Practice five nights a week. PT between school and skills clinic. Birthdays squeezed in between games. Day 14 of takeout.
We’re a multi-sport tournament family content brand for the parents whose calendars look like war rooms. Soccer, hockey, baseball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, rugby — same chaos, same canopy, same coffee.
This isn’t normal. The other families are doing it too. Welcome.
— Tournament Parent
The Stories Are Already Piling Up
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Day 14
The Thai place knows my order. The Thai place asks if I want my “usual.” The Thai place asked tonight if everything was okay at home. It is Day 14. Two consecutive weeks. The kitchen has been used twice in fourteen days, both times to boil water for pasta that nobody finished because we left…
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Two States Away
We left at 4:47 AM on a Friday in January for a tournament in Hershey, Pennsylvania. That sentence used to sound insane to me. I would read it on somebody else’s Facebook post and think: that family is broken. Something has gone wrong over there. They have lost the plot. Now I write the sentence…