It's in the drink!!!!!

It's the Monday night of All-Star Week......One of our favorite nights of the year. It's the night that we all sit in my room, piled up on our couch and the floor, and watch the Home Run Derby.....and we are having a blast.

We're into the second round now and one of my kids favorites, David Ortiz or 'Big Papi' as he's known in the baseball world, is up to bat. And every time he hits a home run my boys yell out...."It's in the drink!" (That would be the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.)

PNC Park is right on the river and if a ball is hit hard enough to right field it will land in the River and the kids are loving it.

It's 10:00 pm. Julia has fallen asleep on our bed....Daniel and Joshua are in and out with watching the Derby (when David Ortiz and Ryan Howard hit) and playing with their Pokemon cards......and Trey? Well, Trey is sitting here on the couch with me and hasn't moved since the Derby began. At times, he's even reached over and grabbed my hand to hold it. We've snuggled. We've tried to shush the other kids so we can hear the TV as well as see it. We've had a great night of mother/son time....just chilling and watching the Home Run Derby.

Tomorrow night is the All-Star Game and because of a meeting I have, we won't be able to watch it together. But rest assured, we'll be rooting the National League with all the vim and vigor we can muster. GO PHILLIES!!!! And even though my Phils are stinkin' up the joint this season, they have three players on the National League All-Star squad. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Tom Gordon. So, all is not lost on this season.

It's a most wonderful time of the year.