Greetings everyone!
Well, after an evening/night of some serious raging downpours, when I awoke this morning, there was sunshine and beautiful lavendar blooms on my lilac bush with little prismatic droplets of rain reflecting the sunlight dotted throughout the blooms outside my kitchen window. Insta-smile!!
I spent the better part of 2 hours yesterday at the softball field in these downpours watching my youngest daughter's varsity softball team shut-out yet ANOTHER opponent (one of the teams they were in a 3-way tie for first with). They called the game in the 6th inning, as the field was beginning to resemble a swamp and the ump was in fear that someone would get hurt. I do have to mention--as a PROUD mommy...my daughter made an EPIC play at home (she is the catcher), lost pitch off her glove, on her knees, face to the backstop, backward toss to the pitcher and OUT at home!!
They play their last two regular-season games here at home this evening and tomorrow evening, and rain or shine....you KNOW where my butt will be!! They are 11-1 going into these last two games and we all are hopeful that this winning streak will last..it has been a long-time coming for our little hometown school and how great it is to see these young faces displaying "victory." They have a VERY solid team...big hitters, agile fielders, and watching them is like watching a well-calibrated machine...TEAMWORK!! So..GO LADY BOBCATS!! YOU ALL INSPIRE ME!! They have much to be proud of...and their coach...is a WONDERFUL person...new this year to the varsity coaching level and had a large part to do with turning over this bunch of kids to the level they are now playing at (as he has coached most all of them up to this point) and there is a bond and a trust that has developed between them. He treats them to fresh fruit every home game and Tim-Bits...and purchases enough Gatorade to fill the water cooler along with ice...he takes care of his brood...my daughter actually says "He spoils us." But I believe that what each one of these girls gives him back is way more than he could ever expend. So I believe that this "spoiling" goes both ways!!
There is NOTHING like the pride we feel when we see young people put their ALL into something not for ANYONE else but THEMSELVES and the TEAM they have voluntarily become a part of...each carries their own load (and then some) and it profits EVERYONE. I smile to myself thinking that these kids have no idea how GIFTED we adults feel in JUST THAT. This is one of those gifts they will find out for themselves when they themselves step into the role of nurturing the younger generation. They THINK they get the best of it because they are the active participants...however, from where we sit, the view is most clear and most beautiful and it really has NOTHING at all to do with US...it is ALL about them!!
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing (bystanding) upon the shoulders of giants."~Sir Isaac Newton.
I will sign today..."Mama-G"
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