Sunday, July 26, 2009

State Bound

Tomorrow we head west for the State playoffs with a 70% chance of rain waiting to greet us. The tournament is a little over 100 miles from home and 48 or so miles from my younger sister's house . . . so . . . we will be staying with her for the week instead of a hotel.

The only thing the boy will miss out on is swimming with his team-mates on Tuesday morning - the only day that their coach will allow them to swim.

His cousin is his age and playing with him during the day before his game will be more fun than sitting around a small hotel room.

My sister has a pool, so as long as 12 year old doesn't swim too long, he should be okay for . . . sitting on the bench during the game! (Ha!) But seriously, I have tried to encourage 12 to embrace the bench and mentally be prepared in case he is called into the game. He isn't alone. After his team won the league, they had to draft three other players from the 3rd place team. The coach warned us that the boys that will be drafted will be starters. Their team went from 11 players to 14 so 5 boys are always on the bench.

Well - lots of lightening happening - so will sign off until next week!

10 comments:

Vickie said...

have a great time with your sister and good luck to the baseball team!

Patience said...

Fun fun!!

Jill said...

Good luck! I hope he gets to play some!

Diana Swallow said...

Hope you're having a great trip and a nice visit with your sister!

Sharla said...

I can post again!!!
Hope the trip went well and the boy had fun.

Is the girl dancing?
How's the drought?

Vickie said...

are the kids on their way back to school soon - new report here was talking about southern kids starting school this week - ???

Laura N said...

Hope it went well!!

Helen said...

Hope you had a great trip...and a teeny vacation with the pool! :-)

Diana Swallow said...

update?

Vickie said...

darling, it is august now - time for an update. . .