I find it odd (or random, or depressing, or indicative of my life), that after spending most of my 20s learning to think of the year in seasons instead of the school calendar, I live in a world dictated not only by the school calendar, but by the overlaid sports calendar.

I am lucky to be able to basically take summer & winter vacations with my kids. and if it was just that, it would be one thing.  But last week I made a color coded spreadsheet to figure out C’s comp schedule.  and this is a season with only one kid competing.

Spring and Fall are soccer season, which means 2 games on weekends.  except for the weekends that C’s team has 2 games, or a tournament in Pacifica and Palo Alto.  that’s the easy part.  getting them to practice and home has evolved into a 5 families, 9 kids, 3 fields, 4 drivers endeavor.  But at least that’s settled and fairly predictable.

The freeski comp schedule across two leagues is a whole new ball of wax.  When we signed her up last Spring, her team was competing in the North Tahoe League.  Which is a little tricky to get her to comps and Lib to team, but totally doable.  Then, less than a month before the season started, her head coach decided they should move to the South Tahoe League.  Which means that all but 2, TWO, of her comps will be at the other end of a huge lake, and she needs to be there by 8am, and it’s an hour and a half around the lake if there is no ice or snow or traffic.  So we’re looking at which of the North Tahoe comps she can substitute and still have a reasonable shot at making Nationals.  But there is no way to look at the North and South Tahoe schedules at the same time on the website.  Hence my spreadsheet.  and then she’s competing in 3 different events that lead to 3 separate rankings.  hence the color coding.

I’ve become “one of those mom’s” as this super achiever woman at Mia’s birthday party last month called me when David told her my daughter was ranked 12th in the nation in her sport (for her age group).