Well its been sometime since Ive put fingers to keys to come up with something. Over the past summer as Im sure many of you experienced, its been quite busy and its hard to find the time to do anything other than summer time activities, prepare and plan for school and get into the “summer’s over” mentality.
This summer has been an exciting one for me. My first attempt at coaching was a success. Just a couple of weeks ago we had an end of season party by the splash pad near Guardian Angels school and Team Chudleighs drank pop, ate pizza and talked about our great season and all the fun we had.
My goals for the team were simple yet still a challenge. The first goal was obviously to have fun. No one gets into sports when they are kids to NOT have fun, and I wanted to make sure that at the end of every practice and every game each one of my teammates had fun. The second goal was to give them a bit more knowledge on the game of soccer. With the help of my assistant coach Gary Hans, we acomplished that in spades. Each one of the kids came out with a bit more knowledge and love for the sport and if it wasnt for Gary and his help, it would have been much harder for me to do….again “THANK YOU” Gary. I’d coach with you anytime.
It was a bit emotional during that party as each one of the kids came up and thanked me for the fun season and they hoped I’d be their coach next year…that was the best gift of all. I created my own trophy by taking our game ball from the season and got each one of them to sign it. Its something I’ll be keeping for a very long time…and for sure, If all goes well, I’ll be back next season to coach (if theyll have me)
As for Milton and the happenings politically its been rather slow. There were some major changes to user fees in town and more will be coming on the impact of those increases in a coming post.
The summer was good to us and I hope the fall is just as good … if not better. The chill of fall was in the air over the weekend and soon the leaves will be turning as we all begin to look forward to an autumn of changes. The ride never seems to end.