Monthly Archives : January 2018

Dos and Don’ts for Keeping Your Cheer Shoes Clean


Follow these instructions to keep your cheer shoes neat and clean:

Cheer shoe bags have a compartment that shoes can travel in so use them. This will keep your shoes from getting grimy (and, the other way around, keep your training wear and other cheer things neat). A different shoe compartment implies your shoes will not retain conceivable smells or sweat that may have come from worn uniforms used for practice.

Only wear your cheer shoes at training and at exhibitions. This implies you should not wear your shoes directly after or before practice time or wearing them on your way to the exercise center. Put on regular shoes or sandals before the exercise time and then change into the cheer shoes when it is time. Indeed, even shoes used outdoor are not made to deal with harsh surfaces like rock or asphalt. If you limit the period of time you wear your shoes, they will last longer.

If your shoes get grimy, clean them off instantly. If you clean them with a damp cloth and it does not work, add a little soap to it.

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After Reading these 5 Ways to Help a Teammate, would you do them?


Some portion of being a decent sportsperson—and not only a decent competitor—is being a decent teammate. That is likely simple for you most of the time; however, it is coming through for your partner when they are down and need help is what solves the equation. Here are five approaches to help a teammate in troublesome circumstances:

  1. Resist aggressiveness. In case you are accustomed to being the star, it can be intense if another teammate eclipses you. Propelling yourselves and each other to be the best is healthy but when you start hating on each other and hoping to see each other fail, it becomes a problem. Such things are never wanted on a decent cheerleading group. In the event that you feel hurt or baffled when you are not given a spot you needed, let that mistake push you to work harder. Try not to give it a chance to influence your connection to the team. Remind yourself you need what is best for the team and your partners. Concentrate on keeping everyone including your teammates happy.
  2. Always cheer them. The most effortless approach to oppose unnecessary sentiments is to work for the success of your team. Empower and bolster them!
  3. Stay with them. You are not a specialist or an advisor or a professional in each school subject, however, you can simply be there so you can help them go through their issues. Obviously, if you have the capacity to assist her, do it, however, in some cases simply being there with her favorite food is all she might just need.
  4. Do not be shy to ask for assistance. If you have a teammate suffering from drug or alcohol abuse, eating disorders or any other harmful problems, you are not equipped to deal with such affairs. However, comforting her and helping her find the right person to deal with it will be great. If she requires a therapist, a doctor, psychiatrist, councilor or teacher to handle the issue, let them do it. Try not to push her away or get her more depressed. If you feel she could take her life, tell someone. It is better to have a friend that is angry over one that is seriously hurt.
  5. Set the tone. Your companions and partners deserve the best, is that not so? Consider what you need in a decent partner and imitate that. Be fun, empowering, and dedicated, yet in addition be genuine and inform your partners when you are having an intense time with something. Your teammates could end up becoming best friends because of your efforts.
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How To Decorate School Banners Without Losing Practice Time


As far as I can tell, custom softball banners and posters for use around the campus or in locker rooms takes a lot of practice– to say the least! Generally, for all cheerleaders, practice is essential and time is constrained. Here are a few hints to help you organize your practice time, and still be able to make posters without both of them interfering with your other plans.

  1. Make them completely during the summer. This year, we are planning on dedicating one hour every Wednesday to unplug all banners and posters used for the previous school year. In the event that we do not complete them on Wednesday, no stress– we do not have a due date! We keep doing it until the end of the summer. By the educational season, we would have done enough so we will have a variety to choose from on game days. When we use them up, we will still have time to make some more, however, we do not need to worry about making such a large number since we spent the summer making tons of them!
  2. Pick a night to make the banners if your day is too occupied with plans. Set the ideal opportunity for a few hours slot where volunteers from your cheer team can come to help. Odds are, you will get a decent number considering there is no working out or exercise required. It will be like having a paint night with your best friends! It will also be ideal to have music playing in the background to spice up things
  3. Try to create an after practice banner making team. In the event that the condition of summer is not ideal for you, offer to pay some girls from your cheer team if they stay back after practice and make the banners and posters with you. Target those girls that are always picked up late. Prepare a schedule and a target you want them to meet daily so they can be focused.
  4. All the work and time you invested in setting up your booster team should pay off now, right? Set them to work! They will want to assist. Give them a few thoughts (from any social media maybe) to work on, and I am certain you’ll have some fun, inventive banners and posters subsequently.
  5. Offer them to the young ladies (or young men). You do not have a sponsor group or better still, you do not like the idea of staying back after practice and the team does not too… never fear! Give the young women the apparatus! Have some decorative (and mindful) pioneers bring homemade publications, brushes, and whatever else their imaginative souls require. Have them take a shot at a couple of banners while they at home, and ensure they return them in back one piece!
  6. Reach out to the Student Council. Perhaps, you are not even into the entire decorating thing… that is not a problem! Give the obligation to the Student Council (in the wake of soliciting them, of course). Our Student Council makes a huge amount of signs to stick around the school. Reach out to them and see if they can help you with the work.

At this point, you most likely have a decent bearing and ideas of the kind of baseball banner you want to make. Get imaginative, make it interesting, and do not be stressed out! Keep in mind: doing this will make both the basketball and football teams happy. I know our young men are so appreciative to see a huge banner when they stroll into the locker rooms! Try to put a smile on their faces!

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Freeze Frame Friday


As I sit back and drink some homemade lemonade with Sonic ice (duh), I can’t help but think back on some things I’ve been really grateful for lately. These are moments I don’t want to forget from the past few weeks.
Our little boy is basically a teenager now. Tomorrow I’ll be 35 weeks along! Just when I think things are gettin’ real, then I realize things are gettin’ real. And then it’ll probably just get more real in every season with him. It has been an honor to house our sweet Eddy for these past eight months. I don’t want to forget the kicks and little rib jabs or when PK reads to him and asks him about what he thinks about the economic state of foreign countries. You think I’m making that up, but I’m not. It’s hilarious. All I’ve been reading to him lately are Top 10 Buzzfeed lists. (bahaha!) All this to say, it’s a miracle, like a serious miracle that this baby is growing and thriving and wiggling and I thank God every day that we get to experience this and be Eddy’s parents.

Just when I think I can’t get enough of this man, he goes and gets me Sonic. In a V-neck. Have mercy. This season with PK has been sweet as we prepare to be parents. There’s been a lot of relaxing, and Friday Night Lights, and yummy dinners at home, and coffee dates, and PK helping me off the couch, and rubbing my feet that literally look like blown up rubber gloves. (It ain’t no joke people, it looks like I can pop these things) I’m grateful for my husband, and his kindness to me, and his listening ear, and how he can make me laugh in the midst of my hilarious pregnancy woes. Let’s never stop laughing and enjoying the little things PK, and let’s never forget this season we’ve had together. I love you.

We took a trip to our friend Sara’s parents’ house and it was glorioooooous!  Sometimes I don’t realize I need to get away until I get away. It’s a little oasis every time we go there. It was so fun to hang out with our sweet friends from here in Chicago. We got to wake up slow, boat all day long one day, lounge around, have good conversation, eat good food, and the list could go on. Sara’s parents are the best, and ask us good questions, and really want to know us, and it makes me feel so loved. Thank you Daryl and Gretchen from the bottom of all our hearts for having us over and loving us the way you do!
What are some sweet moments you’ve had these past couple of weeks? You know, the ones you want to store in a little box and never forget? Write ’em down, journal them, blog about them, keep ’em archived somewhere so you can go back and be reminded of the things that make the heart full.
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