The fall baseball season is well under way. We got off to a rough start once the season began with Tao getting a 102.9 fever on his first game and having to be "benched" game one AND game two.
Then, games 3 and four were both rained out while a southern monsoon decided to sweep through the ATL
finally, we are back in gear....we have had 3 consecutive games now and the sky was bright blue with not a single cloud representing today!
Today was a slightly different game for us first timers. Today we played a team that really cared about winning...not the love of the or a bunch of kids on the field having a good time, but to win...we were tied at the end of the game and, as we were the last team on the field, coach asked if they wanted to play another round...not realizing how important it was for them to win, the other team jumped at the opportunity and SLAMMED us in the top of the inning.
Our poor boys didn't know what hit them...
After the game ended, coach had to voice his opinion for the way his boys were treated on the field. Needless to say, there was almost a knock down drag out with most everyone just looking and saying, "it's just a game..."
I am so glad Junior was our coach and not the other guy! He even came over to tell them boys he was sorry...
Then gave Tao his SECOND game ball! Tao is just excelling so incredibly at this sport, it is awesome! He just keeps getting better and better every practice and every game. Kaya wants to play so bad! We will definitely have her signed up for Spring season...by that time we will also need to have them both scheduled for soccer as well..
Mommy definitely needs to find a different job, one that will allow me to taxi both of these sports fanatics wherever they need to go while still being able to afford Thrasher tickets every here and there!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
It's Independence Day
WHAT a wonderful holiday! What a wonderful day it was. And lucky for us in Georgia, we had clear skies all day, followed with a much needed rainy day today. (usually it is the clear skies AFTER the 4th and rain to dampen all of the fireworks)
We started the day, finding the cutest little doggie and becoming friends. He took a special liking to Kaya and even was playing fetch with her within 30 minutes! Once Uncle Gav showed up (driving down from Kentucky to spend the weekend with his surrogate fam), we headed down to Midtown to meet up with the rest of the ATL crew.
We stopped at a wonderful restaurant called Steamhouse Lounge. They are a remodeled house with a multi level dining area, outdoor patios, the works. They have a mostly seafood menu with a few burgers, polish dogs and TRIPLE cheese grilled cheese sandwiches. They have a phenominal Shrimp and scallop quesidilla and any place that serves the kids entrees with tator tots is a win-win for us!
Once we were done devouring our meals, half of the crew headed to Lakewood to rock out with Ziggy Marley and 311 while the parents headed up to our house to have a Star Wars (Return of the Jedi) marathon and firworks...
Baby Garvie and Kaya became such good buds, Kaya treater her like she was her own (I hope there is no separation anziety today!) After a few more hours, when the sun finally went down (for our four year old, the anticipation I swear, made him age another 4 yrs!) we headed out to see the fireworks (and light off our own). What fun! Everyone in the neighborhood had their fireworks to show and it made for a wonderful nightcap to the evening.
Maybe it is because I am getting up there in age, maybe it is because I try to look a little deeper at the importance of everything these days so that I don't miss a single opportunity or maybe it is just in trying to make sure I am teaching the kids everything I possibly can every step of the way...I am not sure what exactly it is. I just know that we are so blessed to be able to have a holiday such as the 4th, to celebrate on such a National level and that, the celebration of our freedom is something so many people (myself included) take for advantage on such an idividual level...
We spend so much of our lives and our enegry making sure we conform to what we 'think' others expect of us. Spend so much time worrying if we will make the grade with this person or that. We stress over so many minor details that truly have nothing to do with the sheer bliss of being alive and free and we let every day pass forgetting that we are here to be ourselves. That combined, every single one of us, staying true to the freedom to let our soul ring live with the truth of who we are inside, that we create this wonderful world we exist in, combined, one unified element creating the reality we wake up into every day.
Ultimately, though we do reside in a country in which we have our "freedom", I believe that we, as humans, are denying ourselves the true freedoms we have as a being with a heart, soul and mind to make all of our dreams come true, all of our ideas facts and all of our fears obstacles we overcame...we need to reach within, find the reality within every breath we take and soar on the happiness that is being alive...free to breathe and free to be.
And make every day Independence Day, never conforming from who we really are and what we really should be.
