Last night while attending my almost 6 YO’s Kindergarten Soccer Practice for a new neighborhood team it dawned on me as I looked around the other fields.

All the faces were the same since we started only a little older! Not just the kids who are growing up in a nonstop fashion, but the faces watching the practices were the same moms and dads, which is understandable!

No matter the sport, the faces are the same and we are among them!

My 5YO is on the right in the photo and check out the diva on the left playing in knee high boots!  The dude in the middle is our daily competition at school to be first in line.

And yes, we are the green no.7, team name to be determined…

So there this At Home Dad (me) was, at the elementary school dropping my son off at Kindergarten after riding our bikes to school as we always do. I was standing near the flagpole which I lock his bike to school which is near the closest in bike rack that is always full by the time we get there; it is not like we need to lock his bike up as most of the other bikes are just sitting there unlocked with helmets hanging, I am just teaching him responsibility and how to care for things he truly cherishes.

Anyway, I was standing there checking the compression on my front shocks and thinking what a great day for a ride and where to go on my ride seeing how I just broke my RD mountain bike out for the snow season and let my K2 Dad cruiser bike have the winter off and I heard it, pssssst. Strange I thought, that sounds just like air escaping I thought as I looked around for the culprit thinking somebody is going to be bummed after school when they find a flat tire and then I smelled it!

You know the rubber like smell air has after it has spent time inside an inner tube? My shocks just got squishier when I noticed the my front tire was squishy; only it did not take me till after school to be bummed as I just got bummed in the here and now, that flat was mine! I now had to walk and push my bike home, all .62 miles, oh well it was a beautiful morning for a walk and I was going to do a ride anyway so off I went. I had a few minutes to plan my strategy for the day and how to get to Target to get not 1 but two inner tubes, yes I will pack a spare from now on while thinking I was oh so luckily to be within .75 miles of home when the dreaded pssssst happened and I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened.

I log near a thousand miles most summers and never had a pssssst till last summer when my rear tire decided rebel on the way home from the pool a ¼ mile from the house!

I learned my lesson this time as I won’t be so lucky next time it happens, 2 summers, 2 flast and both were within .75 miles of home!

Sarah Palin and John McCain, is this a winning ticket?  Mrs. Palin yes, Mr. McCain I am not so sure.

I am very impressed to date with Sarah Palin. A mom with a pregnant daughter and a challenged infant son and who will be married to an At Home Dad; I know these points will not hold up with the G8 but this lady has been the supreme diplomat going to “war”, and that should be worth something.

Not a day goes by that I do not see more and more “Senior Moment” expressions from John McCain when he is publicly speaking.    I am more than aware that they said public speaking is not one of his strengths, but isn’t that 75% of the job?  Projecting an image of strength and determination?  How would our war heroes when going off to the battle, react to a veteran who has been there, done that and more but does not project an image of confidence at the microphone?  I know if I were one of them I would sure question the man’s ability!

These “Senior Moment” expressions come when he is speaking and says something that could be termed a “sharp witted” or thought provoking. He makes a statement that he knows is good and then stops and poses with a not too flattering smirk on his face as if he is waiting to say “huh, huh, aren’t I smart” or “how about them apples” to follow up with. What are the other world leaders going to say and laugh about, behind his back after our possible geriatric leader has left the room at world conferences?

And what is up with the guy’s arms? In all the photographs I have seen of him embracing another public figure, it is as if his arms do not want to work as intended; I mean in the photo below, GW does not have a girth but it appears as if Mr. McCain is straining to reach his side. Is he indeed truly healthy? Has he ever used Botox;and the more I have to endure video of McCain the more I question this man’s physical and mental faculties.  Now do not get me wrong, I respect and admire this man and his past to no end; it is just that he is trying to do something he should have been trying 20 or 30 years ago when he was in his prime and not now when the sun should be setting on his illustrious career.

I think this ticket should be reversed, Palin for President and ask her if he has the faculty to be our no. 2. After she got over all the formalities and politeness you know what her answer would be.  The more and more I see and listen to Sarah Palin, the more impressed I am. 

Who would she get as a runningmate?  Mrs. Palin for President!