My view

I'm figuring out that I have the most time to blog when I'm sitting on a bleacher somewhere waiting for a kid to get done playing a sport. So if you can put up with the typos, you may be hearing a bit more from me this summer.

Today I'm waiting on Alek to get out of basketball practice. This summer is the first time he hasn't played baseball since he was four years old and I have to admit it was tough for me to swallow. And of course, you know it's ALL about me. ;)

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Play ball!

I'm posting this from my phone, sitting on the bleachers at the ballpark, so I'll make it quick.

We've been crazy busy with the end of school. The kids have been off a week now and we're starting to get settled into our new routine. And, of course, that includes baseball.

Maddie's team started practicing tonight and she couldn't be more excited. Hope to have more updates for you in the coming days.

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little house on the prairie

God, it seems, has a sense of humor.

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a real life friend, who has become not only a great encouragement, but my own personal moving buddy. Our lives have eerily mirrored each other in the last six months. Insanely so, really. First her husband lost his job and then was offered a miraculous solution just six weeks later. Not only that, but they had to make an out-of-state move. Sound familiar? Yeah. The same, exact thing happened to us just six weeks later.

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