Panic Attacks: Basketball Bleachers

12 Dec 2011 2 Comments

by Zoe in Anxiety / Panic Attacks, Love my Kids! Tags: anxiety, bleachers, panic attacks

Here we go again.

Back to the Bleachers for kid3′s basketball games.  Last year I sat there for Kid2.  You all know how I love bleachers!  Darned athletic kids!  lol

The games started this past Saturday.  Kid3 didn’t go because he came home from school on Friday with pink eye.   Hubby took him to the doctor Saturday AM and got drops.  He was contagious and his eyes were very icky. So he didn’t go.  It cleared up pretty quickly – I think because we got the drops so quickly.  His buddy at school had it so I was on the lookout for it.

Today is also a basketball scrimmage for Kid3.  The coach decided it was a great idea to have 9 & 10 year olds travel an hour and 15 minutes on a school night for a scrimmage.  What?  I don’t know how this game came about – I suspect she works with someone who coaches at this school and they thought this was a fun idea.  Why did the parents all agree to this?  I said it was silly and I said no, kid3 didn’t have to go.  Hubby thought that it would be just terrible if kid3 missed it, so he took him tonight.  They left at 4:00 for a 6-8pm scrimmage since he isn’t quite sure where this school is.  Who knows what time they will get home.  Ridiculous.  Amazingly though all other parents except one agreed to go.  Sports rule in this town.  Geesh.

This coming Saturday I will probably miss his game because of the Christmas party at my brother’s house.  Hubby & kid1 will probably just come to the party a little late.  If I was not making hot food & and a good portion of the meal, I might go to the game first too.  But let’s be honest…  Yay – I have a reason not to go!  I’m not a bad mom, I just have other commitments and previous plans for that day that cannot be changed.  Right?  Right.

Seriously though I am making a lot of food.  Brother’s wife doesn’t cook.  Don’t get me started.  So it is a legitimate reason.  :D

SO what all this means is that I don’t have to deal with the basketball bleachers again until January 7th!  Yee haw.  I can just put that out of my mind and decide to worry about it later.