June 4 – “A Series of Super Highlights”

News flash from Disneyworld … My chaplain’s cap has been found.  It came in the mail yesterday.  it was kind of dirty, but none the worse for wear, I suppose, seeing it had been trapped in that haunted hotel for a week.  Thank you, Mickey and crew.

On to the other highlights of life yesterday.  Super highlight number two: We went to an Astros baseball game.  Cailyn even went with us.  Her first Astros game, and she was really excited.  She even talked her Daddy into getting her a new shirt to wear.  Carlos Correa replica jersey.  Who would buy their kid a shirt just to wear to a baseball game?  Er … uh … OK, I confess.  It wasn’t me.  But I kind sorta also bought a shirt to wear to the game.  Not a jersey replica, though.  Mine was a very nice polo shirt … with an Astros emblem on the front pocket.  Hey, I can wear it when I’m preaching on Sunday mornings.  So you are not going to find me harassing a certain male parent for doing a little spoiling of his daughter, especially when it comes to the Astros … and clothes shopping. 

Super highlight number three: Our seats were interesting.  Top row.  No, I mean really … top top row.  As far away from the field as they make seats.  We were down the right field line, so we couldn’t actually see the big scoreboard.  On the plus side, though, we had our choice of seats up there.  Oh, and the seats were free.  Thank you, Hitchcock Little League.  Kel and Christina got us the tickets and we were able to sit in the same region as them and their kiddos. 

Super highlight number four: I took my picture.  Not with one of the players, although that would have been fun.  I took my picture with … Mickey Mouse in an Astros uniform.  Him in the uniform, not me.  Oh, and he was a statue.  But he was Mickey Mouse.  Who would have figured?  That critter gets around.

Super highlight number five: Cailyn lost a tooth.  Right in the middle of a big bite of nachos - cheese only, no chili, no jalepenos.  Just lost a tooth right there at the Astros game.  Memorable.

Super highlight number six: we watched the fireworks show after the game.  They do one after every Friday night home game.  The fun thing this time?  Chris discovered that we could also see the show as a reflection on the windows of a nearby office building.  Beautiful. 

Not-so-super highlight number one: We got back home sometime around midnight.  Those blowout games are a lot of fun, but they take a long time.  Oh, the Astros won 12 – 2.  Cailyn went right to sleep.  Actually she slept most of the way home in the car.  But guess what happened around 3:30 a.m.?  Yup.  More thunderstorms rolled in.  Loud ones.  Really hard rain.  Lost power briefly.  I even got up and made the rounds to check on water levels at the doors, downed tree limbs and such.  I finally managed to doze back off by 5:30 or so.  And right at 8 a.m. … Cailyn woke up.  She jumped in bed and said, “There you are.  I was like, where’s DadDad?  He’s supposed to be in the office already.”  It sometimes happens to the best of us …

Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.”

Father, thank you for the excursion to the game last night with the rest of our grandkids.  It put a kind of exclamation point on our all-too brief vacation.  Amen.