With so much snow and rain this year, the kids’ soccer soccer season kept getting delayed. The sun finally came out on Saturday and it was glorious. In between ferrying all three kids to their various fields, we got to appreciate glimpses of the miracles wrought by all that water:

As usual, there were tragedies and triumphs…This is the face of tragedy:

Tragedy

The tragedy was not the fact that his team lost, but the fact that between 7:40 and 8 am when this child had to leave for his game, a desperate, angst-filled search for the orange socks needed to complete his splendid ensemble was all for naught:

Red Socks…A Sartorial Tragedy

Speaking of red…I have officially begun working on my Soccer Mom Tan:

Ouch.