Tag Archives: Softball

SPRING IS SPRINGING

Today R-girl played the first six innings of the next 600 or so we will have this spring, summer, and fall, and tomorrow is R-boy’s first Little League practice, which means of course that the weather has now dropped back down to regular Minnesota temps (none of those 60s, 70s, or 80s for us ballgame [...]
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MY GIRL

Have I mentioned how proud I am of my girl—R-girl—who just finished her first season on the high school JV fast-pitch softball team? She was the go-to girl at first base. She had never played first base before this year—and she was just a freshman on a team of older girls—but she stepped up to [...]
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SCORE

Today was R-girl’s last softball tournament of the year. There have been quite a few. Quite. A. Few. So this is bittersweet. Perhaps a teeny, tiny bit more sweet than bitter… The day started at 7:15 a.m. Ok, not for me. I will admit that super-mom that I am not, I skipped the first game. Slept [...]
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