Sharing moments with your kids are the things that create memories. They won’t remember how much you did for them (perhaps) or how much money you spent on them; but they will remember when you shared pivotal and important moments with them as they grew up. 3am this morning was one such moment! MGirl’s baseball friends, the 3 that were selected to play for Australia, were taking on Venezuela (and the rest of the Australian team) in the Gold Medal Game for the World Championships!! Baseball doesn’t get a lot of press in Australia, and women’s baseball gets even less! All week the Aussie team had been battling their way through the rounds, knocking off USA, Canada and Japan and they were now locked in the playoff for gold. The only way she’d been able to “watch” these games, was to follow a web feed that had a virtual game being played on the internet. The little stick figures would move around the field according to what the scorers entered into their computer at the game, live! It is very cute to watch it on the internet, but frustrating with no atmosphere! MGirl wanted to watch the game and I couldn’t let her sit up and watch it alone! So she tip toed into my bedroom at 3.10am with the laptop and we snuggled under the doona waiting for the opening pitch! Only trouble was, it didn’t start for another 45 minutes. We dozed on and off until the start and watched the game, kind of live!
Unfortunately the Aussie team wasn’t able to beat Venezuela, but did take out the Silver medal, the country’s highest result to date! It was a special moment we shared, and MGirl will remember it for a long time. Hopefully, one day, she will be there too and I won’t be watching it on the internet but live and in person…perhaps in 2012!
The game finished at 5.30am and we both went straight back to sleep and rolled out of bed at 7.30am. I was happy while getting ready for work and did a little dance in the bathroom…because my legs didn’t hurt, at all! I couldn’t believe how only a week ago the Sunday run had sidelined me for 3 days, and today I didn’t feel anything in comparison. I was very happy and surprised…my legs were adjusting already, though my glutes were a little sore; I had to have something to remind me how hard we had worked!
With nothing happening tonight, it was nice to go home and have a chance to cook and eat with the kids…something that is happening less frequently now that they are growing up and our family life is so busy!
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