Our family sports rule is one sport per year, per kid. We definitely want them to develop skills, try new things and have all of the advantages that come along with playing team sports, but we would also like to maintain some semblance of a family life as well so, for now, that rule is serving us well.

But when you choose baseball, which is a spring sport, one year and then basketball, which is a fall sport, the next year, it can kind of feel like forever before the time comes for those practices to begin. As of today the wait was over! And not only that, but they've got a team full of good friends and dad is the coach. They're pretty pumped (all three of them) and looking forward to a great season.

It's basketball time joy...