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Back in Action

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It’s been a while. Too long really. I’ve been caught up in the new season and a little off on my writing with all the craziness that has been going on in this country of ours as of late. But I’m back! We are currently in Scranton, PA playing for the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (AAA). The team has newly renovated stadium that is absolutely beautiful. If you live in the area and haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend you do so. Addison is doing his usual, super utility thing. Already this season he’s made appearances at 3rd base, 1st base, short stop and right field. That really keeps things exciting for me, never knowing where he might be playing next! The only thing that I haven’t been enjoying here is the cold weather that doesn’t seem to ever want to leave. Yesterday was the first warm day we have had since we’ve been here, but it rained and brought in another little cold front. My fingers are crossed that it just gets warmer and warmer from here.

I’m not sure if it’s typical for AAA baseball, but the team makes some long away trips. They just got back from an eight day road trip and are about to leave again in a few days for a NINE day trip! I didn’t go on the last one and unfortunately I will be staying behind again. So I’ll hopefully get to venture out and explore the area some while I have lots of free time! If anyone has any ideas on how to fill my time, send them my way! I’ll be forever grateful.

I’ll be back soon, promise!

Searching for Solitude

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God works in mysterious ways. There is no doubt in my mind about that. This whole morning I have felt restless and a little bit uneasy. Could it be the fact that today is the first “official” day of Spring Training for Addison, heralding the beginning of a very long baseball season? Why yes, I think so. It’s not that I’m NOT ready for it, I really am and I’m even excited to start going to games again. But way down deep I feel a pull at my heart. It is an all too familiar feeling that I get a lot during baseball season. Since I’ve been feeling this I’ve worked hard to keep myself busy in an effort to avoid it. I’ve already cleaned, paid bills, organized some stuff, and checked my twitter feed a zillion times. If you know me, you know I’m not all about the cleaning and organizing thing…so what gives? Well, I finally sat down and read today’s women’s devotional from Baseball Chapel and it all kind of clicked.

I’m feeling lonely.

Ugh. It’s not even like it’s been that long since I’ve been alone. Addison has just been at camp for a few hours and he will be home again in a few hours. I really don’t even think that it’s a present loneliness that I’m feeling. It’s like I’m prepping for loneliness to come.  With baseball season comes moving to an unknown place, spending most of the day by myself, and being left alone on long away trips. Anyways that really isn’t the point here. The devotional talked about the differences between loneliness and solitude. I have always viewed my aloneness as loneliness, and I would constantly try to fill it with fluff…TV, internet, shopping, etc. But I don’t have to be lonely. I don’t have to seek out ways to cure myself of that loneliness. I just need a new perspective.

SOLITUDE.

I can enjoy my aloneness by seeking ways to better myself and further my relationship with Christ. There is no reason to feel lonely when I’m alone, because I’m never really “alone”. My goal for this season is to seek out times of solitude, enjoy them, and make the most of them. I know I was meant to read that particular devotional today of all days, and I’m thankful for the comfort only the Lord can provide me.

Short n’ (very) Sweet

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I’ve got something to tell you all officially, that I’ve had to keep secret for a little while. It actually has been public news for a few days now but I just wanted to tell you for myself too :-) ! Addison was extended an invitation to big league spring training!!!!!! I am beyond excited for him to get this opportunity, because the man has worked so hard for it. So now we REALLY can’t wait for spring training to begin. Which is very, very soon by the way.

MLB Spring Training 2013

 

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!

 

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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