It is baseball season in my house. 3 boys playing in 3 different age divisions means a lot of time at the baseball fields for this mama and her family. But it is so fun. And we have made a lot of good friendships there. Zack is on fire this year so far. I'm so proud of him. He hit a home run on opening day, and pitched and played shortstop, and his team won! YAY! (He is currently in the lead for quality at bats in his league in our town!) He played catcher the second game, and they won again! Now, let me give you some background information. His team was in last place last year. It was so sad. They won one game and tied one game the whole season. So even if they don't win another game this whole season, they are already doing better than they did last year! Actually, at the end of the regular season, all the teams play in a tournament of champions against the other teams in their league. Then the winner goes to the district championships. Last year, his team beat the 1st place team in the league! Unbelievable! There were a lot of upset 12 year old boys last year! So anyways the team with the 2nd best record ended up winning the tournament of champions and district championships last year. Zack's team played that TOC & district championship winning team the 1st two games of this season and beat them! However, the other team lost a lot of their best players this year because they aged out of that age division, and they were replaced with young kids.
Did I mention Zack hit a home run? Wowza! And he hit another one at practice tonight. This season is off to a fun start for him. Jacob is in the younger division below Zack's. Jacob has played catcher and pitcher (notice a pattern here?!) and he got 2 in-the-park home runs and a double! So proud of him too. And Joshua is in the younger division below Jacob's, which is coach pitch. He has been doing well too. :)
I'm taking photography classes at the local community college, which I love.
OK so back to baseball.....haha! That's about all my time is filled up with these days. When I'm not at the baseball fields, I'm home washing baseball uniforms! And the D-Backs are on my TV. They had an amazing win the other night in the 12th inning, BTW! Did anyone catch the game?
We are having 3 families from Zack's baseball team over on Sunday for dinner......and I'm sure we'll talk about.... baseball!
I don't really have anything else to talk about. Well, I do have updates on the situation with the BIL and also the people in our open adoption, but I don't feel this is the place to talk about it. Wait, let me back up a few feet. Things are going well between us and Cambria's birth mom and birth father and birth grandmas and aunts, etc. But the details of their lives are private. I texted a picture of Cambria to her birth sister's adoptive mom, and she texted me a picture back of Cambria's birth sister wearing the same exact sweater on the same day...across the country! What are the chances?!
And the details of the saga with the BIL and his daughter.... it's just so sad and frustrating and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. :(
The family member with stage 4 cancer is doing better... finished with chemo and radiation and technically I think is in remission & has to go back in a couple months for a PET scan.
My grandma has Alzheimer's. And it's pretty advanced- and it advanced pretty quickly. It's so sad. That disease robs people of their quality of life in so many ways. I would just like a season in my family's life where nothing bad happens to anyone.
Anyways....my baby girl is 2.5 years old. How did that happen?! Wow, she is so smart and funny and spunky. She knows what she wants and when she wants it (which is usually NOW! Haha!)
I have been using essential oils when the kids or I have been sick. So she has seen me apply them to the chest and/or the bottoms of the feet. The other day we were driving in the car, and she stuck her foot in the air and said, "Mommy, oils on my feet!" Oh my gosh I laughed so hard! She takes in so much of the world around her! And later that same day, my 7 year old son asked me if he looked good in skinny jeans! Bahahaha! I burst out laughing and told him yes and I asked him why he asked me that...did someone at school say he didn't look good in skinny jeans? And he replied, "No, I just knew that I looked good in skinny jeans!" That kid! What a character! And Cami tells me she loves me all the time now. Makes all the hard moments of parenting sooooo worth it!
