Sports?

Rachel brought up kids' soccer in her blog and I posted in response that we didn't go the organized sports route.

It also made me remember that:

We first purchased the Star Wars movies for the boys when they were pretty little (now I realize just how little they truly were.) They fast turned anything into light sabers and began dueling. Steve would bring home the used computer paper from his job and they would roll piece after piece of it together until they had a long form and then surround it with enough tape to ensure that they could get a full days' use of it.

Eventually we were able to begin purchasing various quality toy lightsabers until the collection required a couple of large rubber maid tubs to hold them all when they weren't being used.

We didn't have the Boy Scouts in our neighborhood ... all the local kids would come to the door and ask if the boys could come out with all the lightsabers we own and they eventually formed their own "Jedi Training Club" with rigorous rules for what you had to be able to do for rank advancement.

The coolest part (to me) was that Matthew somehow ended up the leader of 'the gang' and all these kids would follow him all over the neighborhood. They haven't all gathered like this for a year or so, but at the time some of the local moms trusted the boys with their younger kids and there was an older boy who was training in swords who also hung out with them. So it was this huge swarm of kids from 3 or 4 years old up to the 18/19 year old.

One of the more awesome memories of my boys' childhoods as I watch them quickly becoming men. (insert big mom sigh)