she try and learn the sport. In 5th grade, the school offered volleyball, basketball and track and again we encouraged Amy to participate in each of the activities. I learned to love little things about each sport and I became the \u201csometimes very loud but proud fan\u201d of many of the activities my girls participated in! Every year it was like clockwork in our home \u2013 in fall, we had volleyball, in winter, we participated in basketball and then in spring, track was in full force! Everything worked out so well as the girls\u2019 game schedules did not conflict with one another and we could all go as a family to see whoever was playing at that moment.<\/p>\n
However, I was not prepared for the change in that perfect \u201cSeasons of Sports\u201d schedule we lived by when Amy entered high school and decided to join colorguard. Practices seemed to be all the time and often games and competitions were in areas that required a 2 to 3 hour drive. Suddenly I found our family just could not be together like we used to in the past and I would have to fight back the tears when I would have to tell one of my daughters that I could not be with her. The girls would hide their disappointment but I always felt like they were crushed that I somehow \u201cpicked one kid over the other\u201d and there was a sense of sadness as we all parted in different directions.<\/p>\n
The challenge became even harder when Hayley\u2019s soccer team was in the finals and Amy had a competition 4 hours away, of course on the same day! I remember thinking if Amy gets done early \u2013 just maybe we could make Hayley\u2019s last game. Luck was on our side as another team did not show up at the competition and Amy\u2019s team was able to perform earlier! After she was done, we rushed to get to the game and I had alerted my husband that we were coming but cautioned him not to say a word to Hayley. I am not entirely sure I even parked the car properly when I jumped out to run across the soccer field to get to the game that was starting in a few minutes. I just remember the people around me seemed to all blur and from the other side of the field I could hear my daughter running and screaming \u201cMOM!\u201d I have to laugh now because there was my family in the middle of the field all crying and hugging one another while everyone must have thought we were just plain nuts! Hayley\u2019s team won the championship that day but something more important happened for us. Our family learned that while our \u201cSeasons of Sports\u201d schedule from now on may not exactly allow us to be at every event at the same time \u2013 we are still together in our hearts. Below is what our new \u201cSeasons of Sports\u201d looks like for our family now and I couldn\u2019t be more prouder to be the mom of both of my athletes – even when sometimes I can\u2019t be there to cheer them on!<\/p>\n
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Speaking of being inspired by new things \u2013 we also have a new Layout of the Week that I just loved when I saw it in the gallery. I think it was the journaling that made this even more special as I have been reflecting on how much my own girls have grown this year. Congratulations to Kara for her gorgeous layout titled \u201cDon\u2019t Blink<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n I will send you a little \u201cthank you\u201d Kara and to all the moms and dad – take a little time today to give your children a special hug or kiss \u2013 they grow so fast and sometimes we forget to treasure these little moments when we can. Happy scrapping!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone – it is me Darla. We had a little hiccup with our beloved blog and were not able to post anything until today. But no worries – we will do our best to catch up up on the days we missed! \ud83d\ude42 I will admit I am not a fan of sports and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Don't](\"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppecommunity.com\/gallery\/data\/567\/2011_5_DontBlink_web.jpg\")
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