So when you last left me, I was promising to update my blog frequently. Then work happened. I am getting a computer at home soon, and although I won't be hooked to the internet, I will be able to download blog texts and quickly load them into my computer at work. I will make a concerted effort to do this on as regular a basis as possible. I miss blogging. I miss reading the blogs of others. If you will, let me know when you update yours via facebook or email until I can get into a routine of checking everything frequently. 
For my first post, I would like to tell a story about Erin and "Dominate". Dominique is a little boy who is on Erin's basketball team at school. Dominique takes the ball and goes all over the court with it Michael Jordan style. He is a wonderful ball player....on a team of five and six year olds who have never laid hands on a basketball, At practice, they don't lay hands on the ball, and at the game, they don't either,thus Erin thinks his name is Dominate--and it is very fitting, so they don't know what to do with it when they get it by chance. What on earth would they do if Dominique got sick?
It snowed. Suddenly there is a game but no Dominique. What on earth would we do?
Tuesday night, Dom did not feel up to his usual par. The coaches tried...at last...to enocourage Dom to actually pass the ball to others to get them to perform the lay up. They would toss the ball and Dom would still have to come up and get the rebound to get the ball in the net. It was truly a mismatch of skills. Finally, they showed Erin some new moves and what to do with the ball. She practiced very well.
It snowed on Friday. By Saturday Dominate was not able to come to the game. What on earth would we do without him? Enter Erin and Colton! I don't know the terminology of basketball, and I don't have the time right now to consult the web, but Erin took Dominate's position as the point man. She was to toss the ball to her teammates who were being guarded in hopes that they would get a basket. When she would find Colton open, he would get it in. When she wouldn't, she would run (travelling) left and right, in bounds and out, and desparately try to ring the basket herself. That didn't work very well. One time she threw it to her best friend Chance, who was so excited that she chose him, he didn't know what to do. When he dropped the ball and it went rolling, he fought to the death to get it back sliding out of bounds and into the frame of the door-made of steel of course- and he hurt his knee.
They had Erin play point guard next. She was to get the ball from the opposing point man before he got it to his team. He threw it over her head everytime, but one time the ball rebounded, and she caught it! Her gut reaction was to throw it right into the basket...she was on the wrong side of the court, remember. The only goal made that night by her, and it was on the wrong side of the court!!!
I told her as the point guard she was to take the ball from the opposer. Up to this point, they have been playing polite ball. She reached out and snatched the ball from her opposer, twice her size. The ball went rolling, but was recovered by her teammates.
All in all, they lost 18 to 6, but they finally learned what to do with the ball. Maybe next week!
Look for other entries soon!
For my first post, I would like to tell a story about Erin and "Dominate". Dominique is a little boy who is on Erin's basketball team at school. Dominique takes the ball and goes all over the court with it Michael Jordan style. He is a wonderful ball player....on a team of five and six year olds who have never laid hands on a basketball, At practice, they don't lay hands on the ball, and at the game, they don't either,thus Erin thinks his name is Dominate--and it is very fitting, so they don't know what to do with it when they get it by chance. What on earth would they do if Dominique got sick?
It snowed. Suddenly there is a game but no Dominique. What on earth would we do?
Tuesday night, Dom did not feel up to his usual par. The coaches tried...at last...to enocourage Dom to actually pass the ball to others to get them to perform the lay up. They would toss the ball and Dom would still have to come up and get the rebound to get the ball in the net. It was truly a mismatch of skills. Finally, they showed Erin some new moves and what to do with the ball. She practiced very well.
It snowed on Friday. By Saturday Dominate was not able to come to the game. What on earth would we do without him? Enter Erin and Colton! I don't know the terminology of basketball, and I don't have the time right now to consult the web, but Erin took Dominate's position as the point man. She was to toss the ball to her teammates who were being guarded in hopes that they would get a basket. When she would find Colton open, he would get it in. When she wouldn't, she would run (travelling) left and right, in bounds and out, and desparately try to ring the basket herself. That didn't work very well. One time she threw it to her best friend Chance, who was so excited that she chose him, he didn't know what to do. When he dropped the ball and it went rolling, he fought to the death to get it back sliding out of bounds and into the frame of the door-made of steel of course- and he hurt his knee.
They had Erin play point guard next. She was to get the ball from the opposing point man before he got it to his team. He threw it over her head everytime, but one time the ball rebounded, and she caught it! Her gut reaction was to throw it right into the basket...she was on the wrong side of the court, remember. The only goal made that night by her, and it was on the wrong side of the court!!!
I told her as the point guard she was to take the ball from the opposer. Up to this point, they have been playing polite ball. She reached out and snatched the ball from her opposer, twice her size. The ball went rolling, but was recovered by her teammates.
All in all, they lost 18 to 6, but they finally learned what to do with the ball. Maybe next week!
Look for other entries soon!
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