Riley and Matthew participated in Glen Allen’s Babe Ruth 11/12 U Major’s baseball program this year. This was one of those years that they could both be on the same team so I took advantage of it (so I was… Read More ›
Baseball
Weekend activities
Saturday was a (relatively) calm day. The girls had a sleepover Friday night and so they weren’t home. The boys and I got up and got dressed for a Scrimmage game. I sat in the car drinking my coffee for… Read More ›
Pitching
Riley hasn’t had a chance to pitch with this new team. The same 3 kids pitched the first two weekends but for the last couple weeks he has been coming home and saying that he was pitching the next tournament. … Read More ›
Baseball Lessons
I haven’t had a lot of time to blog about baseball but we certainly have been involved with alot of it! I will review some of the lessons we have learned this year – sorted by child. After a year… Read More ›
End of Spring Break…
Life has definitely gotten in the way of blogging (not that I was much of a blogger anyway- hah!) We left last Thursday evening to go up North to visit my family. I haven’t seen some of my brothers and… Read More ›
Weekend musings…
After working yesterday I grabbed a few things at Dollar Tree and headed home. When I got there, the kids were in rare form. Addison had been sneaking behind the babysitter’s back to stick her fingers into the brownies I… Read More ›
It’s official…I have a crush on this coach!
Today was the first game of Fall Baseball. Both Matthew and Riley were excited to be playing. Matthew was totally “on” during the practice. Yesterday someone had taken his helmet and we got a different one. So I handed it… Read More ›
After the week I had, I needed someone to restore my faith in the kindness of people…
The first week of school is over! All of the kids not only survived but seemed to enjoy it. The only problem is that I was assigned to the busiest in-patient service that I do. Three out of 5 days… Read More ›
District 3 – 8U Rookie League Champions!
Riley’s All Star local tournament was this weekend. Despite having lost all 4 of their scrimmage games, they boys took advantage of a good draw and two out of 3 games where the opponents were playing their 2nd game of the… Read More ›
The All Star
This All Star stuff is pretty intense! Not sure that Riley feels it, but boy -oh – boy am I anxious for him. He takes things to heart so much and he’s let me know that he is nervous and… Read More ›
4 Kids + 1 Momma = Chaos 