We started the day, finding the cutest little doggie and becoming friends. He took a special liking to Kaya and even was playing fetch with her within 30 minutes! Once Uncle Gav showed up (driving down from Kentucky to spend the weekend with his surrogate fam), we headed down to Midtown to meet up with the rest of the ATL crew.
We stopped at a wonderful restaurant called Steamhouse Lounge. They are a remodeled house with a multi level dining area, outdoor patios, the works. They have a mostly seafood menu with a few burgers, polish dogs and TRIPLE cheese grilled cheese sandwiches. They have a phenominal Shrimp and scallop quesidilla and any place that serves the kids entrees with tator tots is a win-win for us!
Once we were done devouring our meals, half of the crew headed to Lakewood to rock out with Ziggy Marley and 311 while the parents headed up to our house to have a Star Wars (Return of the Jedi) marathon and firworks...
Baby Garvie and Kaya became such good buds, Kaya treater her like she was her own (I hope there is no separation anziety today!) After a few more hours, when the sun finally went down (for our four year old, the anticipation I swear, made him age another 4 yrs!) we headed out to see the fireworks (and light off our own). What fun! Everyone in the neighborhood had their fireworks to show and it made for a wonderful nightcap to the evening.
Maybe it is because I am getting up there in age, maybe it is because I try to look a little deeper at the importance of everything these days so that I don't miss a single opportunity or maybe it is just in trying to make sure I am teaching the kids everything I possibly can every step of the way...I am not sure what exactly it is. I just know that we are so blessed to be able to have a holiday such as the 4th, to celebrate on such a National level and that, the celebration of our freedom is something so many people (myself included) take for advantage on such an idividual level...
We spend so much of our lives and our enegry making sure we conform to what we 'think' others expect of us. Spend so much time worrying if we will make the grade with this person or that. We stress over so many minor details that truly have nothing to do with the sheer bliss of being alive and free and we let every day pass forgetting that we are here to be ourselves. That combined, every single one of us, staying true to the freedom to let our soul ring live with the truth of who we are inside, that we create this wonderful world we exist in, combined, one unified element creating the reality we wake up into every day.
Ultimately, though we do reside in a country in which we have our "freedom", I believe that we, as humans, are denying ourselves the true freedoms we have as a being with a heart, soul and mind to make all of our dreams come true, all of our ideas facts and all of our fears obstacles we overcame...we need to reach within, find the reality within every breath we take and soar on the happiness that is being alive...free to breathe and free to be.
And make every day Independence Day, never conforming from who we really are and what we really should be.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Baby steps
Today I start the next chapter of my life. Today I begin to incorporate my dreams with my heart. I need to make more time for me and my family and progress towards a greater learning and living of life itself!
Today I start with baby steps. Today I made sure to take the extra trip to school to make sure that the kids had their sunscreen. Today I looked up important details necessary to establish my own studio as well as to begin my career as a writer.
Today I told my husband that I loved him, my friends they inspire me.
Today I write my first blog.
It is scary. My heart hasn't stopped beating a mile a minute. I have a little bit of the sweats, I guess I could pretend those are from the lingering strep throat keeping me home today, or the fact that I just charged $2.24 on the credit card to read "$39.99 IF you choose to continue, $9.95 IF you choose to continue..." followed by 3 or 4 other "optional free trails I inadvertently signed up for that I now have to remember to watch out for, but maybe, all the excitement and sweating and jittery feelings are all because I am taking a step in the right direction. Finally...and I didn't sit around and wait for myself to talk myself out of it.
Today I start with baby steps. Today I made sure to take the extra trip to school to make sure that the kids had their sunscreen. Today I looked up important details necessary to establish my own studio as well as to begin my career as a writer.
Today I told my husband that I loved him, my friends they inspire me.
Today I write my first blog.
It is scary. My heart hasn't stopped beating a mile a minute. I have a little bit of the sweats, I guess I could pretend those are from the lingering strep throat keeping me home today, or the fact that I just charged $2.24 on the credit card to read "$39.99 IF you choose to continue, $9.95 IF you choose to continue..." followed by 3 or 4 other "optional free trails I inadvertently signed up for that I now have to remember to watch out for, but maybe, all the excitement and sweating and jittery feelings are all because I am taking a step in the right direction. Finally...and I didn't sit around and wait for myself to talk myself out of it.
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