Your best just keeps getting better.

Gracie is in her 2nd season of soccer. Every week we have a practice and a game. Every week we are focusing on getting her more "aggressive." She needs to get in there and get that ball, push in there and kick hard and get it away from the opposing team. Up until recently, she would still do a little daydreaming out on the field, not run as fast, not really involve herself to the extent of how much she can. Well lately, she is ready and willing to do better, her BEST is getting better. The last 2 games have been victories for her. Not to mention their team is undefeated. Today on the way, I reminded her to keep her eye on that ball and to stay focused and to be aggressive. I think this teaches her a great lesson, not just in soccer.

She is so proud of herself because she is doing A.MA.ZING. Last week and this week, she has been right in the thick of the game, getting that ball and running and kicking toward their goal. Today she would have had the goal, only the goalie intercepted it, which is OK, because she was "IN the game." I am so proud of her and her accomplishments with her soccer skills. We see her running all over that field with a big smile on her face as she is hearing our "shouts, hollers, and squeals of delights." She has let us know, she really likes it when we root for her. Even Cole is rooting for her. She feels very proud of herself and really and truly enjoys soccer. This is giving her a new kind of self-confidence, playing as a team and knowing they all have their part in the game.

Such Innocents

"Mommy, are we flying through Heaven?" This is what Gracie asked me when we are a plane recently. It was the cutest phrase I had heard in a long time. My kids come up with the cutest things to say, and the best part? They are serious and very interested. They are inquisitive. They REALLY want to know. Sometimes I am stumped. I don't know what to say or how to respond. So sometimes I pause or don't even answer. I have to think it out. Luckily, they don't pursue me too much. It could be hours later that I come back with an answer or, shamefully, I may not come back with one at all.

I did have an answer for this one. "yes, honey we are. Because that is what Heaven is. A place high up where no one can get us, nothing can happen to us and it is SO, SO beautiful." That seemed to work and I saw her little mind go to work and think about this one. I knew she was trying to picture this in her head.