It’s Spring, It May be Snowing, But It’s Spring!

When I say Spring around my house the first thing everyone thinks is….Baseball. Yep, that is what spring means around here, baseball.

Bubba started his baseball practices about 2 weeks ago. I know! The second week of February, geez….

I just recently got home from baseball practice with Bubba and it took most of the way home for me to thaw out! Seriously, it was like 40 degrees outside with a biting windchill of 32 degrees! Yikes!! That doesn’t say Spring to me, does it say Spring to you?

So now that we are all warm and toasty back at home, I just realized that there is a chance of snow tonight. Are you kidding me? Freezing cold with a biting wind is bad enough, but snow too? Come on….

Anyway, enough of my rambling….

This is the first year Bubba is going to play pitch baseball. For those of you that might not know what I mean by that, let me explain.

When you are small your coordination isn’t the best (as moms we already know this!), so instead of having the boys pitch to each other, they use a batting tee up until about 4-5 years. After the batting tee, the boys get to play “coach pitch” baseball, until they are about 8 years old. It’s great to watch, the coach stands on the mound and throws the pitch, then moves so the play can happen like normal!  This is a lot closer to a real game if I ever saw one.

Once they have mastered the basic rules and techniques of the game, at 9-10 years old they finally get to pitch from the pitchers mound to the batters. Whew boy! I’m telling ya, now we are going to play some real baseball this year! Pitching, stealing bases (YeeHaw!), and scoring, that is what the game is ALL ABOUT!!

This was Bubba’s reply to me after I asked how he felt the first time he stood on the receiving end of a pitch from his teammate, “Ummmm, a little anxious and a little scared.” Bravo for being honest!

I don’t know if I could stand in the batters box and wait on a pitch from a 9 or 10 year old either!

So, as the season progresses, I will share as much about this season as I can. I love baseball, especially when my boy is on the team, hopefully the winning team this year.

Talk soon……