Christian was one of the youngest on his team and was kind of overpowered by all the other players all the time. He rarely got the ball, but Matt kept telling him he had to run a little bit faster and work a little bit harder and he would get it! About halfway through the season, Matt told Christian he would buy him a new Lego set if he either rebounded the basketball after a missed shot or actually made a basket! Within the last minute of the last game yesterday, Christian finally rebounded a shot! He fought some of his teammates over it and came out dribbling the ball! We were so proud of him! He started dribbling and one of his teammates, of course, wanted to take the ball away from him. I heard his coach yell to this boy (who was actually his son) to get back and to let Christian dribble it down the court.
Christian made it all the way down the court until he bounced it off someone's' shoe and lost it, but still, he did it! At the beginning of the season, he could not even dribble. He was sooo proud of himself and we were proud of him too! When we got home, Matt let him pick a Lego set off of Amazon and he ordered it for him. I don't know if he is sad or happy that basketball is over, but I think he has said that he wants to play again next year.
Courtney on the other hand, is not so happy that basketball is over. We had tears last week because she had two games left and honestly, I thought we would have tears yesterday, but we didn't. She had her last game and all nine teammates were there. Some of them have caught up to skill level along with Courtney, so they all worked together as a team to play the game.
She did have a couple of great plays and even made a really long shot after the buzzer went off. They ended up tying the score with the other team (Courtney made the shot that made it a tie score), so they didn't exactly go out with a win, but that's ok. It was probably the most exciting game I have sat through this entire season. The crowd was really into it!
After the game was over, another mom came up to me and asked me if Courtney was going to the Warrior basketball camp coming up. This is the homeschool basketball league here in town. I told her that yes, Courtney wouldn't miss it for the world and she mentioned that her daughter was going too. I said, "Do you homeschool too?" She said, "Yes!" I then asked her where she lived and they live about 1/2 a mile away!!
We stood there talking a little bit and the next thing we know, Courtney and Haley (her daughter's name) were planning to get together to play basketball!! Why not?? They could probably ride their bikes to each other's house if they wanted to! This mom also said that Haley doesn't have a lot of homeschooling friends, so she is so happy that she met Courtney!
She emailed me later in the day and gave me her phone number. She told me she would love to get the girls together anytime! I sent mine back, so hopefully we will be seeing more of this girl and her mom.
I think this really helped Courtney on her last day of basketball. She could've been a mess because she has LOVED it, but she made a new friend who also loves basketball!
Now Courtney is begging me to find her another league to play in and or course, Christian says he wants to keep playing too. We will see what I find. Matt and I have two stipulations. It has to be affordable and there cannot be any games on Sundays. We set this rule long before we had kids when we would see baseball games being played on a Sunday morning by our old house. We want to make our kids' spiritual life a priority and they can not do this if they are busy with sports on a Sunday. (Now if you don't agree with me, that is perfectly fine. You have to do what is right for your family.)
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