The Bag Lady

The Beaver played his first game of the season last night and with it out came my baseball bag. It is the quintessential baseball mom's bag. This Eddie Bauer canvas bag has six large side pockets, which contain in no particular order, sunglasses, sunscreen, hairbrush (which you really don't need cuz you wear a ball cap), hand lotion and hand sanitizer, gum, lots and lots of double-bubble gum, seeds, (as in sunflower), water bottles. Then there is the large roomy interior part of the bag which holds a small first aid kit, more gum and seeds (for the guys), an umbrella (we don't like to think about that), the score pad with pencils and sharpener and then finally we have the inside zipped security pocket which holds the important stuff, like money, keys and lip gloss! I've been hauling this bag to more games in the past four years than I care to remember, and it holds up like it's made of steel!

One time, I had to leave a game early due to illness and Ward stayed on. After the game, when folks were heading to their cars a couple of baseball moms came running and shouting after him, yelling at him, arms flailing, "you've left the bag, you've left the bag, June will kill you!" I shudder to think what would have happened to Ward if he'd returned home without that bag!

Oh, btw, they won last night 4-2. The Beave had a pretty good night with three hits, one of them a triple (which he groused should have been a homerun, stupid big field!).