My seven-year-old granddaughter, Betsy, is playing softball for the first time ever this spring. She really likes sports and watches basketball, baseball, and football games with her daddy all the time. Yet, on the other hand, she is a girlie girl. She loves dolls, jewelry, buying clothes, and, most of all, getting her nails done. So, how can you be a softball player and be a girlie girl?
Well, the first step in the process is buying a glove. Not just any glove, mind you, but a lavender one with pink trim. I just know that this accessory is going to help Betsy do well this first season. She does have a mind of her own, so when her daddy took her shopping and tried to talk her into a regular glove, she would have no part of it.
I took her to her second practice a couple of weeks ago, and it looks like the whole team is a bunch of girlie girls. Betsy’s glove did not stand out among the other pink and purple gloves, and it looked to me that Betsy was more into the game than most of her teammates (that’s her Mimi talking). She does like to practice with her daddy so maybe that will help her get out of the girlie mode and into the softball player mode.
She had her first game this week, and they lost eleven to nothing. I didn’t get to go, but she called me and told me the score and said that she was sure that they would do better next time. I asked her if she enjoyed playing, and she said she loved it. It would be good if as a grown-up I could feel that optimistic so quickly after a bad situation.
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