We are definitely turning into a softball family and softball supplies aren’t cheap. Yesterday I even had to make an emergency trip to a sporting goods shop to get warmer sweats because my daughter’s team was playing in a tournament and the temperature was 40 degrees at 8 a.m., the start time of their first game.
The team practices once a week, plus attends batting practice once a week. In between, it’s important for my daughter to practice her pitching, but it would be great if she could also keep her batting practice up on a more regular basis. I think I’ve found the answer, a batting cage that we can put in our backyard.
I found this one at Sears, and, even better, I can attend the Sears Friends & Family VIP Night tonight at the store from 6-9 p.m. or, I can even take advantage of the discounts tonight online from 6 p.m.-6 a.m. The discount is an extra 10% off almost everything, and an extra 5% off home electronics. Plus, apparel and jewelry are an extra 15% discount and outerwear is an extra 20%. That’s really good news considering how cold we were yesterday out at the ball fields, we could all use some new outerwear to prepare for the next softball tournament that is just 2 weeks away.
Besides shopping for softball, I plan to have all of my holiday shopping done soon and there is no way I’m venturing out of the house on Black Friday to deal with the crowds. With the Sears Friends & Family VIP Night I don’t need to wait until Black Friday to get the good deals, I can get them tonight, and so can you!
After staying up extra late the past 2 weeks watching the Olympics, I had to get up early this morning to get my daughter out to the ball fields. Softball tryouts were today.
Maybe because we’ve been staying up late, or maybe it just wasn’t meant to be, today did not go well. She just looked like she was dragging. No enthusiasm, no energy. I was sort of hard to watch and it went on for 3 hours.
I’m very sad for my daughter, I thought softball was what she wanted to do. She tells me it is. She loves the game. She plays so very well. But when it comes to a tryout, she just can’t seem to pull it all together. She looks like she’s miserable. Today, for the first time, I felt like I was forcing her to do something she didn’t want to do.
I’m going to try to let it go for now. She will have to decide what she wants to do. The one thing she lacks is confidence. She has the skills and the talent, but she never thinks she is as good as she is or can be. I don’t know how to build her confidence. It makes me want to cry. How can she be so gifted and not know it?
It makes me even sadder to think that she may not choose to try again and all of her talent will go to waste. But, in the end, it is her choice. I just have to give her room to make a decision.
I was fortunate enough to have been sent a link to this video. This is a must see whether or not you enjoy softball. The character that these girls showed on this day, in this game, is truly outstanding. Warning, you may need a tissue or two while viewing this video. I know I did!
Now that the Destination Imagination season is over, we can freely move on to the next, even more important hobby in our household, SOFTBALL!
That’s right, my daughter plays softball. She picked it up when she was 5 and played t-ball. She absolutely loves it. She took last year off, mainly due to our relocation that happened right at the beginning of the season. This year though, she seems to be coming back with a new found passion. She is on a team that was together last year and will be one of the older teams in their division. She was thinking that she didn’t want to pitch anymore, but I think that decision was being made out of nervousness. I have hired a pitching coach to work with her once a week. She had her second session with him on Sunday and she is really getting into it. I think she hasn’t yet realized just how good she is and he is really helping develop her skills. She has the basics down and he told her so. He’s now teaching her how to have a variety of pitches. It’s really very exciting to watch!
When we lived in Chicago, we were huge White Sox fans and remain so even though we’re now in Dallas. My step daughter even sent my daughter a gift card for purchasing tickets to the Texas Rangers games. Actually, we’re going to try to get tickets when the Rangers are playing the White Sox and we will be wearing our White Sox gear to that game for sure!
In the mean time, I’m thinking it would be fun to participate in a fantasy baseball league. We could draft all of our favorite players from the White Sox and create a really amazing team! If we use Fantasy Sports Prophet’s Fantasy Baseball software we’ll have access to it even if we decide to take a vacation plus it gives us all the player stats we’d need to make our draft decisions. The software also provides injury reports, we don’t want to draft a player who can’t play! Right now I can even get $10 off special for using promo code BMC200 as can you if you’re reading this. This software offers a lot of assistance to manage a fantasy team.
Who knows, maybe we’ll be the big winners both in the fantasy league and my daughter’s softball league, both in the same season!
