Rival Game

Tonight is our game against Westwood, our rivals. After a loss against Round Rock, we've had 2 big wins against Cedar Park and Vista Ridge. We lost last week to the district front-runner, Stony Point. So, this game, as well as the rest of our schedule, has playoff implications for us. I really want to go to the playoffs this year, as I've never been in my time as a coach. We have some work to do over the next few weeks.

The Freshman "B" team won a crazy one last night, with a Hail Mary pass with 8 seconds left and an ensuing 2-point conversion. Final score was 14-13, McNeil. The "A" team had a chance to win, but ended up losing in the end.

We are still experimenting with Caleb this 6-weeks. We are trying not to "prod" him about his homework, grades, band-practice, etc. Hopefully this will give him a safe place to "fail" early in the year. I hope he will begin to see and understand the need to take responsibility for his work and set a standard of good habits to come. I'd rather him fail early on and then learn to do well, then to hand-hold him all the way to high school and then wonder why he hasn't learned to do things on his own. I'm seeing a little bit of maturity arising in him, but he is at that weird age of 6th grade, where he still is holding on to childish behavior and things. Work in progress. :-)

Next Friday is Halloween, but for the first year, I won't be able to go with Dina and the kids. I have a football game against Leander that night. Caleb will be at his first sleepover party that night. So, Dina will be taking the other three on their own. I think they are just going to "trick-or-treat" in our new neighborhood. I'll miss it. :-(

Not a whole lot else going on. We just got paid and I'm going to go pay off my car next week. Yay! But, we accumulated more debt last month and it will take a few months to get back on track. :-(