Triple Play!!!

Oh yes, what a difference one day can make. The other night my daughter was lamenting how difficult school has been and that she didn’t want to go to school yesterday morning. My wife had to go back to school yesterday afternoon with my daughter because she forgot one of her assignments. As it turns out my daughter didn’t forget her assignment she couldn’t find it in one of her folders and when they returned home my wife was able to retrieve the piece of paper. When they were at school my wife ran into my daughter’s teachers and they started talking of course about my daughter. It was no surprise our daughter was doing very well in all of the subjects and the teachers spoke very highly of her. She received a huge boost of confidence and as it stands now she is earning mostly A’s and B’s not the B’s and C’s my daughter had thought.

This was wonderful to hear but as I mentioned much as I suspected since my daughter is certainly her own worst critic and puts so much pressure on herself. I wish I could get through to her that she needs to start having fun since life moves so fast. I don’t care if she receives straight A’s; I care that she is doing her best and apparently her best is close to earning the straight A’s. I can’t erase those two years I was away as much as I want to all I can do is concentrate on today. I am a realist and know things will continually crop up about those two years especially with my family. I won’t run and hide and I certainly won’t revert back to my old ways. I am here to stay and I really like what I am seeing, doing and most of all I love being with my family. My daughter is an amazing young lady and I know she can do amazing things because I have seen those things. I do know everything will continue to work out for the very best.

Yes, the difference between yesterday and today could be seen in my daughter’s eyes when she returned home from school grinning from ear to ear. Her class has a president and a vice president and in all fairness these terms only last two weeks giving most students a turn. My daughter had low expectations about being elected either one of these positions since she was away from this school for the past two years and is essentially the new kid on the block. Well that all changed today as she was elected the class vice president and as it turns out the president was absent so my daughter assumed those duties. She was so proud of herself and couldn’t wait to go back to school.

Yes, this was the same girl who less than 24 hours ago didn’t want to go to school. I will take this change of events any day because her bright beautiful smile returned in earnest. Wow; how things can change so quickly and of course for the better. This was great and I continue to learn in recovery that patience is a virtue along with all good things does come not necessarily to those who wait but to those who do the right things. My daughter always seems to do the right things and those good things are coming her way. Is this all just a coincidence; I think not and it is all part of that thing we call life.

My daughter was very happy and now it was my son’s turn to show some happiness. This evening his team had their third game of the season. I must say my son’s team is loaded with good hitters and it seems everyone hits on the team even those who have trouble in practice. There were no shortage of hits this evening as his team scored somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 runs and one of my son’s teammates even hit the ball out of the park for a homerun.

My son had four good hits in five at bats; he reached based three times striking out once. One of my son’s best hits was turned into an out as the opposing shortstop made a great play stopping the ball and throwing my son out at first base. I was very happy for my son because after striking out his first at bat he came roaring back with the four hits. As my son was on second base he experience a baseball anomaly being party to a triple play. Yes, that is correct the opposing team turned a triple play. It is always suspect when the batter hits the ball in the air because most times the little guys have difficulty fielding the pop flies but on this occasion the pop fly was fielded; my son was caught off second base and the runner on first was also caught off guard thus completing the triple play. I had to laugh because many of the kids had no idea what happened but it was just one of those things.

In spite of the triple play the game went great and unofficially my son’s team has not lost a game. My son played a few positions but finished the game as a catcher. He is getting much better as a catcher and as long as I can get my son to stop throwing his bat after he hits the ball everything will be great. I had been telling my son to hold on to the bat when he hits the ball but in his excitement he continues to throw the bat. Thankfully one of our other coaches had seen this as well and spoke with my son. I do think there is some validity to having a non-biased bystander add their knowledge to my son and it seemed to help. It was a great game and everyone had a great time. I certainly enjoyed every moment of the game and it is beyond wonderful to be able to witness these moments.