Summer of Baseball

Every summer I think to myself, "I'm going to do ______ with the kids". Fill in the blank with picnics, reading books outside on a blanket, making tye-dye tshirts to just having fun. This summer we did none of those things. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Why you ask? Because we played all-star baseball.

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE watching my boys play ball, but this year it consumed our lives. Everyday I was washing uniforms and loading everyone up to go back to the ballfield. We got home late most nights, ate cereal or pizza for dinner and got in bed only to get up and do it all over the next day. So, no fun creative stuff happened this summer. Just the pool, playing the wii, baseball, neighbor friends playing in the garage, more wii, more baseball and more pool. I joked with friends that we were so busy that I merely kept three kids alive this summer, but in all honesty I had one happy little boy. I guess that made this summer a success after all.