United we stand and a whiz bang day

Greetings y'all ,

Well yesterday was a successful first day at school . Some bumps in the road but a success. The only way my son does not have a successful day is through his decision not to accept personal responsibility and not realizing I am united with and stand behind his staff. He tried stretching it yesterday and didn't accept responsibility for his actions and therefore tried acting out. He will learn , because he's a bright boy, has a great staff and his dad will reinforce, that school time means more structure but more  positive structure too.

So after school , as per my promise ,we played more baseball. I confess I was upset by the way Ace handled himself at the end of the school day. I gave him no quarter and cut him no slack. I was a stern coach. It seemed to work though. He gleefully shagged fly balls and accepted direction at the plate. He understands my incremental coaching method. We spent a long time just pivoting the hips to gain pop and power at the plate. When I felt he was ready he drove several balls into the outfield and on the last pitch scorched one up the middle off my ear. Ok that was scary . I saw the seams, I read the print on the ball , I heard the crack of the bat and the whiz of the air flowing over the sphere as it headed toward my mug. I had two thoughts .1. Wow great swing . That Alabama stride style and hip pivot has really worked and increased his bat speed. 2. Duck!!!! Unfortunately I had those thoughts in that order . 

Ok ok I deserved to get nailed by my progeny after giving him multiple baseball boo boos this summer. Once i got back up I laughed and even high fived him ad complimented him on his textbook technique. He says he never saw a person fall flat out in real life, just like the guy in "Major League" who drank Jojubu's  (sp?) rum and gets beaned by a bat.  In all seriousness though Ace shot out to the mound to ensure is old man was ok and I'm fine.  

We followed that with a little tennis and a lot of reading. He got his first two Black Eye Susan 2013-2014 Award nominee books out of the library and read one last night. So we finished with a snuggle, a cuddle and a good read. 

Thanks for reading again today folks !