The other week I wrote a bit about the serious side of being a gymnastics mum and about how loving our sportswomen daughters, supporting them and encouraging them is our role. And then this post on being a rugby mum (which I already am and which I suspect I have many more years of!) by […]
Can the sofa get your sporty motivation back?
Apparently it can. My Netflix challenge this month was to find a way to make couple time, which is… in the run up to Xmas with 5 kids, a toy shop and a rugby and gymnastics club to take an active part in running… something of a challenge. We have, however, managed to work our […]
Level 6. For the 800th time.
This weekend was the return of the Level 6 gym competition; it was a big day for all three gym girls. Josie was determined to be top of the pile, having had to miss doing Level 5 for this year because a couple of moves just weren’t ready and Amelie, who hadn’t competed for 3 […]
And now she is 10.
My youngest little girl is ten. One of my friends said something yesterday that I’ve been thinking all week. When my big girls were ten, they were practically grown up. Josie is still just a baby. Surely, she is still just a baby? But she isn’t. She is, as all ten years old girls are, […]
Level 4 for Fran.
Keeping up with the family records for posterity; Fran did Level 4 in gymnastics for the first time the other week. She did really well, a clean enough round bar two muppetty falls on beam. One was hilarious (she’s never going to forget it) and cost her 2nd overall and if she hadn’t fallen the […]
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You don’t have to know much about us to know that sport is a major theme in this house; from gymnastics to taekwondo, rugby to dancing, running to netball, everyone in the house spends many hours a week partaking in team or individual sports. It’s one of the few places that we all overlap in […]
Fran starts competing again.
After a year off competing since joining their new gymnastics club, Fran had her first comp this weekend. The club didn’t get regional accreditation until after the level she would have liked to do had gone past, so she revisited a Level she has done before to get back into the swing of things. It’s […]
An achievement of mind over things that don't matter.
Of all the things I could get angry about, Amelie’s beam cartwheel is the thing that I still can’t really let go of. I am still so cross that temporarily losing a gym move, when she was only just 8, led to a bout of what I still think was just bullying and meant she […]
Not such a gym mum any more.
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged gym stuff. There are lots of reasons for this, time being one of them. One day I’ll write more of what I think about it all but now is probably not the time. The girls still get a great deal out of it, though it has less […]
Thank goodness for structure.
Well, if I’m strictly honest, thank goodness for structure AND Groovy Girls, since the younger two girls are spending a quantity of every day playing with them. Who would have thought that ‘groovy girl gym’ could be such an enduring game???? I’m not complaining though, they are so eager to get back to playing together […]
