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Personal Narrative: Reffing In Our Life
This morning I received my pop up from timehop showing me the posts for this day over the years. Three years ago today I was going to watching Kurt referee his very first high school basketball game. I was so excited and so proud of him. I had no clue three years ago how much reffing would become a part of our life.

Reffing is life in our household.

Honestly, reffing takes up about 9 months of our life. From November-March is basketball season. May-July are camps where he is away on the weekends. October is when he has all the clinics and scrimmages. Basically he is off April, August and September. Not to mention, he is working full-time in his day time job.

Reffing is fun, exciting, hard and down right lonely.

My husband is gone on

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