Mews from Meowmix

Have you ever been so happy and excited about something that you could NOT wipe the smile off your face?  Could NOT stop yelling and clapping?  Could NOT keep from getting on your feet and dancing a jig?  Just such an event took place in my life on Friday night.  I was just one of several spectators, but the memory is forever etched up there in the gray matter!

Picture it.  Singleton Community Center.  Friday night approximately 5:50 p.m.  The Sharks were losing……..I mean, really losing.  They had scored one free throw (I don’t remember that little girl’s name, but it was wonderful!).  Game was nearly over, and the other team had in the neighborhood of 20 points.

It was the Sharks’ ball.  They dribbled and passed a little down the court toward their goal.  HAILEY.  You know Hailey.  She’d had the ball, passed it, and it was passed back to her.  Everybody on our end of the bleachers was yelling, “Shoot! Shoot!”  And she shot————–a good ways away from the goal.  We held our breath.  She’d taken a couple of other shots, as well, and had missed some free throws.  But this ball————————this ball sailed from those 10-year-old hands up in the air and down, straight through the net without touching the rim!!!!!

And the crowd went wild!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You would have thought she’d won a gold medal in the Olympics!    The ONLY regret is that her daddy was at work and did not get to see it.  (I, incidentally, remember a very similar shot that HE made when just a little older and a little further from the goal.)  On the flip side, her Mamaw missed a lot of games last year due to her health.  THIS year, she has missed very few, and she was there Friday night to witness this BB phenomenon, and I wouldn’t take pretty penny for that.  I would have rather missed it than for her to miss seeing her granddaughter make that two points.

I’m still smiling at the memory.  Hailey got so many hugs as soon as the buzzer sounded that she’s probably still squeezed up into a pencil-shape.  It was fantastic.

More weekend smiles:

1. Jaiden (not quite 2) wanted me to pick him up and hold him and love on him when I stopped by to check on the nursery yesterday.
2. Jared’s smile.
3. Phil crunching candy in church.
4. Home-made chicken pot pie.
5. Heavy rains, and the leak seems to have stopped.
6. Blue skies and sunshine this morning.

See you tomorrow.  And may God bless.