{"id":61,"date":"2025-11-12T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/?p=61"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:13:13","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%be-mum-duty-chronicles-the-tennis-lesson-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfbe&nbsp;Mum Duty Chronicles: The Tennis Lesson Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">Me: professional driver, water-bottle refiller, and motivational coach (for one small tennis star).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Between packing snacks, finding missing rackets, and trying to remember if it\u2019s court 3 or court 4 this week \u2014 motherhood feels like a full-time logistics role with overtime in encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">But then I watch her walk out onto that court, ponytail bouncing, racket in hand, confidence growing, and I remember why I love this chaos. Every missed serve, every giggle between drills, every \u201cMum, did you see that one?\u201d makes it all worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Parenting isn\u2019t glamorous; it\u2019s sweaty, messy, and somehow still the most beautiful thing. Because in between the runs to tennis, the snack runs, and the life runs, we\u2019re teaching our kids to show up, try again, and laugh when it goes sideways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">So here\u2019s to all the mums out there running on caffeine and love, courtside, car-side, or anywhere in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1440\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1440;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/export-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: professional driver, water-bottle refiller, and motivational coach (for one small tennis star). Between packing snacks, finding missing rackets, and trying to remember if it\u2019s court 3 or court 4 this week \u2014 motherhood feels like a full-time logistics role with overtime in encouragement. But then I watch her walk out onto that court, ponytail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/?p=61\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\ud83c\udfbe&nbsp;Mum Duty Chronicles: The Tennis Lesson Edition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life","category-the-kids-corner"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6164-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_6164-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Helen","author_link":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/constantchaos.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}