ESPN sports report

Quinn's baseball team did very well tonight. I have no idea what the score was... I forgot to ask Pakka. He keeps track with rocks on the ground because there is no "official" score keeping. I think we probably won. Quinn played very well. He played at the pitcher's mound and at short-stop. He caught a couple of fly balls and got people out at first base. He also had 2 hits tonight so I think the lucky birthday helmet is back in action!
...Post-date: Pakka says his team lost! See how close I paid attention to the score?

After the game we drove over to Madison's tournament game... just in time to see most of the last inning. I guess we were behind by about 4 going into it but ended up losing by the 10 run rule in the 5th. It seemed like they lost by "a-lot to not-a-lot"... I don't know what the score was there either. See how my mind is getting numbed from keeping all of these sports scores straight??? Nine games in the last 1 week will do that to a mother. I got to see Madison bat the last time... enough to see her get hit by a FAST pitcher! She got hit on the right forearm (she bats left handed). Out of all the girls, MY girl is the LAST one I want to get hit... for obvious maternal reasons but also because last year she had a tooth knocked out by a wild pitch and ever since then she's been afraid in the batter's box!!! This certainly isn't going to help. If I have my facts straight, this pitcher from Middlebury takes lessons year round from a Notre Dame coach and at 11 years old, pitches around 44 mph. So, that pitch had to hurt. My girl took her base and held back her tears until she got back to the dugout, to an icepack. I just hope this doesn't scare her off in the future. When I played softball as a kid, we certainly weren't facing pitchers with 44 mph pitches!! She's a tough athlete... even if she is only 10 1/2!

A softball cheer often heard from the dug-out...

We don't wear no mini skirts (echo)...
We just wear our softball shirts. (echo)...
We don't drink no lemonade (echo)...
We just drink our gatorade (echo)...
We don't play with barbie dolls (echo)...
We just play with bats and balls! (echo)...

Well, you should see my house after this last week... OK, I'm glad you are NOT going to see my house. We are in a state of chaos here. I do have LOTS of clean laundry from washing uniforms each night but I have loads and loads to fold. Have I mentioned that my dishwasher is limping along? Only the bottom sprayer is spraying so nothing on the top rack gets clean. Dishes are taking twice as long now. We need to get a new dishwasher that's obvious but we need to find the time to go get one!!!!!!!!!

Pakka is having a total knee replacement tomorrow (on Wed) around 1230 so pray for him will ya?... for a successful surgery, free of infection, pain relief, fast recovery... ya know, all of it. Thanks.

I must get to bed earlier tonight, I must, I must....
I must get to bed earlier tonight, I must, I must....
I must get to bed earlier tonight, I must, I must....