DiStefano Daily Diversions: Just a playin' and a pickin'!

WOW! They let my little man play ball! How about that? Pitch too! You see, Leighton WAS the starting first baseman for the junior varsity team but he wanted to play catcher. That is the position he has always played, but, because he also plays football he isn't involved with the baseball team all year. When baseball season rolled around he started asking the coach if he could play catcher. Coach said no...Leighton kept at it. I told him, "Leigh, your coach is going to play you in the position that he thinks best helps your team. Baseball is a team sport and you just need to play the position your coach wants you to play." Logical right? Team spirit and all of that. Listen to your coach, etc. But, Leigh is the baby and he, well...he likes getting his way. So, one day the JV coach took this issue to the head coach. What did the head coach say? "You really want to play catcher Leighton?" Leighton answered yes...coach says, "You know there are two other catchers right?" Leighton: "yes sir..." Coach: "give him some gear then..." So you know where that left him...riding the pine. And then...then...in their infinite wisdom...the coaching staff decided to make him a pitcher. Go figure! I think he has done a great job going out and having a good attitude and having enough confidence to get the job done and Friday he got his first win.

We are proud of you Little Man but hope that you might have learned something from this experience. And hopefully if you are ever in a position to be a coach you will remember what your Momma told you and not your baseball coach! :-)

Remember this guy?

That was his game face. This is Leighton's...so close to his brother's style, lol!

So, today I said I was going to stay home and clean house...but, I thought it might be more fun to go pick strawberries!

This is at Froberg's Farm in Alvin, Texas. I had been hearing about it a lot lately on the Michael Berry show and it just sounded like so much fun. Lots of berries to pick + a fruit stand with frest fruits and veggies and not to mention a smoke house! How could you go wrong? It helped to have a willing pickin' buddy!

Beautiful berries and oh, so yummy!! It was so hard to leave all those unpicked berries behind, LOL!

Yum!

And of course there were a lot of strawberry photo ops too!

We done good girl!

All the proof you need to know that it is possible to be a compulsive shopper at the strawberry patch! Guess what everyone is getting in their stocking this year for Christmas? You got it...strawberry jam it is!