Variations on a Similar Theme

 (Also known as: Further Travails of a Footer Mom) 

 

My second son is ‘different’. Really and truly different.  With a penchant for music and ballet and dancing, and building blocks and putting on one-act plays and puppet shows – with different voices for different characters. He also likes to run around madly in the backyard irritating our dog – he shoots him with a water gun.

My friends know we are a football family. For newcomers: Football – noun; a game that is called soccer in the US, since football here consists of men running around in tights and helmets, with the ball in their hands (you can see I am well-trained). Son1 had spent 12 years playing for the town, various clubs and the State’s Olympic Development Programme. 

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