Keeping up with life.

What a week. It feels like Christian's birhday was just two days ago and I am not that far behind. Unfortunately, life with three boys moves much faster than that. My mom came up to stay the night with us to celebrate Christians birthday. She headed up to Belligham the next day to see my neice. I really wanted to jump in the car and go with but I had to be back for the boys. Saturday all the boys had basketball games and I had baseball sign ups for the little league. A couple of our friends came over to watch the Seahawks game and when I got home from sign-ups everyone (including my house) was bonkers. Sunday Chris worked on the pass. Christian went with him and they had a great day of male bonding. They skiied the crossover from central to west and Christian loved it. I have been making new friends at the copiers here in North Bend. I have been makig copies for the little league and distributing them all over the place in the community. The girls at the copy place are sweet and the get my projects ready when they see me pull up to the curb.
Last night I took a shift at the library, trying to finish my LA training so I can get more hours and become a contributing member of this family. After work I headed to NorthBend for some more baseball sign ups. I kind of have to shamelessly brag about something but it makes me feel so good that I have to share. Going through the signup sheets there were a few coaches requests. One set of names came up pretty frequently and I was so proud. Chris gets hands down by far the most requests in the little league. Some people remember to add my name as I coach with him at the younger levels, but it is Chris. I was noticing not only returning kids but other kids we don't know put Chris down for various reasons. Most of the requests aren't our friends either. Our friends know it is a draft and have stopped trying long ago. The requests are awesome regardless because we put so much time and energy into baseball and the community. You hope that people appreciate your effort and think you did a good job. This is the only sure way to know that they do. I came home last night and told Mister Humble Pie about the requests and he says a non-chalant "thats great." I on the other hand was bursting with pride that we have the opportunity to have such a positive influence in these kids lives. Maybe in the end when all the registrations come through, we won't have the most. No one really counts those things anyway, but the fact that we even have a few is the best reward. It makes you realize its not just worth it for our kids that we are there everyday, it is worth it to some others too.