Best Friends...

Liam has a new best friend...One of the families from Sam's ball team has a new puppy, 9 week old Kiya (sp? long i, short a). Liam is completely and totally in love. At games you have to rip him from her side. He informed me that he wanted me to tell Poppy that he wanted a german shepard puppy for his birthday ~ LOL!!
We are actually, believe it or not, not at all opposed to the idea of a german shepard pup...for some reason a german shepard is the one exception to Jon's small dog rule?? Go figure...but I've told Liam we'll have to wait awhile...like probably 'til Scrooge goes to the big kitty kennel in the sky!

In the meantime, Kiya has staked a claim on a HUGE chunk of Liam's heart ~ it kind of makes me sad and happy at the same time...I love how much he loves her, and wish I could give him that. It's just not meant to be right now, but a boy and a dog is a beautiful thing to behold!

Love you all!!

Seriously...

The boys don't play again until Tuesday...they are now in the losers bracket. One more loss and they are outta here! They lost today. To Marengo Blue. A-G-A-I-N!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm here to tell you at this point I think the boys are right...they cannot beat them. If they have to play them again, I will not be watching. Truth be told I didn't really watch most of today's game, it was too depressing. That's all I have to say about that! Love you!

A Rough 24 Hours!

Oh my...I'm going to catch you up as quickly as possible here...

• Friday night Liam played well...not phenomenally...but he held his own. Which is really saying something considering he moved up and played infield! He ended up playing shortstop and 2nd base and he was SO EXCITED!! He didn't get any base hits, but was able to make contact every time he came up to bat. His performance was encouraging.
• At 4am yesterday morning, Jon woke me up in extreme, doubled over, nauseating pain. He informed me he was going to drive himself to the emergency room. Ridiculous, huh? Considering the CLOSEST one was 25 minutes away! So I woke the kids up and we took him to Mt Gilead. Poor thing has a kidney stone! Not a large one, they said it was passing through fine and would probably be gone within 24 hours (we haven't seen it yet though).
• So, LOVELY beginning to the day! We got him home (thankfully doped up on pain meds so he could sleep at last) and got ready to go back to Mt Gilead for Liam's ball game. Liam had a great game and his team won 7-0. We headed home to check on Jon and prepare for Sam's game ( in Mt Gilead, can you believe that????),
• I fed the kids lunch and caught a 20 minute nap on the couch. I was dithering around in my mind trying to figure out when I was going to have time (hopefully SOON) to fill Jon's prescriptions. Knowing his meds from the hospital would wear off eventually, I wanted to get it done asap.
• God took care of that for me! Sam's coach texted me and the game was rain delayed! So, Mag's and Liam and I headed to Mt Vernon to fill the scrips. The most wonderful thing happened to me on the way. I hit EVERY SINGLE LIGHT on Coshocton Ave green!! Can you believe that? It's NEVER happened before! I was in awe! lol ~ so we got that done and were able to get Jon snuggled down on the couch before we headed BACK over to Mt Gilead.
• We grabbed some Subway for supper and progressed to the "warm up" field for batting practice. The boys did all their warm ups at a different set of fields because Sam's coach decided to engage in a little psycological warfare. He wanted the opposing team to stew and wonder if our boys were showing up or not an when they DID show up he wanted them READY to play!! Which I found amusing...anyhoo... Sam's team won their game 13-6. So, they move on to round 2 today and wouldn't you know it!!!!!!!!!!! They have to play Marengo Blue!!!!!!!! The very selfsame team that beat the SNOT out of them a couple weeks ago. The same team that wrote nasty stuff about our boys in their dugout...the same team they have played 4 times this year (though only one was a "schedule" game) and have yet to beat even once!! Our boys have a mental block when it comes to this ONE team and I'm not really sure WHY?? They are not any better, but I think our boys think they are!? So, while I refuse to ask anyone to pray that we win, that would be inappropriate and a petty thing to bug God with (given the state of our world today!!), I WILL ask for prayers that our boys believe in themselves today!!
• By the time we got home last night, around 8:45pm I was WIPED OUT!! By 10pm I had everything done that needed to be done. No matter how tired I am I cannot go to bed without everything in it's place (lol)! I got the laundry put in, I'm sure you all understand the laundry issue during tournaments (at least one load has to be done daily)! I FELL into bed and slept until 8am this morning ~ the sleep of the dead no less!! Today I am well rested, Jon is feeling much better, still in some pain, but not in cold sweats or ready to puke! The kids are still sleeping and we are all recovering from our rough 24 hours!
• I will be sure to let you know how Sam's game goes today! I love you all!!

Breaking News! More to Come Later!

Liam got called up to the bigs this afternoon! Coach Reid called and asked me if he could play for his peewee team tonight in Cardington. Now, forgive me for a moment of pride...I know it's shameful but I am GLOWING with it...not only is he playing "up" this evening...Coach Reid wants him to play 1st base!!!!! He said he wants to put him at 1st, he may put him at 3rd, but that if I'm ok with it he most certainly wants to play him infield! He told Jon he feels that Liam has emerged as far ahead of the rest of his team(coach pitch) and that he believes he's better than half the kids on his older team as well (kid pitch)!! Ahhh...that's my boy, well ok...that's Jon's boy if we're going to be honest! I'm STILL afraid of the ball at age 35!! I'll take pics tonight and let y'all know how it goes!! Love you all!

Practice Makes Perfect

Boy...do I hope so!! We are having a week of practice, practice, game, practice!

• Grandma Debby was in town with the kids yesterday. They were excited to see her and Liam got to play baseball with her in the stands for a second time this year! Unfortunately, he had a bad game! It was nice to have her here for the day...thanks Mom!
• Maggie had her first practice tonight in what seems like ages! It was a really long 4th of July ball break for her and Liam! They have not gotten rusty though...Jon and all three kids are out in the yard throwing that ball around constantly! She was happy to be back tonight and wants everyone to know that when they ran to the tree and back at the end of practice she finished FIRST!!
• Liam has lost 2 games in a row after a 2 week break for their team...they're like Ohio State apparently, having a bye week (or two) is catastrophic! Liam, as I already said, had a bad game last night...but tonight he was ON and in 5 at bats had a triple, a double and 3 singles...yeah baby, batting 1000!!!
• Sam has had practice EVERY night since Sunday and has practice again tomorrow. We're not sure about Friday yet, but I'd be surprised if they didn't! We found out tonight that they are in first place in their league and they play their first tournament game Saturday @ 3pm! I am SUPER excited! This is the first time since coach pitch that he's been on such a promising team. Hopefully, they'll go ALL THE WAY!!!!
• I spent a very productive day today puttering outside. Cutting some grass, planting some lettuce and spinach (kind of late for that, so not sure how it will do?) and basically cleaning up the yard. It should stay cleaned up for roughly 12 hours...the kids will destroy it first thing tomorrow I'm sure!
• Well, that's all for me now...I love you all!!!