{"id":8716,"date":"2013-08-26T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T11:31:40","slug":"soccer-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/soccer-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Written 27 August 2013]<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to sort out what after-school activities Anna and Bjarki&#8217;ll be doing this winter. \u00a0Bjarki&#8217;s been signed up for gymnastics again (good overall gross motor skill training, last year he learnt to do a headstand against a wall, and to jump on one foot) but we&#8217;re thinking of delaying any swimming until he&#8217;s more settled into school. \u00a0So far no musical stuff for him, school for realz and gymnastics twice a week is plenty for now.<\/p>\n<p>Anna meanwhile is contemplating swimming and team handball except the schedules for those two clash somewhat, so we&#8217;re not sure what will happen. \u00a0Oh, and I think she&#8217;ll do at least one more year of piano&#8230; \u00a0she&#8217;s getting a new teacher, so we&#8217;ll have to see how that goes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as a result of Bjarki going to gymnastics, and Anna testing out a team handball practice in the total opposite direction, I felt like a true <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soccer_mom\"><em>Soccer Mom<\/em><\/a>, basically shuttling kids to and fro for over two hours. \u00a0I did fit in a grocery run, so it wasn&#8217;t a total wash, but I think we&#8217;ll have to try and bring public transport into the mix in the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8718\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos?pid=5916465008907003938&amp;oid=110673147179689483996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8718\" class=\" wp-image-8718 \" alt=\"The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VID_20130826_160753.mp4.gif\" width=\"383\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8717\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8717\" alt=\"Gymnastics practice at Gerpla has resumed.  As always, it's CRAZY BUSY and the hallways are so jammed with people dropping off and picking up kids that it's a wonder no one's gotten hurt yet.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gymnastics practice at <a href=\"http:\/\/gerpla.is\/\">Gerpla<\/a> has resumed. As always, it&#8217;s CRAZY BUSY and the hallways are so jammed with people dropping off and picking up kids that it&#8217;s a wonder no one&#8217;s gotten hurt yet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bigger version<\/strong> of the animated GIF above below the fold! <!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8744\" style=\"width: 694px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110673147179689483996\/posts\/4jNd27d4BcV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8744\" class=\" wp-image-8744  \" alt=\"The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VID_20130826_160753.mp4_big.gif\" width=\"684\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Written 27 August 2013]<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re trying to sort out what after-school activities Anna and Bjarki&#8217;ll be doing this winter. \u00a0Bjarki&#8217;s been signed up for gymnastics again (good overall gross motor skill training, last year he learnt to do a headstand against a wall, and to jump on one foot) but we&#8217;re thinking of delaying any swimming until he&#8217;s more settled into school. \u00a0So far no musical stuff for him, school for realz and gymnastics twice a week is plenty for now.<\/p>\n<p>Anna meanwhile is contemplating swimming and team handball except the schedules for those two clash somewhat, so we&#8217;re not sure what will happen. \u00a0Oh, and I think she&#8217;ll do at least one more year of piano&#8230; \u00a0she&#8217;s getting a new teacher, so we&#8217;ll have to see how that goes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as a result of Bjarki going to gymnastics, and Anna testing out a team handball practice in the total opposite direction, I felt like a true <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soccer_mom\"><em>Soccer Mom<\/em><\/a>, basically shuttling kids to and fro for over two hours. \u00a0I did fit in a grocery run, so it wasn&#8217;t a total wash, but I think we&#8217;ll have to try and bring public transport into the mix in the future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8718\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos?pid=5916465008907003938&amp;oid=110673147179689483996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8718\" class=\" wp-image-8718 \" alt=\"The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VID_20130826_160753.mp4.gif\" width=\"383\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boys born in 2007 starting their warm up in the busy hall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8717\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8717\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8717\" alt=\"Gymnastics practice at Gerpla has resumed.  As always, it's CRAZY BUSY and the hallways are so jammed with people dropping off and picking up kids that it's a wonder no one's gotten hurt yet.\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_20130826_160710-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gymnastics practice at <a href=\"http:\/\/gerpla.is\/\">Gerpla<\/a> has resumed. As always, it&#8217;s CRAZY BUSY and the hallways are so jammed with people dropping off and picking up kids that it&#8217;s a wonder no one&#8217;s gotten hurt yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Bigger version<\/strong> of the animated GIF above below the fold! <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/soccer-mom\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}