Well it’s official, I am a football mom.\u00a0 Football mom, as in having to drop off and pick up our son almost every night at football practice.\u00a0 Volunteer to work at the snack shack on game day.\u00a0 Wash his practice and game uniform every night.\u00a0 Not have a life of my own for the next 2 months.\u00a0 And also, going to beg for money.\u00a0 I wasn’t really pleased about it, I’ve never had to stand outside a store and ask for donations.\u00a0 I’m not what you would call a “team player”.\u00a0 But I was not going to pay $50 each time to get out of it.\u00a0 So, much to my dismay, we had to go “tagging”.\u00a0 Which if you don’t know is another word for begging for money.\u00a0 Although, I didn’t have to do the begging, my son did.\u00a0 But before it was time he asked me,
\n“Mom, when do we have to go ring the bell?”
\n“Huh?\u00a0 What do you mean ring the bell?”\u00a0 And then it dawns on me, begging for money, ring a bell, oh crap, he thinks we are the Salvation Army!\u00a0 Of course, why didn’t I think of that!\u00a0 To an 8 year old, that’s begging for money.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I explained the difference between “tagging”, and the Salvation Army asking<\/em> for donations.\u00a0 And how donations help organizations, etc……..Besides, the Salvation Army gets paid a little something, and we don’t.\u00a0 He did get a free slush puppy from the gas station we were at, so he was wicked excited about that! Well it’s official, I am a football mom.\u00a0 Football mom, as in having to drop off and pick up our son almost every night at football practice.\u00a0 Volunteer to work at the snack shack on game day.\u00a0 Wash his practice and game uniform every night.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ISGQ-1y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n~Stacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"