Kickball: MizFit style.
I dont trust that smile!!
New school years upon us.
One FULL MONTH IS DONE!
Our mornings? STILL CRAZY.
Still JAM-PACKED with fun.
We rise at the crack.
We’ve much PLAYout time!
Take TRAMPOLINE time!
Hence the nickname TORNADO.
We play bus stop BADMINTON.
Shoot a marshmallow gun.
These PLAYouts are fine–
but we needed *more* fun.
Hopscotch didnt do it.
Frisbee far too tame.
Our bus stop DEMANDED
more fierce of a game!
‘Scotchy memories…
It hit me one morning.
Like a ball-in-the-head.
We should play the game
Which in P.E. Id DREAD!!
Kickball was perfect!
(with our own colored ball)
We’d play it like BASEBALL
Use same rules and all!
We. Fancy.
That very morning
We announced to our ‘stop:
KICKBALL IS HERE
TILL OUR BALL DOES POP!
We played & we kicked.
We laughed and we ran.
We tagged & we dodged.
Smacked a poor neighbor man!!
Ahhhh Texas.
My workout was DONE
By the time the bus came!
We could all barely wait
To play KICK BALL again.
DiZclaimer: Lately Ive been all about the active play as exercise for myriad reasons. I love how time flies. I adore I get extra core work in because we’re laughing so hard. If youre not me and long to know the specific benefits of playing kickball they’re improved agility, cardiovascular workout, lower body muscular exercise & STRESS RELIEF.
More than anything, however, I urge you to be me on just this one occasion: forget the rules. forget that it’s exercise. just get out there, grab some friends and GET TO KICKING!!
Tags: kickball as PLAYout, my bus stop thinks Im nuts, SKULLball
I love your family.
What time do you get up in the morning??
We barely make the bus most days.
It is great to see how much enjoy your family time.
I’m coming to your house! Looks like way too much fun!!
Oh and cute rhyme.
I love all of this! But I especially love how balance and family is also how you take care of your health! You are living a beautiful life!!
I’d love tips on getting my boys up in the morning LOL
When is the Tornado up?
When do you write?
I love reading your posts first thing in the morning (or at the crack
). Always leaves me smiling!
Oh dear Miz, your Tornado is growing up as such a happy child. She will remember this for the rest of her life. How cool her Mom is and that she learned her that part of growing up is having fun. I hope you never lose your inner child because I love her, like I love you.
i was JUST thinking about the skipit the other day. freakin loved that thing!
I love this post, Carla!!!!!
Where can I buy a skip-it?
Brillz! I remember playing in the street in front of my house as a kiddo… One of the best games of all time
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My workout starts in an hour but ill wish I was playing kickball instead!!!
Sounds like so much fun! I need to look up how to play kick ball with the kids.
I remember dreading dodgeball in PE but don’t remember kickball.
LOVE kickball! And something tells me that with that ball, it would be that much more fun!
My daughter has same skirt as the Tornado.
Awww I almost signed up for an adult kickball league with my bf this year until we found out his ex was going to be on the opposing team and I figured it wouldn’t be a good idea to have me in an environment where it would be socially acceptable for me to throw balls at her face
OK THAT MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD!!! Thank you
Wanna know something? I have NEVER played dogeball. But I think I could with a 6yo and a beach ball haha
so fun! i want to come hang at the bus stop!
Kickball rocks! I am sad our yard badminton tourney will have to end soon due to weather. Wow it was fun out there!
Need a third person to play? hehe, i’ll bring over my beach ball.
Love the playouts. Love you.
Ooh, I must come down there for a visit! I love kickball!
It’s official. You should be a rapper.
OMG. I love you and your girl.
LOL. When I think about kickball I think about the HOURS we spent writing an official rule book to try to limit the on-the-field squablling.
Love the hop scotch..great for foot speed training
You have such a beautiful life. Inspired.
Skip Its rule.
This is awesome! It reminded me of how we used to have kickball tournaments in our neighborhood…and it was all the kids AND our parents. We loved it…like you said, so much fun–time would fly by!
Maybe my TRX studio will let us play a round of kickball tonight instead!
I LOVED kickball growing up…what great memories you are making for Tornado! 
You two make me smile! So FUn.
Much better than what we did as kids at the bus stop. Grump, whine, complain, throw sh*t at each other ….
Us too!
This sounds like so much fun
I look forward to the days!
now I wanna organize an inter-bus stop league!:-)
I love the pics but I so love that ball! You are so much fun – all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I break the rules in the gym!
I love your rhymes. I love your style of parenting. I love how accepting and loving you are. I. LOVE. YOU.
I was recenlty reading a post on zen habits about the woes of setting goals. It’s all about appreciating where you are at. For many people waiting for the bus can be torture, I love that you’ve come up with a way to play, but mostly to just appreciate a moment that very often gets treated as a waste of time. So here is a haiku in your honor.
Living each full day,
Joyus kickball is the way,
Endless time to play.
Gentoku
dharmatrainer.blogspot.com
Our mornings are still crazy too! Go figure. I wonder if playing “chase the chickens” works like the kickball…
I love the simplicity in playing with my kids. Why did things seem so complicated when we were young?
Your bus stop sounds like it’s the coolest…love kickball but definitely brings back lots of memories of gym class!!!!
Where I grew up it was called soccer baseball and it was the only kind of ‘baseball’ I didn’t absolutely dread in PE. Actually, I dreaded most everything in PE class because I’m such a klutz. But I think if you brought your fancy ball and your energy to my bus stop I might have reconsidered how I felt
I use to love playing kickball as a kid!! Seriously, I wish that I had a bus stop as cool as yours!
This is AWESOME!
Active play = the BEST kind of exercise in my book. It’s so good and healthy to break out of the mold of believing that exercise has to be done in a gym or must equal pain in order to see gain. Love this post!!!
This is awesome.
So fun! And I love the rhymes!
I love how you got the whole ‘stop in on it!
you guys are so totally awesome. I love that you get up early and get the little one up early with you to have some fun while being active every morning. More mothers need to take lessons from you in this department! Make exercise fun and they will WANT to live a healthy lifestyle.
you rawwwwk
xo
That all looks so much fun!
Your neighborhood must love you.
I wanna come play!!
I think I want to come play at your house! You just prove to the rest of us how much fun and play can be tossed in with our life on any given day. Thanks for that!
Kickball, I am up for a game of kickball. I could kick a mean ball back in the day. Keep kicking, don’t stop!
It’s okay for your bus stop to think you are nuts — you are fit! And you are a great mom!
I wish I had your energy in the morning! Instead, we are trying to be more active after school…
I love you
I love your child
I love your poetry
I love your sense of humor
I am moving in.
Knock knock
Love this!!!! What a blast!!! Best exercise ever!
Kids games require more energy than we can imagine. I remember the good time when I played those games all day long:)
Umm… I’m gonna have to google kickball! (Don’t know what it is. Soccer?)
Will go and find out!
I LOVE kickball. LOVE. I hated it in school. I was always picked last. Now, though? I pretty much kick ass at it.
Love it! Playing is how we should be doing our physical activity. It’s more accessible when you have kids I think, because they are always wanting to play and run around with you. Makes me more excited to have children, one day! We do have adult kickball leagues though….hehehe
You are my intake , I have few blogs and quite sporadically run out from to post : (.
What a Fabulous way to start the day, fun and fitness. Where is that Bus Stop?