The Grand Finale

This morning started off without much of a bang.  Actually, the power was off.  The power company distributed information a few days ago saying that the power would be out for the day.  i quickly remembered this and carried. on.  My alarm clock is on my phone so I don't worry a lot about power outages.  So I was up on time and rollin forth.  My biggest challenge was getting Jack and Andy up and ready so that we could get to their games in time.  We managed well enough but my plan was to get out early so I could stop at the store for the treats that we were in charge of. 

Now read here, there is a law that requires children to sleep in on any day in which they are needed to arise early.  What a royal pain in the backside.  I fail to remember this on a regular basis.  The flip side of that law is that any morning in which they can sleep in they somehow manage to wake up earlier then normal.  Why? 

So this morning I was trying to get to boys moving that did not want to wake up.  We did manage to get it together and out the door just in time.  The challenge with that was that it was just in time for the games and not for picking up the treats.  I knew I should have taken care of that last night but did not account for the sleep in law.  Natty took Andy to his practice/game and I then dropped Jack off with his team.  I had to make a run to the store.  I got back with the treats and half time snacks just as halftime started.  Good timing. 

Then the news - Jack scored a goal!  Sweet.  I missed it.  Not sweet. I asked him about it a little later and he told me how it happened.  He gave it two superkicks.  The initial superkick came off of a dead ball so Jack lined up for it.  He was all business and actually went as far back as he could go - in his own goal and backed up in the net.  This was serious.  He was off and on his way when the net tripped him up.  No matter, he got up and backed it up again and again he was off.  No tripping up this time, no, this time his head got caught up in the net.  Well the third time was the charm.  He backed it up again and made a clean take off.  After clearing the goal he managed to super kick the ball and then followed it down the field and super kicked it again.  This time it ended up in the goal.  Way to go Jack! 

It really was quite nice that on the last game of the season Jack pulled out a big one.  He played the entire game and did great.  He actually brought his train to the game to watch him play and he did not disappoint with his classic check himself out in the shadow run accompanied by a few random run ins with the other team.  He played strong and it was a good showing.  Nice to see him at the top of his game and like many great athletes, he knows when to hang em up.  He has officially retired from soccer.   Jack my boy, you will be missed on the Socer field.  Thanks for the memories and congratulations.  Thank you also for the Grand Finale.  Quite a delight.