Blink {Baseball Photographs}

How often I find myself wishing I had my camera or wishing I was faster to get the "perfect" shot to capture a moment.  But, that is just not realistic, and sometimes I find that I put too much pressure on myself to get the "perfect" picture and I end up missing the moment.

I adore Angie Smith.  Love. Her.  I "met" her (never in person, but that would be A.W.E.S.O.M.E.) after Owen's diagnosis, turns out we were in a similar season together.  I've followed her blog since then, and I've read all of her books.  In her most recent book, Mended, and on her blog she describes a beautiful moment when she wished she had a camera.  Instead she took a mental photograph.  Blink.  In a way only Angie could describe, she goes on to "capture" life's moments, the hard, the beautiful, His gift, all of it, with a mental photograph, a blink.

I am trying to intentionally do that (but capturing a few of these mental photographs on this little blog will surely help this aging Mama remember as well).  Some recent moments that I don't want to forget ... most of which seem to have happened at the ballpark or are baseball related (no surprise since we do seem to spend a lot of family time at the ballpark in the summer).

Jack, at a recent game, on the pitcher's mound, muscling his way out of a tight situation and saving himself with a key strikeout.  A little fist pump (not prideful) and sigh of relief as he leaves the pitcher's mound.

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Samuel, rounding third base and running to home plate with a cheesy grin on his face after hitting a home run in his coach-pitch league.

 

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Lydia, rationalizing with me that she cannot get different clothes on for Jack's game as she doesn't have any arms (said arms are tucked behind her back).

 

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Nora's look of pure happiness as she gets her first icee-pop at the ballpark concessions.

 

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Jack, on the way to pre-game practice, bowing his head with his cap over his face.

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Samuel recovering a fowl ball and turning it in for a quarter which he promptly exchanges for two icee-pops, one for him and one for Lydia.

 

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Lydia and Nora, arms around each other while Lydia "chats" with a little friend at the ballpark who is asking about Nora's lip and Lydia simply explains that Nora's lip was "cut" and is now "fixed".

 

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Lydia sitting on the blanket, chewing her Big League Chew with her baby doll bouncing on her lap, watching her big brother play ball.

 

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Samuel sweetly taking Lydia's hand to walk her to the nearby park for a break from watching Jack's game.

 

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And, there are times when I do have my camera and do capture a few shots such as these.

 

Jack warming up

 

 

Samuel playing catch to pass time

 

 

Sisters waiting for the game to begin

 

Blink ...