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rivendellmom
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Posted: May 12 2005 at 10:39am \| IP Logged

I now have three children playing soccer. In our league everyone wears the same jersey. It is blue on one side reversing to white mesh on the other, depending on whether they are home or away. I have handed the smallest shirt down to the youngest and the white side is sort of dingy looking. Should I try color safe bleach? I thought it looked fine until I saw her at the game and of course all the other girls had new jerseys, so hers was yucky looking! Now, on the soccer note:
Three practices a week + three games a week + 7 months pregnant mom + one ornery teenager who does not play soccer= exhaustion. We play 7 weeks in the fall and 7 weeks in the Spring, I guess I need advice for balancing the household things that need to be done (like dinner) with my driving duties almost every night. We are not over committed, soccer is the only thing we do besides homeschool play group- but that is during the day anyhow. I just can't see eating out of a crockpot three nights a week. Plus, the practices are from 5-6:15 ish. Its too early to eat before practice, and eeveryone is starving afterwards. Any ideas?

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Posted: May 12 2005 at 12:49pm \| IP Logged

Dear jen,
I feel your pain--really, really I do. First, Oxyclean and a big long soak. But, it's possible they changed brands slightly in the interim and the mesh is whiter or easier to clean on th enewer shirts. She'll just have to live with it. Those shirts will never decompose

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The crockpot saves me. The other thing that helps around here is to insist that teenager make dinner while I'm out driving one night a week. Leave simple instructions and all the ingredients and tell him what time you expect to be home and find the table set and dinner ready. Then, you're down to two nights of the crockpot. Make one of those nights a cold salad night and prepare it in advance--I'm thinking hearty salad. I posted a recipe for one on the thread with recipes for new moms on the Fireside forum. Rice salads and pasta salads would work too.

Finally, there is a light at the end of the tunnel: That teenager will drive soon and you will have a little lightening in your schedule because he will haoppily help you chauffeur. I promise; it happened here

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Posted: May 12 2005 at 12:58pm \| IP Logged

rivendellmom wrote:

I have handed the smallest shirt down to the youngest and the white side is sort of dingy looking. Should I try color safe bleach? I thought it looked fine until I saw her at the game and of course all the other girls had new jerseys, so hers was yucky looking!

Won't all the girl's jerseys look like that in a few weeks? I don't think it is the kind of thing that the children themselves will notice.

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