She decided to try out and made the team. At first she was thrilled, but as practices went on, she started complaining more and more. She felt like she really fell behind when she was recovering from her emergency appendectomy. Her core strength was not back to pre-surgery levels yet. It was keeping her from doing some of the tumbling as smoothly as she wanted.
One day we said, "Just quit. There's no need to keep going if it's going to make you miserable and cause so much stress."
Normally we'd tell her that she made the commitment and she needed to stick with it. There was something about the way she talked about the cheer leading team and coaches that made us rethink that policy.
We talked about how she should tell her coaches. The team only communicated by text, so we drafted a very nice text. She thanked them for the opportunity and told them she wanted to pursue another fall sport. I was very proud of the way she crafted her message.
After she hit send, the coach replied with "k." I was stunned, although it fit with our experience, so I shouldn't have been. The coach didn't write a text wishing Abby well. She didn't thank her for all her hard work or say the team would miss her. She simply texted the letter k.
I was relieved that the blond twin's cheer days were behind her. She quickly emailed the high school swim coach. She talked to girls on the team and was so excited to start practice. It was good to see her so excited about a team again.
