Exercises in futility

Lookin' cute in his new hat and jersey! 

Dear Jesse,

It was meant to be Josiah's first fall ball scrimmage tonight. Unfortunately, the heavens opened an hour or two before; it started pouring around 4 p.m.  Getting home from F&M required wading out to the car in water coursing through the parking lot up to my ankles (my poor sandals will never recover). So instead of packing up a picnic when I got home, which had been the plan for us to bring to the ball field, the boys and I instead got excited at the prospect of curling up with a classic Disney move and pizza. 

But then — and here's the crazy thing — the scrimmage was not called off. I may or may not have snorted (and then sighed) at the email that arrived 35 minutes before we needed to be there. The coach explained that all of the coaches had "decided that this [was] a quick storm." I'm sure he didn't mean it that way, but it struck me as such a guy way to put it. Ah, good, the men decided what the weather would be. Never mind radar showing thunderstorms in every direction and each weather station calling for rain through the evening. Never mind that this now meant we had to scramble for food, get all geared up, and head off to a muddy field...for an event that surely would be called off in very short order. 

But of course being the angel of good cheer that I am, I did the whole thing. With a smile, even, I kid you not. I jollied the boys along and got us out to the (very wet) field with everything we needed. As did every other family. And to be fair, the rain did quit for a bit. But with lightening cutting the cloud dark sky, I overheard Josiah saying to a teammate during warm-ups, "This lightening is not good. We use metal bats!" 

Just as the kids were called to their dugouts to get the game underway, lightening worsened, rain recommenced, and the coaches decided this actually was not a quick storm. Go figure! Without so much as a first pitch, we all packed up and went home. 

Thank goodness I'm such a sports fanatic and have so much free time this relaxing first week of classes! Otherwise I might have been a wee bit annoyed.