The End-

Baseball is over. It was a bittersweet ending for me. Usually I cannot wait for the last day of the season but this year was different. I'm not sure why since we had so many problems as a whole (Board Of Directors bullshite). It could possibly be due to the fact that both kids played well, had great coaches, Turtle didn't need me hovering to make sure he was alright when Crash was playing, good friends..Who knows. All I know is that I miss it already.

In missing it I realized something of importance: WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MYSELF THIS SATURDAY?!?!?!?!? I mean, seriously, I have spent every Saturday living, breathing and eating baseball since April! No boys, No baseball...What is a girl to do?? I'm scared.

PS-Did I mention All Star practice starts tonight??

What I love on a Saturday..

1. Spending all day (albeit rainy) at the ball field watching the boys play.

2. Crash as Starting Pitcher and doing pretty good too. He's never seriously pitched before now but he did okay.

3. Watching 3 little boys play wall ball, giggling and doing boyishly goofy dance moves when they think no one is looking

4. Watching Crash crank the ball to the fence and slide and flip into 2nd base and making it barely in the nick of time.

5. Coming home after a day of ball and curling up with Crash to catch up on some tv.

6. Watching John Cusack in 'The Ice Harvest' with a sleeping Crash beside me and Turtle and his best friend giggling in the other room.

I love Saturdays with my boys.

7. Knowing that my kids may not be perfect but they are good kids and will turn out just fine. They've got me to make sure of that.

Baseball is in the air and I can't stop breathing it in-

Our Little League season starts on Saturday with our annual Opening Day Parade followed by an entire day of beloved baseball. My other child, Princess, is playing tball this year, Turtle has been moved up to Minor-Majors (Kid Pitch) and Brain is playing in the Majors.

I can't wait to:

-Smell the fresh cut grass of our Major Field

-Watch my boys in their 4th and 8th Opening Day Ceremony. It's amazing how grown up they seem now in their uniforms.

-Watch the t-ballers in their first Opening Day Parade.

-Open the fresh new scorebook and start keeping score for a new season. (I liken it to starting a new journal.)

-Set up my camp chair beside the dugout, like always, and root for my teams.

-The sun to warm my body and start my tan for the year.

-Buy a large amount of sunflower seeds and start eating them as I do during baseball. I have found this is the best way for me to keep out of trouble with my mouth at the field.

-Watch my cautious Brain turn into a total maniac on the field. It doesn't matter how big the opponent is when they're sliding into home plate and he's catching he becomes this fierce fearless man child.

-Watch my Turtle change from silly smiling boy he is into the "serious" ball player.