She swings and she......

So I’m going to give this blog thing a whirl. I get compliments and “you should write a book” encouragements from time to time on an occasional Facebook post that makes my friends laugh. Combine that with a lot of other factors – I’m antsy to do something creative with my life, I have a secret hankering to be a writer, I live with excellent material for those funny posts – and, well, I’ve decided this might just be the outlet for me. Deciding is one thing – doing is another. I’ve thought about this for the better part of year and talked myself out of it for the same amount of time. I had no clear theme for my writings so why bother? I have nothing of interest others will want to read so why bother? I’m just a mom like thousands of others who have funny life stories so why bother? But then I had a mothering moment and decided to just jump in. I’ll either get a hit or I’ll strike out trying, but at least I will have tried. I use the baseball analogy because it is my son’s Little League career that pushed me to try this. He’s a nine year old, machine pitch division veteran who’s moved up to a 9-12 year old league this summer and hitting off other kid pitchers isn’t coming as easily to him as he would like. Like any 21st century Mom armed with a Smartphone, I decided to Google ways to encourage him. Article after article all boiled down to the same thing – you can’t hit the ball if you don’t swing the bat. Hmmm… So here I am writing my first entry. Please be kind to me. And if you’re able to take a smile or a new tidbit of information with you, then my turn at the plate was worth it.