I guess we're doing something right...

Today was one of those days when you sit back and look at your kid and realize that just maybe you're doing okay. Today was opening day for the boys for baseball. There is an opening day ceremony for all the teams. One of the events for the ceremony is that they give an award to one kid on each of last year's teams for sportsmanship. The one kid that exhibited the best qualities of a team player: respect for others, fairness, grace in winning and in losing, a striving spirit and courtesy. M (12) was given this award, of all the kids on that team, his coaches chose him. I was so proud of him. Actually, proud doesn't begin to cover the feelings that I had in my heart at that moment when his name was called and I saw him jog up there. It made me stop and really consider what a great kid he is. Yes, he's a bit on the sloppy side and leaves his clothes all over the floor which includes his uniform which he needs cleaned for his next game, and yes, he forgets library books at school for days on end, and yes, he is so forgetful about doing chores but that's just being 12. He's played football and baseball this year, played 2 instruments, had a small neighborhood job for a couple of the neighbors with dogs, and been on honor roll all year. Yeah, he is a good kid, a really good kid.