A Charmed Life

I am starting to feel sorry for Kenzie's brothers. They have to watch as almost everything that goes wrong for Kenzie actually turns out positive, while the boys seem to run into normal obstacles with normal results. One big example is soccer. Connor's big sports passion is playing soccer. He's one of the best kids, his age, around here at playing the game. He's been on travel teams and just loves it. Over the past few years, however, there have a series of unfortunate events that have not allowed him to play on a travel team. He really, really wants to play on the travel team, but it just hasn't worked, not because of any lack of skill on his part, but because of various extenuating circumstances. Kenzie is just as as athletic as Connor, but has chosen to devote her energies to softball, not soccer. I think I mentioned in this blog (maybe not) that, while being rostered on a travel softball team, she also got recruited for a travel soccer team. I told the soccer coach that Kenzie would not have time to both sports, and besides, we couldn't afford it. The soccer coach didn't care. She got the fees waived and eagerly accepted Kenzie on her roster, in whatever capacity Kenzie could offer, even if it was only to help at practice. Kenz did wind up playing in a few games, but not many. We are still trying to find some way to get Connor on a travel soccer team.

On to the cell phone incident. As I'm sure you've guessed, Kenzie experienced an incident remarkably similar that which Silly Sally went through. To extend the story, in Kenzie's case, no one was informed of the loss of the cell phone until I asked where it was. Needless to say, the dead make more noise than that which could be heard in our house at that moment. The cover-up is always worse than the crime. Kenzie is now in so much trouble she cannot believe she will see the light of the new day. Punishment would have been fairly minimal; accidents do happen, but lieing by omission, DOESN'T; not without consequences. She has been saving money for a top-of-the-line softball bat (upwards of $250) and just about has enough to finally get it. A replacement cell phone would virtually wipe our her savings -- and her new bat. Here comes the charmed part: on a whim, Vicki dug out an old cell phone, called Verizon, and in five minutes had it activated with the lost phone's number. Kenzie's savings was saved. She is still grounded for a month, though.