The Sewing Mom

The Olympics are almost over and then it’s time for football season! This is truly my husband’s favorite time of year. He’s been attempting to watch NFL preseason football games on television, but it’s difficult when we’re all wanting to watch the Olympics at the same time. Of course, I’m always on the computer while watching t.v., multi-tasking is what I call it. This would definitely not be a time when we would want to be without our television or internet service!

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After staying up extra late the past 2 weeks watching the Olympics, I had to get up early this morning to get my daughter out to the ball fields.  Softball tryouts were today.

Maybe because we’ve been staying up late, or maybe it just wasn’t meant to be, today did not go well.  She just looked like she was dragging.  No enthusiasm, no energy.  I was sort of hard to watch and it went on for 3 hours.

I’m very sad for my daughter, I thought softball was what she wanted to do.  She tells me it is.  She loves the game.  She plays so very well.  But when it comes to a tryout, she just can’t seem to pull it all together.  She looks like she’s miserable.  Today, for the first time, I felt like I was forcing her to do something she didn’t want to do.

I’m going to try to let it go for now.  She will have to decide what she wants to do.  The one thing she lacks is confidence.  She has the skills and the talent, but she never thinks she is as good as she is or can be.  I don’t know how to build her confidence.  It makes me want to cry.  How can she be so gifted and not know it?

It makes me even sadder to think that she may not choose to try again and all of her talent will go to waste.  But, in the end, it is her choice.  I just have to give her room to make a decision.

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