October 27 – “Night on the town?”

After a long day of work we decided it was time for a real night on the town.  Well, a real grandparents’ night on the town.  After all, we had just spent an entire romantic weekend together attending one grandson’s birthday party and another’s soccer game.  What could be better than …

 

First, we drove to LaMarque to meet up with Christina and three of their youngsters.  Stop one was three-year-old Ezra’s karate class.  They have the little ones bouncing and running and jumping and bowing and hai-yah-ing just like the big kids.  They do their best to instill a real sense of respect for themselves, each other, their friends and family, the instructor, and even the country.  That’s pretty impressive in itself.  But then … they are just so cute.  And the Littles seemed to be having the time of their lives.  They could finally say they were “in karate” just like the big kids.

 

Next stop was up in Pasadena.  Texas, not California.  Jachin and Micah had a baseball game.  It was a thriller, too.  The good guys came back from a 7-1 deficit to tie the game.  That one run?  Jachin scored it after reaching on a hit up the middle.  The shortstop fielded it but was unable to throw him out.  They continued to scrap back into it.  Micah lined out to the third baseman once and then advanced a runner with a ground out.  Jachin’s other at bat saw a runner advanced to third with only one out.  Finally, the seventh run scratched the plate, and the score was tied.  Then one more run snuck across the plate, giving us the lead going into the last inning.  Sure enough, however, the bad guys managed to get a run in to tie, and our guys just couldn’t score again in the bottom half.  The game ended in a tie, 8-8.  Well done, boys. 

 

We made it home around eleven o’clock, collapsing into bed near midnight.  See?  A night on the town.  Not our town.  But it was sure fun to see the kiddos having fun.  I think we are past our prime at that whole staying up late thing, though …

 

Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

 

Father, thank you for those little guys – and the ones who are now not so little.  Keep them safe while they pursue their athletic dreams.  Amen.