Moments - Cherished Ones

When Matthew was a little leaguer, his Grampa gave him a personalized birthday gift. It was a cassette tape (remember those?) of a baseball announcer calling a game with the crowd cheering in the background. The voice announced Matthew was at bat and then revealed the names of me, his dad and his grandparents proudly watching in the audience. He then called the at bat counts before Matthew’s monster home run into right field stands! What a great gift that was. 

One day I watched him sitting away from me on his bedroom floor listening to his cherished tape. When he turned his head and saw me, tears were streaming down his tender cheeks and he passionately said,”Mom, I wanna be in the big leagues!” My little baseball freak no longer plays baseball but, believe it or not, he is now in the big leagues!