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Baseball Shuttle Service

April 17, 2008 |

Baseball PracticeMy son has decided to play baseball this year. This week is spring vacation and apparently I am the only mom in my town that’s home. The coach decided to hold practice at 11am on Tuesday, instead of 4:30pm like usual, and the phone started ringing right away - friends of my son looking for rides.

I have 4 children so after the 5 of us are packed in the van there’s only room for 2 more people. I quickly filled those spots and set to figuring out just how early I’d have to leave to pick everyone up and still get them to practice on time. The high school is 20 minutes away from us and we’re the closest.

Truth be told, I don’t mind being a shuttle service. I know how tough it is to be a working parent and try to get your children to their practices, games and other activities. I am one of those parents. I just happen to be lucky enough to work for a school so I’m home this week with the kids.

I set off an hour before practice started and picked up two more members of the 7th grade boys baseball team. When the van was full and we were headed to the high school my 3 daughters entertained the guys in their ever boisterous, exuberant, somewhat obnoxious, torturous fashion.

I heard my son’s closest friend tell another kid

“I’m going tape (the girls acting hyper), post it on YouTube and title it
This is what my best friend has to suffer through.
Every. Single. Day“.

Dude. You don’t know the half of it.

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  1. Amy on April 18, 2008 12:47 am

    lol sorry Jules I’m laughing at this end :lol:
    I hope the other parents will reciprocate…

    Amy’s last blog post..Gotta feel sorry for them…

  2. cassie-b on April 23, 2008 10:57 am

    Best of luck with your baseball season. I posted just recently the results of my 2 son’s baseball season. They each had 20 games, and each won 2. I sat through a LOT of losing games that year!

    Cas

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