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On Friday afternoon I was asked to fill in for a touch team that night at 6.30pm. I’d never played for this team before. Didn’t really know who was in it. Playing meant delaying Friday drinks. I say that like it’s an ‘occasion’ but it’s really Dave and I avoiding the children’s bedtime with a can in hand …
Our 5th season as rugby parents has just come to a close, and with that our washing machine, gumboots, weekday evenings and Saturday mornings breathe a collective sigh of relief! Don’t get me wrong, we LOVE rugby, but it’s a big commitment at J1 level – and the commitment is required by the whole family, not just Ethan. In terms …
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.” ethan: i realised this week that sometimes two 9 year old boys are better than one, especially when daddy is away. i love seeing you play with your mates like this; dirty, independent, loud, rough, but also fun, kind, sharing and relishing the camaraderie a like-minded friend brings. don’t grow up …
E has been limping around the house, limping around the rugby field and walking on his tip-toes for about 6 weeks now. As he has some pretty brilliant melodramatic tendencies we just assumed his complaints were to be taken with a grain of salt. That his odd gait was something that had become a bad habit needing to be broken. …
After an amazing game against Helensville on Saturday {Ethan’s team won 120-10!}, he had to don his mouthguard again on Sunday {I had to get up at 6am!!!!} for the Barbarians tournament in Devonport. I was quite unprepared for the size of the tournament, there were schools from all over Auckland and hundreds of keen-as, rugby mad kids ready to …
Autumn begins {officially} tomorrow, though some would argue it actually began in December! All hope of summer is lost so we might as well look forward to the winter sports season hooray! Kumeu Rugby Club held its first junior registration evening tonight and the turn-out was good, not surprising really. We all figured Rugby registrations would be up this …