Today, I:
- Watched my son sink three baskets in his Upward basketball game, and thought to bring and use the video camera to boot.
- Removed the training wheels from my son’s bicycle, and watched him take off unencumbered the very first time he tried.
- Started and extinguished the first kitchen fire of my life. Let’s talk adrenaline, boys and girls.
- Reconnected on Facebook with both one of my main buds from little boyhood and the very first girl who ever had my heart, from way back in 1976.
I had no idea this day would be this day. I was pleased to be here for it.
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GOOD FOR YOU HAVING A VIDEO CAMERA THERE FOR THE BASKETS!!!!!
I missed recording it when my oldest son hit his first home run in baseball. Actually, I nearly missed the home run. I had gone to the concession stand and heard him called to bat… I moved back behind the backstop to watch him hit and he hit the second pitch, not only out of the park, but over the standing line of trees beyond the fence.
Having been a baseball player the majority of my juvenile life, I knew the exhilieration he was feeling. His mother showered him with adoration, hugs, kisses, the whole thing. I did the “baseball coaching Dad thing” and went to the dugout, offered him a fist-bump through the fence then simply told him, “Good hit, Son. Remember, you still have a game to finish playing.”
His next at-bat, three-swing strike out. He was crushed. He learned more from the strike-out that followed than his home run, of course. Maybe I should have recorded that.
indeed, it was a cool sunday, wasn’t it???