Go CUBS!

The boys finished out their baseball season in June after our trip north.  They missed 3 games while we were gone.  This was their last game.  And well, it was memorable for sure.  Do you ever have one of those moments where your kids are so mad at you and you honestly just made a mistake?  

The part where I thought their game was at 7:15pm is where it went bad.  We pulled into the parking lot at 7:00pm and their team was on the field, in the middle of the game.  It was then that I realized their game was obviously at 6pm and we missed the whole thing.  Yes, yes, I won the mother of the year award.  So when the game wrapped up, 2 minutes later I might add, they had their team celebration to which Spencer wanted no part of.  He was mad, rightfully so, and refused to party.  Jack wasn't interested until he saw the juice boxes, cupcakes and Klondike bars and he was suddenly over missing the game and running and sweating.  He was perfectly fine, of course!  

Spencer is just like Scott, and well, the rest of us for that matter.  When you have a picture, the last thing you want is your picture shattered.  And if that happens, well, you need some time to work it out.  Well, the neat part in this was the purposes of God.  The team after them was short five players.  So our coach asked the other coach if our boys could lend a hand and help their team since they were short.  So not only did the boys get their ice cream bars and cupcakes, they did get to serve someone else and take the focus off themselves.  I continue to see God do things like this with the kids.  As they have grown in the last year, they have had to grow and be stretched farther than I would have imagined in their personalities and preferences.  They were able to walk onto a team they had never met and pick up and play ball with them and support that team.  And when it was over, they were able to walk away and you could see how serving someone else made them find value in an evening that had gone bad.  Sometimes our pictures are so small compared to the pictures God has for us.  We just have to learn to stay open and that was the lesson for the night for all of us ........