With our schedule, it is hard to make other commitments. It’s the time of year where our weekends are full of long days at a ballfield with early mornings and late nights. Time traveling, making new memories and watching our son do something that he is very passionate about currently.

I also know baseball is something he is growing to love even more with each practice, each game, each win and maybe, most importantly, each loss.

Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose, but I think his coach said it best with the statement, “You can’t really appreciate the win until you’ve really rumbled with the loss.” I mean how can we NOT all learn from this? With each game, he is learning who he is as a team player. With each game he is learning how the way he shows up matters more than leaving the game with the win.

The point of playing is the character that it is instilling in him. We just want to raise a good kid to be a good man. To raise a child who knows how to look a teammate or an opponent in the eye after a game, shake their hand and walk away a little more humble than he was the game before. That’s the goal.

My only hope is that baseball will have an impact on who he’s becoming as a young man and carry through to adulthood.

Is it hectic? Yes

Is it crazy at times? Yes

Do we make sacrifices for him? Yes

Do we love watching and supporting him? Yes

Would I trade it for anything in the world? ABSOULTELY NOT

I hope he can look back years from now and treasure these moments as much as we do. Good times or bad, win or lose you should always learn from your past, cherish your present and embrace your future. Your memories of the moments that shaped you are the building blocks of your beautiful story.

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Crystal

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