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One Year

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One Year BlogAversary

Today, my blog has been up and running for one year! It feels like I was just writing my first post then I blinked and now here I am a year later. It has been a great outlet for me, and even if no one read anything I write I’d still be happy with it. I love going back and reading posts and remembering details of whatever I was writing about on that particular day. This thing has been my (very public) diary throughout my first year of marriage and traveling alongside my baseball playing husband for the first time and I’m grateful for it. But before I go any further I just want to say THANK YOU, thank you, thank you to everyone who has read my words. I hope you all continue to travel along with me on this baseball journey and learn and experience the things I write about as if you were right here next to me the whole time. Going forward, I have some new ideas that I will be testing out in the coming months and I hope you all will enjoy them.

If you were wondering, I haven’t written any new posts for this New Year intentionally just because I knew this (kind of big) day was coming up. So I’m going to do a little fast paced catch up…here we go!

January 1, 2013 – Happy New Year my friends! So excited for what this year has in store. I have a feeling it’s going to be a good one!!!

January 7, 2013 – Happy One Year Anniversary to my wonderful husband!!! Our first year of marriage was breathtaking and I can’t wait for the many, many more to come.

Ok. That’s really all the catching up I needed to do. See how thrilling my life is? Exactly.

Spring training is rapidly approaching, but in reality has already begun. Addison has been working out at the Yankee complex since the end of last season since we live so close, but has really been getting back into the groove the last couple of weeks. I’m actually really excited for the season to begin again. Not excited about packing our car with what we can fit and driving to a still unknown destination, leaving our family for six months, sleeping on an air mattress (which I’m crossing my fingers doesn’t have to happen, hah!), and possibly getting to know a whole new city again. But I am excited for the baseball games, being with and watching my husband every day, living in sheer dependency of one another because we only have each other and more cheesy stuff like that :-) . So I say bring on Spring Training 2013, I’m ready for you!

 

Photo Credit: Me and my mad skills with Microsoft Word. Please, don’t everyone rush at once for me to create sweet pics like that for your bloggy needs ;-)

Perspective

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Good Morning!

I hope all of you are having a blessed Christmas season so far. Addison and I started what I call our “gypsy holiday travels” earlier this week and today we are getting on the road to our next destination. This morning I woke up in an unusually good mood and I had the urge to write to you all today. I want to talk to you about perspective. Complaining is just a part of human nature, to never be satisfied with what we have seems to be built into our core. I have been trying hard to break out of that very nasty habit. Because those thoughts…”oh, this will happen when Addison makes the big leagues…things will be like this when we have our own house…we will be so much happier when this happens”…THOSE thoughts are what keep me from enjoying every second of my life right now. And for what? Those thoughts might not ever become reality, so why am I clinging to them so hard? It’s because for those moments when I let those thoughts take over I take my eyes off of perspective. In the United States of America we the people have lives that most of the world couldn’t even dream of. If you are a poor man here you could go to some other countries and be considered wealthy. Houses, telephones, computers, freedom of religion and speech, beds, clothes, FOOD, WATER. For many of us these are things we don’t even consider to be luxuries, but they are to most of the people in our world. All I ask of each of you that reads this today is that you look at your life in a different way. Before you complain about your situation, put it in perspective first. Continue to dream big in your life, do what you love, have the things you want. Just be happy and thankful that you can.

I live a life that I love and I thank God for it every day. Christmas is upon us and I urge each of you to remember the REAL reason that we celebrate; the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. I hope each and every one of you has a very Merry Christmas full of family, love, and laughter.

Love Always,

Breanna

Unfinished Business

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Hi friends. Hope every one of you had a very happy Thanksgiving. I know I did, I ate twice. But please note that no turkey was harmed in the making of my “Turkey” day ;-) .

I had big plans to do a part two to my “Feeding a Big League Appetite on a Minor League Budget” post but I started it, deleted it, started it again, and then deleted it again. Just wasn’t working out. I also started a post on my favorite books and books that I’m currently reading. Deleted that one too. If you are interested 1)I love all the Harry Potter books more than any other books and re-read them every few years just because 2) Recently finished reading “Game of Thrones”, book one in A Song of Fire and Ice series and I’m hooked 3) I enjoy self help books. (That was basically all I had to go on while writing, so you might see the dilemma I was facing with that post.)

My life as of late has consisted of lots and lots and lots of Christmas crafting. My fingers hurt from the many glue gun burns and the overload of raffia twisting. I’m doing a craft show with my mother in law this Saturday and I’ve been rushing to finish up all my crafts because the husband and myself will be leaving tomorrow to Miami for a conference/mini vacation…which I still need to pack for. So that’s really it for now. I’ll be back sooner rather than later (I think?).

To be continued…

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Happy November! Happy Day after Halloween! Hope you all aren’t experiencing the candy coma that I am today. Seriously though, we bought SO MUCH CANDY and not even one trick-or-treater came to our door. So I spent the evening drowning my sorrows in the chocolate meant for the children who didn’t come by our door for some treats. Anyways, I’m very sorry I’ve been such a bad blogger lately. I’ve been busy enjoying all the blessings of the off season. More time with Addison. Cooking and baking in a well stocked kitchen. Crafting to my heart’s content. Cleaning up after my messy husband (is that one really a blessing?! I’m not so sure). We’ve also spent a lot of time going for bike rides, kayaking, and of course visiting our family.

Now that November is here, the holidays are right around the corner and things are going to start getting crazy with all of the family time, eating, gift shopping/making, and everything else that comes with this time of the year. But I promise even with all of that I’ll be a better blogger from here on out, I have a few things up my sleeve that I hope you are all going to enjoy!

Easter

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It has already been one week since we arrived here in the North East, and we are 4 games into the 2012 season with the Trenton Thunder. Yesterday was Easter and thankfully we had an off day so I got to have a whole day with my husband. It was actually the first Easter we have ever been able to spend together! We started the day by going to church with a few other players and their wives, and we all went to lunch afterwards. I spent the rest of the afternoon cooking Easter dinner for Addison and our other roommates. It was my very first experience cooking a holiday meal all on my own and it was actually a success! I was so happy to be able to provide somewhat of a normal holiday to these boys who so often have to miss special occasions because their job does not allow time for things like that. Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, 4th of July, birthdays, weddings, and for some even Thanksgiving and Christmas are all special days that baseball players cannot usually take the time to celebrate with their families.

Since this year is the first I’ve been able to travel with Addison during the season, yesterday was my very first taste of living so far away from family on a holiday. It was tough because I already miss being away from them so much. This part of the baseball life I don’t think I’ll ever get used to. I’m living this life with my husband now, and we both have to make sacrifices for each other…giving up some holidays with our family so that I can be with him just happens to be one of them. Although I did miss our family, we had such a wonderful day! I hope everyone else had a very Happy Easter!

The sermon at church included this verse that resounded with me and I wanted to share…“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” Romans 5:5