{"id":1117,"date":"2009-10-18T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/and-then-hell-froze-over.html"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:47:35","slug":"and-then-hell-froze-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/and-then-hell-froze-over.html","title":{"rendered":"And Then, Hell Froze Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/soccer%20monster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"soccer monster.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/soccer%20monster-thumb-442x647-8659.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"442\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><\/span>That&#8217;s Emilia in her new soccer uniform. Emilia is now playing soccer, which, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, makes me a soccer mom.<\/p>\n<p>No offense to soccer moms &#8211; some of my best friends are soccer moms &#8211; but I never thought that I&#8217;d actually be one. My kids, I always imagined, were going to be bookish, artsy types, reading Latin by the age of five and composing sonatas by nine. Soccer? I just never thought about soccer, except when I thought about soccer moms &#8211; latte-toting, yoga-pant-wearing, minivan-driving suburban alpha moms &#8211; and when I thought about soccer moms I always thought, <i>that? Will never be me<\/i>. If only because I a) intended to never wear yoga pants, and b) do not drive, never mind drive a minivan. Whether or not my children might want to play soccer never entered the equation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it seems, it has. And I&#8217;ve already got the yoga pants, so&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Guess I&#8217;d better learn how to drive.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Emilia in her new soccer uniform. Emilia is now playing soccer, which, if I&#8217;m not mistaken, makes me a soccer mom. No offense to soccer moms &#8211; some of my best friends are soccer moms &#8211; but I never thought that I&#8217;d actually be one. 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