Babies' First Baseball Game
There really is no excuse for this. We have been back in the US for over two years now, and we have a local, hometown baseball team. But we just hadn't taken our poor children out for an evening of watching America's favorite pastime. They were seriously deprived... but that was so last week. Now they have experienced the thrill of a minor league baseball game. We paid six bucks each to sit on the lawn and watch the game. It was worth the price of admission when Mama got a little choked up after a Vietnam veteran invited us all to stand for the national anthem, which was played by a lovely brass band. My kids have stopped asking, "Mom, why are you crying?" because I do it so frequently. (Watching the Summer Olympics has been a complete sob-fest incidentally.) All of the kids decided the best thing about the game was the stadium food. My daughter Emma will totally appreciate my posting this very attracti...