Life of Wry

May’s a busy month.

For starters, it’s Little League season.  Which alone is big.  But if your little baseball fiend also plays on a travel team, and also takes private lessons, you are juggling up to five practices a week and lots of games.  For example, we’ve had eight games in each of the last two weeks… THAT kind of lots.

It’s also the end of the school year, which means all the end of school year stuff: finals and final projects, the last dance of the year, special events and parties, the end of year band performances (two this week).  All that.

People with lots of kids?  I’m not really sure how that works.

Anyway.  Here’s my nearly stealth shot of Peter in his bathroom (the only thing missing is the sideways sneer I got when I took the picture).  It’s about 6:45pm and he’s got exactly three minutes to get dressed and ready for tonight’s band concert, after having just finished playing game #1 of THE LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYOFF TOURNAMENT (yes, shouting, cuz it’s a big honking deal) which happened immediately after school today (which meant I had to meet him at the field with his uniform and he had to change in the bathroom).  So never mind the hat hair.. and the mustard on his mouth (from dinner between innings in the dugout).

(Oh, and they won their first game.  Yay.)

That kind of day.

I know our family’s one-kid schedule is very manageable, especially since one of us doesn’t work exactly, and the other one of us works from home.  We’ve got mathematical advantage plus flexibility.  Insane are the families with 2 kids and up, two working parents, or divided families.  Those are way harder.  Hats off to you guys.

I’m still thinking, man, summer can’t come soon enough.