We are BACK!

Hello blog world!

After a 5 month hiatus from the blog, I am back!

I am writing this post from the comfy room of my new "home" for the next couple of weeks. We have moved to a place called Spring Training and it is time to get season 2012 on the road! I cannot express to you the gratefulness my heart is spewing with right now. I am literally full of joy and am so happy to be back in West Palm Beach, FL.

When I arrived (because I arrived before Jess did, due to having to fly on separate airlines) it felt so surreal. The last time we were here it was Spring Training 2009! Uhh yeah....3. WHOLE. YEARS. 3 whole, crazy, tragic, beautiful, terrible, shocking (the list could go on for days) years! I am happy to say it looks the same exact way it did when we left, except no construction on the highways :) Jess shares my enthusiasm of course, and couldn't be more happy to be back. He is in minor league camp which is a first for him but hey! you have to do everything once right?!? That's how I choose to look at it anyway. He, well....not so much, but in this sport situations like Jess' are all to normal. He will be back there one day, in the far away land of BIG LEAGUE camp that exists just on the other side of the building. He will, I, you, and everyone who knows Jess knows he will.

Changing gears a little, today was physicals day. This is where all pitchers and catchers get their physicals done, bullpens caught/thrown and a workout in. Kind of a routine type day that starts at around 6:30 and ends around 4. They have the guys come in groups so it's not just plain pandemonium with everyone coming in at once. Jess was in the 9am group but my husband was too excited to wait until 9 for his first day of work for the 2012 season. When 6am came around he was like a bull in a china cabinet ready to go! So he arrived a little early to his physical, better early than later right? Jess said he got in and got everything he needed to done. Later in the afternoon he said he threw a bullpen and he said he threw very well. Im so glad he did good since it was the first day!

There are a ton of young guys with a mix of who Jess came up with in the Cardinals organization in minor league camp. Jess said it makes him feel old but I tell him not to pay any attention to that. Easier said than done, Im sure! It is what it is though and I am just thankful that he is able to do what he loves to do for a job. It is hard and very trying on your mental and physical state, but in a blink of an eye careers are over. Ive spent the last 2 1/2 years wondering why Jess? Why did all this hardship have to happen to him? Im not doing that anymore, our lives are good, we are alive, healthy and have more than we could ever need. Its time to enjoy the ride and this is just the season to do it!

So here is to Season 2012, may you be the best, funnest, craziest, wildest ever!

Play Ball!

Love,
E

P.s.
Posts will be back to normal now that we are back in season!