Even if you’ve never played a team sport in your life, we’ll bet you’ve sat at your son’s or daughter’s games shouting what they should do.  As if you knew!  As if this isn’t totally weird.  There’s a coach on the field.  And presuming it’s not you, is it really necessary to help Luke with soccer strategy from forty feet away?

Maybe this is just our way of holding on to summer.  More likely, we’re so overwhelmed with school calendars and PTA forms that we fear we may never get organized again.  Our solution: write every activity, meeting and potential playdate in our calendar, from now through next summer.  The truth is, this super advanced planning probably isn’t such a bad idea.  Every year our kids get smarter while we lose all ability to retain information. One mom we know has already planned grandparents visiting day for July 2010!