Well - maybe I do want to go to the game.....

So, my oldest tells me yesterday - "I'm not sure I want to go to the game tomorrow. I'll think about it."

WHAT?????

An almost 9-year-old doesn't want to go watch the greatest game ever invented....at Disney's baseball complex?

Again......WHAT?????

So, in the car on the way to Sunday School this morning, my oldest says - "Remember how I said I'd think about going to the game? Well, I think I do want to go."

"Do you want to go? Or, sort of want to go," I ask her.

"Well, I sort of want to go. Actually, I sort of want to go because I love the food."

So, had this conversation happened yesterday, I would have accepted that as "good enough for me" and I'd be applying sun screen right now.

HOWEVER, the late acceptance is too late for today and my 4-year-old is eagerly awaiting our return to Winter Park so she can go swimming as soon as we get home (that's the deal my wife crafted with our 4-year-old).

Bottom line......don't ask the kids whether they want to go to a game.....buy the tickets immediately and know they'll at least love the food!




PS - where is the pool guy to clean out those leaves?

Spring is here!

Today is the big day - PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TODAY!



My favorite day of the year as a kid and young adult living in the frozen tundra of PA. The day you knew that it meant that soon it will be warm again. Soon, it will be time to shed the snow suit for the mitt. Soon, you won't need gloves anymore. Soon, it will be time to watch the Phillies in those beautiful pinstripes.



As much as things change from year to year, you always knew that Spring Training was on its way.



I like change when it's healthy - but, I also like tradition. It's like I said to good friends of mine over Christmas break in PA - we may work somewhere else, or we may live somewhere else, but it's great to know that you can always "go home" and enjoy the company of good friends....and, that they support you no matter what your flaws.



Well - welcome home good friend......PLAY BALL!