Volleyball last night was EXCELLANT! Our team won the first two games by 10 points, then we played a third for fun and won that one by 8 points! YEAH, RED RAIDERS!

All the girls were having a blast, laughing and encouraging each other, high fives, and pats on the backs. FANTASTIC team. I am so proud of my own two girls on that team. They HUSTLE and they work together and they encourage everyone. And they tell me what a great coach I am and how glad they are that I volunteered. What sweethearts. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

As an afterthought....WH was there. They had chairs set up on one side of the net along the sidelines for the parents. All the parents sat there, except for WH. He got a chair from somewhere in the back and sat all by himself along the other side of the net. ?? What's that about?

I laughed, I joked, I encouraged, I high fived and patted on the back, gave pointers, tips, etc. YEAH! I was confident and secure!....and hardly knew the wallpaper existed.

I still need to update you all on his recent behavior with DDs and my disagreement with my mother. I'm just having a good day right now and I don't want to go back to that and get all mad and defensive for DDs.

I will quickly say that DD13 has said that WH and MOW "make out" alot. Kissing excessively, etc. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> DD13 shudders and says it is gross. DD12 doesn't say a thing.

Is this how he expects his DDs to behave when they have boyfriends? Is he going to be okay with them kissing and groping, etc right in front of him? I don't think so....

Fox

Hi Horses!

Great job on the coaching! That is such a huge rewarding experience and it sounds like you are one of the good positive ones. I am coaching 3 basketball games Sunday. Everyone is hearing I am not coaching right now so I am getting a lot of requests to help. It’s great!

Regarding the “making out” in front of the kids; BAAAAARRRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

That’s terrible. Those poor kids. Sdguy and I will hold him for you.

But it sounds like you Plan B’d him good. So he sits by himself to stand out. What a yutz. Oh well if everyone there knew the whole story they would not sit with him anyway. He probably smells like OW spoiled tuna.

Have a great weekend. Good job coach!

I'm glad to hear the coaching is going so well, Fox. I really enjoy the coaching I do and feel the same way--engaged, supportive, confident. It's awesome.

My WW does the same thing--at the baseball games she stands off away from everyone else. I have to assume it's guilt/shame. I can't imagine that she'll ever willingly talk to any of our neighbors again, either (so long as she's wayward). The waywards have to feel it as part of the consequences of their actions.

Making out in front of the kids is disgusting. Just disgusting. Is it all right if I inflict some of my own damage while Chris and I are holding him?

I agree with Chris that you're doing a great job.

Wonderful news about the game fox! I bet it's a lot of fun to be involved with your DD's that way.

And you WH does THAT in front of your DD's??? That's so disgusting!! You're poor DD's... he has no idea (or cares) about what he's doing to them. I'd be willing to bet he wants it to get back to you.

I wonder if you can use that info as ammo for your no overnights with opposite sex request? Probably wishful thinking on my part...

You are doing great!!! I hope your rodeo this weekend is a blast too.

I wonder a little bit about the making out part. Is he doing that for my benefit, because he knows it will get back to me through DDs? Not that everything has to be about me...but OW S7 tells his Dad that they hardly ever kiss or touch very much, they just sit and watch tv. At the beginning they wrestled and fooled around, etc, now there isn't much of that.

Oh well, he won't get a reaction from me. He can suck face with trash all he wants. (I always hated that expression, but it seems to fit here).

He is depleting any last little residue of respect his DDs had for him by behaving that way. Like when he yelled at them for lying to him....but wait, he's been lying to them for MONTHS! One of those "do as I say, not as I do" moments, I guess.

Back to the coaching...it was so great. I've never coached before. I'm pretty quiet and reserved. I've been teaching the kids to tip instead of spike because most of them are too short to reach the net and make a good spike. They've missed a few opportunities before but last night one of the players made a PERFECT tip. She was so excited and danced around the floor and sing-songed "I learned that cool move from my coach, BS" She must have done it 3 or 4 times. It was all so silly and fun....but at the same time, they were so successful. It is so rewarding to watch them do well and work so well as a team. Most of these girls are not friends at school during the day but really pull together at practice. PROUD PROUD PROUD



oooooh, shudder, shudder, cringe!


