Thursday morning, before school, my family had an interesting conversation at breakfast. My son tells me that he wants to be a champion boomerang thrower. Is there such a thing? Well, if there is a trophy for throwing something, I guess he’s practised enough since birth. What does it take to be the champion? You throw it, and it does what it’s designed to do, come back to you, what skill does that take?Welcome to my family. Thursday was the third morning of the new school year, and we are still organized so far. Third morning, and I still am doing a ‘full’ breakfast, with two kids actually sitting at a table, using silverware, and talking, about boomerangs. With school started, I spend my evening after supper, making sure everyone has school clothes laid out and only need jump to up and into them tomorrow morning. Now, I am looking up “boomerang, throwing, and boomerang competition.Every mother wants to the be the encouraging type, but why doesn’t Andy want to be a champion tennis player? Little league I could get into, we go to games, and just about EVERY mother, and father even, are there. Get togethers that we haven’t had to put any effort into, and a social life that will build relationships for all of us. But who goes to Boomerang games? Are there games? Will there be other mothers, sitting on bleachers, trying to converse while struggling to keep little ones from wandering into the “boomerang dugout”.Boomerang, “flying, curved tool used as a weapon or for sport”. So, it’s a sport, but it’s a weapon too, scary. By the time I am through reading about boomerangs, I have found out there are competitions, and it can be a team sport. I still wonder where Andy got such a dream. Amanda, sleeping peacefully, is carried off to bed, and I, too, go off capture my night of sleep.Saturday, I take the family to the park, with, you guessed it, a brand new boomerang. We spend the morning practising throwing the special sporting equipment, and I must say, the greatest thing about boomerang throwing is, no other equipment needed. From I managed to find out, as we read more about the sport of boomerang throwing, the championship part may be in the catching, more than the throwing. One handed and two handed catches, catches under the leg, and catches behind your back. Wait until the boomerang gets near the ground, and kick it up to catch it. Trick catches is what is going to make Andy the Boomerang Champion. Watching him today, it may a few years before that trophy adorns the living room mantle.