xander's last baseball game was scheduled for saturday, october 25th @ 8am!
well, it rained most of the day on friday, so by friday evening the powers that be had cancelled all of the following morning games and most of the afternoon ones as well. an email went out advising that there would be notifications soon of rescheduled games. the email came in later that night...xander's last game was now scheduled for SUNDAY @ 3:00. i cried. i was so sad for him. and then i spent most of the night trying to justify, to find a way to let him play in the last game of his first season. not only was the last game now scheduled for sunday, but his team party had been scheduled for the following sunday, and he wouldn't be able to attend that either. but in the end, the way i was raised (and todd as well) won out. we had already told xander before he went to bed that his game in the morning was cancelled. so the next morning we told him that it had been rescheduled for "tomorrow". his comment "i can't play tomorrow. tomorrow is sunday." i cried again. and then i realized it and he started to cry. i hated it for him. but he was stronger than i thought he would be, as he usually is, and stronger than me. cause when we was done crying he was over it. we talked about the game a few more times that weekend, wondering if they won and still bummed that he hadn't been able to play. but he accepted it, and knew that what we had decided was right - the lord has asked us to keep the sabbath day holy, and xander did.
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