You have a great weekend, too. Glad to hear you are having your own fun coaching. I was apprehensive when DDs first asked me because it is just not something I thought I was very confident in doing. Thankfully I have a great group of girls that give me as much good feedback as I give them.

Thanks for the coaching kudos and the back up for the "make-out" sessions. It just disgusts DDs (and me, too). There goes more withdrawals out of my lovebank. There isn't much left at all anymore. His continued behavior towards DDs just make me sick.

Thanks, too, for the offers to hold and assist in the butt kickage of WH for his icky behavior. If only that could fix it.....

I can’t think what would be worse; swapping spit with the tuna in front of the kids because he’s stupid, or doing it as a demonstration to use the kids to get at you?

Sick sick sick sick sick. It makes you want to throw them into the front yard and hose them down with a high pressure Hotsy washer.

Get the Batmobile Sdguy, we have work to do (we may have to put off that trip to Italy).

Montana, right? I've always wanted to spend some time in Montana.

Think we'll be back in time for Italy?

hahaha! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> You guys just made me BUST OUT laughing again.

I just imagined what I believe the two of you to look like, flying in the Batmobile over the mountains and rivers to teach WH a lesson.... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I'm grateful to know there are good guys out there. Hope you wear your white hats when you are in the Batmobile. WH owns (doesn't wear it anymore) a black one (honestly!)...go figure. Always gotta watch what color hat a guy wears.

Look, if these guys are having a hard time coming to the rescue, just call me, I'll bring my armor plated braclets and golden lariat with me, and kick some WS butt myself.
I always like those knee high boots Wonder Woman wore, and that little crown.

Will I be laughed out of Montana with my green World Wildlife Fund baseball cap?

Wow SL,

It’s already been established that I am a visual thinker so I am all about that Wonder Woman look. Don't wear the old skirt if you fly over us in the invisible plane. We'll wreck the Batmobile.

It happily erases the earlier thoughts Horses and I tossed around about ugly red-butted, bug eating wayward baboons. Opps there I go again.

Must…..Think….Of…..Wonder……Woman…..Not ……Wayward……Baboons….

Not at all, we get those things in the mail all the time! (You might get a few snickers about the Batmobile though) The majority of us in MT are great advocates of wildlife conservation and a baseball cap is definately an acceptable alternative to a cowboy hat. More baseball caps around than cowboy hats, anyhow.

The wolf debate is a very touchy subject, though. Stay away from that one.....

And if you are from California, North Dakota, or New York (back East, in general)... don't tell anyone. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Don't know exactly why, natives just have a "thing" about those particular areas.

If you are from Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, or Wyoming, you are already one of us.

These visuals just crack me up! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I can just seeing you all arriving! And WH and MOW shaking in fear.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hey, I'm from Colorado. Does that make Sdguy the faithful sidekick?

I had to pick myself up off the floor! I can just see you guys going down in a tailspin because SL flew over in Wonder Woman gear. Ah....the power of a woman! hehee Yup, much better than those gross baboons. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

If this is a struggle for you, we'll need more time drinking vino than I thought.

I guess I'll leave my International Wolf Center t-shirt home. And, um, introduce myself as MidWestGuy038. 39 now.

I don't know if he wants to be Robin.....there's been rumors about Robin.....

But if he is checking out SL in Wonder Woman gear....


sdguy, whats the sd stand for? It ain't in referance to a CA city is it?

Come on, you can admit it.... Chris and I will forgive you, right Chris?

We will get a Class V Reese hitch installed on the Batmobile and pull a horse trailer to fit in better up in Montana.

Can't use that big flaming tube after-burner thingy though or well be eating horse steak.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Yuck!