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Wanna know what grief looks like? Oddly enough, this is exactly what it looks like . Odd right? What looks like a completely normal pic of me and my son playing baseball is exactly the moment when I get hit with some sort of grieving moment. It comes in moments you least expect. It will take over in moments you unwarranted and completely overcome you......Savanna called me the other day to inform me that she signed Heath up for t-ball. Normally, it would be something I was completely on board with. In fact, my other boys were in t-ball a year sooner, but I couldn’t find the courage to sign Heath up for anything sports related because of the grief that it caused me. When I found out the sexes of the triplets, I immediately envisioned moments like these with Heath and Hayes in the backyard taking turns on the tee.....competing against each other for who could hit the furthest, or throw the hardest, run the fastest, jump the highest. Things brothers should be doing......I role played the time when they started sports together and because of that I have not been able to face this moment when it was just Heath we signed up. And yet, somehow in all of this I look at this picture with Hayes crib in the background as I teach Heath the proper swinging technique and find this inexplicable ray of light shining in and can’t help but think Hayes is giving me a hint when I need it most. A hint when the grief hits me the hardest. #dealingwithloss #grief #dads #boyslife #tball #baseballdads #fatherhood #parenting #dadlife #baseball