Meera + Golf = a big fat NON-CHECK!

With our own official end-of-summer looming large (Wednesday = boys back to school = our end of summer), we found ourselves frantic about one particular line-item on our Summer To Do List. “Teach Meera To Play Golf In Our Yard.” Despite all of our best efforts, and our exceptional level of enthusiasm (!), our Little Miss Meera shows no interest, whatsoever, in playing golf. Non. Zip. Absolutely nada.

When K & O were Meera’s age they were golfing like little pro’s. They’d already been hitting golf balls for a solid year and by the fall that they were age two, they were obsessed with golf. They’d spend hours in our yard golfing. Even in the dead of winter, in the snow and freezing cold, they were golfing (seriously!). And they were really, really good at it. It was astounding to anyone and everyone who witnessed it. When they first hit the driving range, at age just-about-three, they were already hitting 25-40 yards, and with accuracy.  It wasn’t long after they were the age that Meera is now that we had to establish the hard-and-fast rule that they are not, under any circumstances, allowed to hit golf balls toward our house (at age 2 they had already broken a window playing golf in our yard). Their swings were big, their hits were hard, and the balls were flying. Still all true today, just even more so.

Meera, however, is a bird of a different feather. Despite how often she watches her brothers hit golf balls in the yard (this is still a very regular favorite pastime of theirs), she wants nothing to do with the sport whatsoever. For Kyle and Owen this has been disconcerting, to say the least. They have tried to engage her in golfing. Braydon has attempted to coach her. I have clapped and screamed and jumped around like a maniac, just as I did for her brothers. But no, nothing. She’s simply not interested. Not interested at all.

Saturday night, the last Saturday of our Summer, in a last ditch effort to try to interest our girl in golfing, we headed to the driving range. We went into it hopeful. We left happy (having had a good time; it was a lot of fun), but also totally convinced that –at least for now– Meera has no inclination toward golf whatsoever. While she was very interested in trying to place golf balls on the tee (while K & O are all about gross motor skills, M is all about fine ones!), she was completely uninterested in actually trying to hit them off of it. Much more to her preference was sipping iced water, toodling around busily occupying herself with who-knows-what, and collecting rocks from the landscaping designs.

No matter. K & O must have hit 100 balls, loving every minute of it. Braydon just savors every second of playing Golf Coach to his sons. Mommy enjoys (enjoys! enjoys!) watching the whole scene unfold, snapping (photos), and sipping (cold $2 happy hour beer). And Meera? Well, she’s just 100% content to just be there. No actual golfing required. And so it goes that “Teach Meera To Play Golf In Our Yard” finally, in the 11th hour, got a big fat NON-CHECK! (X!) on our Summer To Do List.