Rhythms and movements

Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to kill me before the softball season is over. 12 miles from work to pick up Darby from school. Another 12 miles from school to softball practice, 15 miles from softball practice to her mom's house to pick up Shelby. Then 11 miles to get home. And, of course, that doesn't count the 8 miles to school from home and the 12 miles from the school to work in the morning. But it's not the distances, it's the bloody traffic. Which I know is nothing compared to Philly or Dallas traffic, but in particular the traffic to get from school to softball is among the worst in the this city, and I've tried ALL the routes just about. Usually, with all the highways in this town, you can find some sort of alternate route that isn't as bad. But so far that is just not the case. In nearly all scenarios, I have to traverse downtown to get to softball practice, so we're always hitting terrible traffic. I mean, today, I picked up Darby with more than an hour to spare, and we barely made it to practice (we did stop for dinner but that was less than ten minutes as we ate on the road).

Anyway, softball practice was decent. Darby did a little better fielding today over Tuesday, and she had a few solid hits into the outfield. But defensively they stuck her in the outfield most of the practice, which is semi-understandable considering how solid the girls they have playing the infield are, but it's frustrating for me to see her standing around so much. My opinion on the matter is that your least solid infielders should get 50% of their time in the infield during practice, or they'll never be as solid as the others.

On the way from softball practice to drop off Darby at her mom's, Darby informed me that they had their first rhythm and movement class today, and that she LOVED it. Her exact words were, "Dad, I LOVE rhythm and movement class." She says they learned ballroom dancing, the waltz, a country music dance, and a few others. She said it was SO much fun, and basically couldn't shut up about it almost the whole trip. Which is good, but I get it already. :)

When I got to her mom's, I was informed that fencing went MUCH better today than Tuesday, and that they wrapped up their practice tournament, in which Shelby earned second place in her age group. I guess our talk on Tuesday night about maybe removing her from fencing because she seemed disinterested had a positive effect.



Update
Forgot to mention that the softball season starts 11 Sep, and there's a pre-season tournament the weekend before. The calendar has been updated, though we won't have the actual season schedule until after the tournament.