Help & Encouragement for Busy Moms
Rebekah’s team, the BatGirls, started our first game day of the season with a bang– winning 13 to 1! It is going to be a great season for Rebekah; she has wonderful coaches and teammates and she loves the game. Miriam moved up to a new division this season. She now plays kid pitch and runners can steal bases. It is a whole new world. Hopefully as the girls practice this season
Spring sports season has begun, which means Saturdays and three nights a week at the ball fields. We are adjusting well to Rob’s switch to 2nd shift. The trade-off of 3 days off each week has been worth the change but, of course, our practice nights fell on the three nights a week Rob never has off. So I am on my own for all the kids’ practices. It means
What could pass time better than snacking during endless sibling sports games? Oh, that’s right…playing with your food, then eating it! Emily probably ate more dirt than pretzels due to tipping her bowl again and again. But, right now, if it makes her happy and it won’t kill her I’m apt to let it go. Bek summed up the girls’ softball game pretty well in her prayer, “Thank you for being
The first time I saw Rebekah’s coach suiting her up in this catcher gear, I immediately thought “This is not going to go well!” She feigns exhaustion after merely attempting to lift her bag of softball gear to her shoulder, then dramatically grunts, sighs, and strains as she drags it across the ground instead of carrying it. I expected to see frustration at not being able to move easily in all that gear. She is such a
It’s pretty fitting that Emily took her first steps today at the ball fields; during ball season the fields are our home away from home. Today alone we spent 8 hours there! My parents surprised the children this morning by coming from out-of-state to watch softball and Emily took her first shuffle steps while playing with Grandma.Each week I am thrilled for Rebekah when I watch her play. She is becoming a really great softball player, her biggest asset
This year for softball we placed Rebekah up an age group so that the older girls could be on the same team. We needed to condense some of our sports commitments and this was the only way to have fewer games and practices while still allowing the older three kids to play a sport. I worried about that decision. Not only would she be at least a year younger than much of her
Saturday’s softball game was exciting this week. Sometimes, I almost forget that we are yelling for little girls when the game gets close! The team worked very hard and played well, so it was disappointing when the game ended in a tie. Miriam got to play first base for the whole game. The ball was hit her direction multiple times during the game. She was able to tag one runner out at
Miriam and Rebekah are really enjoying playing softball on the same team this season. During last week’s game Rebekah was thrilled to get her first base hit! She practically jumped and skipped her way to first base after connecting with that ball. She almost missed the next play because she was still celebrating when the ball was hit. In the course of the game she hit the ball at all
