Children Playing

Many years ago when our subdivision wasn’t fully occupied yet, there was a vacant lot across our house where kids would play all kinds of outdoor games.  There was one game that would usually catch not only my attention but other parents’ as well.   And that was kiddy baseball.  The little boys and girls would be so active pitching, catching running and screaming.  It was like the real game on the Major League Baseball, (of course, this is an overstatement!)  It’s just that the kids’ equipments were composed of a short branch of a tree for the baseball bat and corrugated board for the baseball gloves.  It was fun to watch those kids doing their game with their makeshift Baseball Gloves and baseball bats.

Twenty or more years after, it is quite hard for me to accept the fact that some of those boys and girls who were playing baseball before are now fathers and mothers of little  toddlers and kids. Some of these children who are now young parents, even made my own children Godparents of their own.  Which gave me some puzzles to solve. “What would they give these Godchildren of theirs for Christmas?!”  I know for a fact that giving them what’s on my mind is unsuitable for them yet.  But definitely, when they grow a bit bigger I would suggest wrapping some Baseball Gloves and bats for them. And probably the old scene could roughly playback.