It’s a fun and exciting time in the sports world!
Looking forward to:
🔷The Winter Olympics!!! I love the Olympics. I love everyone in the world coming together and caring about the same thing at the same time and cheering people on. I love that theme song. I love watching the actual sports. I love the athlete interviews and deep dive bios. I love seeing the tears in the athlete’s eyes when they achieve their lifelong dream. I love the stories of grit and determination. I love seeing the video footage of whatever cool place the Olympics are being held. I love there always being something exciting and interesting to watch on TV for 2 weeks!
Opening ceremony is Friday, February 6th! In Milan/Cortina, for anyone not paying attention. 😉
🔷The Superbowl. Sunday February 8th. I can’t say I have any skin in the game with these particular teams (Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots, also for anyone not paying attention), but we always watch the Superbowl! It’s just fun.
Speaking of people not paying attention, I laughed out LOUD this past Sunday while texting with Sarah (SHU). She was telling me what they were up to and she wrote, “josh is watching a game of some kind.” I was like, “a game of some kind”? It’s the AFC Championship to determine which team goes to the Superbowl! 😅😅 lol. (I totally know that not all people care about or watch football games. It just still made me giggle. hehe!)
🔷 The World Cup! Coming up in June 2026. I am not normally a huge soccer viewer (besides Ethan’s games), but I do love the World Cup and watching the progression through the rounds. Iván is a VERY HUGE soccer viewer at all times, so this is basically his favorite thing ever. Ethan is very excited to follow it, too.
Also, bonus, it’s being hosted in North America this year (jointly between U.S./Canada/Mexico)! We have actually entered the draw for tickets for the U.S. vs Australia game in Seattle on June 19. Our names are in the hat for I believe two 4-packs of tickets. There are some games being played closer to us (sort of, still an 8 hour drive away)- in Kansas City. But none of the U.S. team games are being played there, and Ethan specifically wants to watch the U.S. play.
(In Ethan’s perfect world, he wants to not only win tickets for us, but also to bring his 2 best friends, in honor of his 18th birthday this summer.) I guess I’m not sure what will happen if we do win but only 4 tickets- I have a feeling I would not be getting one of those. 😉 I also have a feeling that the hotel prices will jack up to approximately $5,000/ night, so, there’s that… 😆
(Iván does not seem optimistic that we’ll score tickets, especially for this big and high-profile game, anyway, but who knows. I think we’ll find out relatively soon?)
🔷 Farther in the distance, but still coming onto the radar: The L.A. 2028 Summer Olympics. I recently entered the lottery for those tickets, too. I have no idea how/if that would even fit into our (currently nonexistent) 2028 plans, but at this point, there is zero commitment. Besides, you first have to even win a time slot to try and buy tickets during one of the ticket drops. Would be cool to say I went to the Olympics at least once in my life, and on home soil!
Has anyone else entered any of the lotteries? If not, don’t, so our chances will be higher. 😜
Daily Gratitude:
I am grateful for this little plaid bandanna that the groomer gave Charlie the other day. He looks so innocent and cute. haha. (In a few days, his SUPER TIGHT CURLS will grow back, but for the moment, he’s a fluff ball.)
GRATEFUL KAE 
My husband and two of my son’s are HUGE soccer fans. There are world cup games being played in our area and I know my husband has entered the lottery for tickets. I don’t know any of the other details.
A friend whose husband is a broadcaster in the soccer world joked that she was planning to travel with him, but didn’t expect to be able to actually attend any of the games. Tickets are scarce!
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I absolutely love the Summer Olympics but I have a harder time getting into the Winter Olympics–I think the sports are just not as interesting to me. In the summer I really love track and field, swimming, and gymnastics. I kind of wish I was more into the winter ones, though, because they come at a time of year where staying inside and watching TV is much more appealing than in the summer!
Re: the Super Bowl, the last few years we have hosted a Super Bowl party for my big family and my daughter gets super into it, planning the menu and going shopping with my husband to get all the food and then setting everything up. HOWEVER, we have a bit of a problem this year, which is that my husband, who’s originally from Boston and is a HUGE Patriots fan, prefers to watch “big games” that his team is in on his own (or at least just with the four of us) and not really talking haha. He gets super intense about it and does not want commotion/other people around! And this preference is exacerbated by the fact that he lives in the Midwest, not the Boston area anymore, so none of the people around him are Patriots fans. So he is undecided about whether he is okay with us hosting a Super Bowl get-together this year. I am deferring to him on this decision….but I do find it funny how he likes to watch big games alone because I am not sure many other fans are like that!
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Love all these fun events to look forward to ahead! I’m in Seattle at that time, and recommend booking a refundable hotel now. Prices are already high (a friend paid $800+/night for the Holiday Inn downtown) and will skyrocket once tickets are confirmed.
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Ditto, ditto, ditto! LOVE the Olympics (both summer and winter) and am excited that North America has the World Cup this year! I’ll add March Madness to your list since we like making brackets and competing against each other as a family (though none of us know the teams that well). The college football national championship means more to me than the Super Bowl (unless the Packers are in it), but I love the comradery around the Super Bowl! This year we’ll be out of the country for it though, so I’ll miss it.
Can’t wait to hear if yall get tickets to the World Cup game or not- how cool would that be?!
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Oh, I hope you get tickets for everything! We got tickets for one event at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and took the whole family. It wasn’t even an event any of us were particularly into — but we had a blast and it is so fun every time the Olympics comes around again for us all to know we were at one!
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