I am alive

I know I'm doing a horrible job of keeping up with my blog, but most of you that read this know I'm alive. We are in crunch time for high school volleyball with middle school volleyball set to start very soon. My JV team finished first in the conference. Our final record was 15-3. We had one conference loss at the last game of the season. We had been playing horrible all week and the last one got to us. I've had some good conversations with some of my freshmen since then so I'm excited about next year's team. We asked five girls to play up on Varsity for the play-offs. One said "Do I have to?" Two others simply did not show up to practice on Friday. One was here yesterday for our game, but missed today because she was getting her nails done for Homecoming on Friday. Coach and I are trying to decide what to do if she shows up to play tomorrow. We wouldn't want her to break a nail. Varsity started our conference tournament on Monday. We won easily on Monday. We are the #2 seed in our conference. We played West Lincoln tonight and just about lost. It was some pretty high emotion games. We play for the conference championship tomorrow. No matter what the outcome for that game we'll play at home on Saturday for the first round of the state play-offs. The way we played tonight, we might not see much past this weekend. There's always hope for our team to go on a run of good playing. Middle school ball is set to start on Monday. Patrick and I have our game plan ready and hope to find some good girls in our week long try-outs. I'll be glad to be coaching a team at my own school and not having to travel so much. I might over-lap for a few days but more than likely not too many. So between all of that and simply being an 8th grade teacher I'm staying pretty busy. Most of my time has been in Lincoln County the past couple of weeks. I'm finally starting to feel somewhat better - still coughing but hopefully that will go away soon. I've got a pretty busy weekend planned and hopefully will fit everything into it. I'm learning to better appreciate my teammates at school. We are coming together well and they truly do care about me. It's nice to be reminded that someone loves you. I've got to go work on some lesson plans for tomorrow. I hope to write again before another two weeks go by. I hope you are well as you are reading this!