Not Just Another Pretty Face in the Stands

I am always on the hunt for a new purse that can lug all the stuff I need to tend to four children and a host of teams who always need something — tylenol, Band-Aids, safety pins, Kleenex, gum - and carry my personal belongings, wallet, sunglass case, make-up case, keys, digital camera, video camera, Game Boy, subscriptions to all my magazines - and that I won’t fret about when stuffing it under a stadium seat or on the gym floor where they are subject to Cokes, nachos, you name it. I have several but I found one this summer that has become my main go-to bag this season. And I read about it on . And when someone asks me about it, I can tell them about the it went to instead of saying, I received it when I bought a bunch of make-up (I’m a sucker for GWP - gift with purchase). And, isn’t the little No. 1 on the reverse side appropriate for a coaches wife? The of the bag feeds one child for one year. It was designed by Lauren Bush for . For $59.95, I bought one for my Mom. As Tim Gunn would say, “carry on.”

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In Class 3A Stafford - right outside of Houston - administrators are working to put coaches in the driver’s seat — the bus driver’s seat, that is. is reporting this morning that coaches would do a better job than the substitute bus drivers they have used in the past.

In the Panhandle, Amarillo ISD is facing a lawsuit from two mothers whose sons were injured in an automobile accident while being transported by private vehicle to off-campus batting practice. Details are in the 

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Writing this morning from Austin, the site of this year’s coaching school. Sometimes, coaching school is the only way coaching families are able to squeeze in any vacation time. I am stalling before I lace up my running shoes and take off for a quick run around the hotel. I am super-psyched today because I am planning on visiting one of my two fave running stores  . If you’ve never been, you need to visit the next time you are in the state Capital. I only trust the sales help there to fit my four children. We shop twice a year to purchase running shoes and this time I will buy a new pair of Adidas Super Nova Classic’s. We are supposed to switch out running shoes every 300 miles, and I am past due. And I am so excited because I just found out that Adidas has updated the color to orange from its traditional blue, which I have been wearing for the past 10 years.

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In an effort to reclaim my two oldest son’s from my husband this summer, I joined them on the golf course - a sport in which they have become obsessed with the past year. If they are not golfing, they are reading Golf Digest or books from the experts (Hogan, Penick) or watching The Golf Channel or researching swings on YouTube. My husband secured us the first tee time on July 4 (the pro shop is on speed dial) and as I lined up for my first drive I was pleased we would not have to wait on anyone. But as I ventured down the fairway, my enthusiasm waned as the swarms of mosquitoes hungry from a night of human host inactivity attacked. When I reached a par 3 and pulled it into the rough along a soupy area waterlogged from two months of rains in Texas, I looked down as I set up my pitching wedge, and I kid you not, there were no less than 75 mosquitoes. It was extremely unnerving and from that point on, I could care less about my score. I was only interested in survival. Fortunately, my son had listened to me and was carrying around the bottle of Coppertone Bug & Sun in their bag I had purchased for them months ago. Without it, the 25 or so bites I now harbor would have been much worse. Oh, they still swarmed but they did not bite. And I like the fact that it is a 2-for-1 product. Anything that saves time, is tops on my list. With DEET at only 10 percent, it won’t be the best protectant (I prefer 28 percent) but smells much better. Available at local drugstores and for about $10.

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