Thursday

So, I started my new blog today. It's sad when you start a blog and have a negative energy. It really was bringing me down and I felt self conscious in posting anything newsworthy for fear of who would read it. So, I created a new email and a new blog. Today I shall start anew. If you follow my blog then this is the new address and it's posted on my facebook account.

Tonight is baseball practice again and tomorrow is Maggie's field trip. I had intended to go, told her I would go. They are only allowing 2 parents from each class go due to the lack of room in the theater. They are watching a play tomorrow and evidently the auditorium will be packed. I was tempted to go anyway because I'm a student at that college and had actually received an invitation but I don't want to step on toes and make anyone mad so, I'm not going. I talked to Maggie about it and she says she understands but deep down I can see it in her eyes that she really wants me to go.

Speaking of baseball this is a baseball filled weekend. Graham has 2 games. One on Saturday and one on Sunday. He invited one of his friends that he played with in the past to come and join them part time and he went Tuesday night and said he loved it. His parents aren't going to let him play though. I keep hearing the same thing said....because Brook quit the team.

See, Graham was going to play Fall Ball with the Rec department with his school and before the season started he got an offer from a travel team in Gwinnett to come play. Brook was coaching the rec team. Graham had been saying he wanted to just quit. He was hating rec ball. You couldn't get him to go to practice. It was horrible. When he got invited to play travel ball he was so excited. He wanted this more than anything. And while we normally would never let our children quit anything we allowed Graham to move to the travel team. He would play more games, be with boys with more experience plus be playing with boys his own age. We made a big decision. it wasn't an easy decision but after many days of considering it and talking about it we knew that it was the best thing. So Brook talked to the team, told them he was following Graham, turned the team over to another coach. Everyone said they were OK with but from there on out, it was different. I knew people got upset and really don't blame them. but I had to think about MY child and what was best for him. I think I'm still getting those same bad vibes from parents on that Rec team. Anyway, I was told today that the boys dad didn't want him to play on Brook's team after he left the boys in rec ball the way he did. I had parents say we left the team with nothing by pulling Graham. I completely disagree, there were plenty of players that could step up and besides, just as in the past, Graham could not carry the team alone.

At first I was upset about it but now, it didn't take long to get over it though because I do know that I made the right choice. In the end, with Graham at Chipper Jones and the fact that his attitude about baseball has changed. We are where we need to be. He was invited to join try out for the Clermont A's and said he did not want to do it. He likes being in Duluth. Likes his team. Loves his pitching coach.

So from here on out, I'm going to stop feeling bad about a good decision. From here on out, I will accept the fact that some people are mad about Graham leaving the team. It hasn't hurt us or changed us. We know we did the right thing. So it's time to move on.