Check One Off

It's not often as a parent or a husband that the average guy gets to make the dreams of his family come true. This weekend my family was blessed enough to go to New York to see the Yankees play with a stop @ Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia to catch an Eagles preseason game. If you know my family well...or maybe not so well...you know that we love the Yankees and that somehow Clark has been in love with the Eagles since he was in elementary school.


The trip was the best and worst of many things. It seemed we spent an eternity in the car, but my guys sat and talked like they never do at home. Our teams were at their home fields...hallowed ground to us all especially w/ Yankee Stadium soon to be no more...but they both lost their games. The hotel was comfortable and provided a nice getaway...but still wasn't home. The subway was the only way the only sensible way to get around, but the last subway car we rode was the only place with "sheep girl" AND the crazy guy randomly warning of the "slavery of 'his people' by BET", bragging about his infinite "energy" that's been building since he "created the world with a word", and threatening to stab with a lavendar mechanical pencil whoever it was that told him to shut up.

Anyway, we were very happy to get to do what we did this weekend. To my sensible side, it seemed like much too far to go and far too much to spend. But sometimes you have to turn a deaf ear to your sensible side. Your sensible side will sometimes leave you with regrets...maybe a few extra dollars they can bury with you...maybe a few less miles on your car...but sometimes with regrets.

I hope coming out of this my boys will always remember this weekend. I hope that Clark will always remember getting to Lincoln Financial Field even if McNabb, Westbrook, Dawkins, or Favre (w/ the Jets) didn't even break a sweat. I hope Mason will tell James III (my grandson someday...there's no rule that the Sr., Jr, and III have to be in consecutive generations) that he got to see Yankee Stadium.

More than that, I hope they see that sometimes you just do things...not because it makes sense....not because it it's convenient....sometimes you do things it's the only chance you have.

This is true, I think, for everything in our lives. It doesn't make sense to stop and help someone sometimes...but that is the only chance you get. It may not be convenient to put your life on hold for someone for a few hours, but it may be the only chance you get to be there for them.

It doesn't have to make sense to be the right thing to do.

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p.s. Don't think that every post will end like this and have some spiritual meaning. I didn't intend for this one to get here...it just did. And that's OK with me.