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Writer’s Block and Beautiful Music

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Writer’s block is the pits (especially when you are trying to be a good blogger and post more often). But I have another very special feature on one of those super talented blogging baseball wives that I started to tell you all about last month coming up soon, so get excited! Spring Training is going really well, and I can’t believe that we are only two weeks away from real live baseball season.

Nope, I haven’t started packing yet.

Nope, I don’t have a clue where we might be starting the season yet.

Nope, I’m not concerned at all. :-)

So that’s really it for now, just one last thing…I heard this song after dropping Addison off at the field this morning and it really spoke to my heart. I just wanted to share it with you all because I love everything about it.

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!

 

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 ;-)

Journey through the Unknown

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Here we are less than a week away from the end of spring training and our great journey to the destination we will call home for a period of time. You would think we would know where that drive is going to take us by now, but we do not. Yes, you read that right, we still have no clue what team we are going to start the year with. It doesn’t shock me in the least bit, as we are very used to being told everything at the last minute when it comes to baseball. But it is quite frustrating when you are trying to find a place to live and people to live with! Currently Addison is playing spring training games with the AAA team, Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees (although this year they are nicknamed the Empire State Yankees because their home field is undergoing a complete renovation making the team practically homeless, left to bum off all the other teams in the North East). Just because he is on this roster now still does not give us any indication on which way the wind may blow us. He still has about a 50% chance of ending up with the AA team, the Trenton Thunder. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unknowns in this lifestyle. Most plans we make, if we can even make them, have to be made at the very last minute. Planning ahead is a phrase not found in a baseball family’s vocabulary. It does make it difficult, no doubt about that, but it is also extremely liberating. Not many people actually get the opportunity live a life so unsteady, unreliable, unexpected, and exciting. I consider us very fortunate. We get to let go of everything and just have faith in what the future may hold for us.