Another season has come and gone..

As I washing all the uniforms for their last games this season I couldn't help but be a little sad. It's another end to another stage of my kids' lives. Another memory of being on a team and having so and so as a coach. I know I whined a little about how busy we were and I often wondered how I was going to get all of them where they needed to be. Sometimes I didn't get them where they needed to be, sometimes friends took them and sometimes they missed practiced or a game. At first I felt like a failure and that I was letting them down but I wasn't. They all assured me it was okay and they welcomed the break from chaos as much as I did.
One thing I was really worried about were dinners. With them needing to be at the fields by 5:30PM every night but an occasional Wednesday I thought there was no way I was going to pull off dinners every night for 6 weeks. No way could I do that, the girl that would rather order in or hit the drive thru than cook. Well, I did it. We never ate out, never hit the drive thru and not once did I give in and buy snack bar food. You bet your damn ass I am patting myself on the back while giving myself a high five, that is how accomplished and awesome I feel about that. I don't even care if my head is so big it could burst, I've never made it through a baseball season with at least a couple In-N-Out burgers. I know, it helps that we don't have them here but there's still fast food and I avoided it. Now we may have had cereal a night or two, some nights everyone had something different and left overs were my best friend, but no fast food.
The season started off cold and it seemed the teams would never work well together. We had a lot of strike outs, dropped balls and losses.

Now at the end of the season they are making catches, hitting triples and winning games.
The weather has warmed up and it's making me a little sad that it's over. I never really got to know any parents from G or T's teams but I'll miss the parents from Dub's team. They were passionate, at every game and fun to be around.

I loved the kids on Dub's and G's team. They were all so fun and respectful. A little hard on themselves but they always kept it light and fun, even when they were losing.

So here's to another baseball season that we will always remember. Our first baseball season we wore layers and used the umbrella for rain.