Just when basketball season was completed, soccer season was upon us. This spring we are part of LCHS' soccer teams. We compete in a middle school league, and are playing games from the middle of March through the first week of May. Four of our children are involved in playing, and two more in refereeing. Zachary and David are on the boys' team, Christiana and Charity on the girls' team, and Joel and Caleb are referees for the league. When I say that they are referees for the league I mean it. They are doing all of our games, plus games for three other schools. It's been a blessing for them. They have been refereeing games for the Cape Coral Soccer Association and other competitive soccer, but this gives them more exposure. For example, I'm writing this post on a day when we have both boys' and girls' games which Caleb will ref. Meanwhile, Joel will be at another school doing two games. Then each of them has two other games to ref after that. So while their soccer-playing siblings will each have one game, Joel and Caleb each have four.
When I was younger soccer really wasn't that big in the U.S. It was just catching on, and so you couldn't find too many leagues outside of those played by schools. But with soccer being so popular now, our children have been able to participate, and also make some money through refereeing. We're glad for the opportunity for our four soccer players to participate this spring. It is a great P.E. class for them. We're equally grateful that our two referees can work in this position and make some money while doing it.
