Refreshingly Exhausting

The title of this post says it all.

Those two words are the best description of my weekend I can find.  So good. Sooo tired.

After a long week at school I rushed to meet up with the basketball team and make the trek to Marshall. MN for a scrimmage.  It was a good experience and our team is getting better.  We as coaches are finding things we can improve on overall, competing is really good for us.  After that late night we had a fun Saturday ahead.

The anual alumni game!!! :) So much fun for alumni, not as much fun for current players.  The alumni game is tough, it’s the fun friendly competition that we as alumni get to enjoy... and maybe smack talk a little… but it’s serious and used as an opportunity to get better for the current players.  I remember as a player how hard it was to take the game serious all the time, especially when your playing against some of your best friends and they are goofing around.

Lucky for me--I’m old.  So I got to goof around, which is way more my style :).

Anyway, that wore me out!  Not to mention the JV had a scrimmage that I coached and coaching is just as mentally exhausting as playing is physically exhausting.

Then comes the refreshing part.  The nature of the alumni game is so that alumni come back!!!  And it just so happens that all the girls that I graduated with (just 2) and all the girls who were juniors when I graduated came back to play! :) We were "reunited and it felt so goooood…”.

Naturally, after the game I invited al the girls over for pumpkin carving and to hang out for a while.  Us old fogies were ready to turn in by 10:30, but we pushed through.  And it was oh so worth it!

As tired and sore and just plain exhausted as I felt this morning, I had a sense of renewal.  It’s amazing what good conversation and day filled with laughter can do for a person.  Remembering stories and catching up and even sharing little pieces of our souls was accompanied by even more laughter and some delicious fall treats.  It’s been around 2 and a half years since all us were in the same place and able to share life, we’ve all grown up in different ways, which is really fun to see.  It’s funny how even though we’ve all changed, we can still come together like no time has pasted.  Sharing that time may be rare, but it’s perfect.