With the passing of another year, it’s only natural to think back to your favorite holidays and Senior Helpers would like to know what made them special. Share with us a holiday tradition at our seasonal website: www.myholidaytraditions.com. After sharing your tradition, you will be entered to win an opportunity for free airfare ($1,500!) to keep the traditions strong —another way to make this holiday season just as memorable.
Amanda A’s Thanksgiving tradition: Baseball Collecting
On Thanksgiving morning when my brothers and I were kids, my dad would yell out “let’s go to the baseball fields!” We all knew what that meant: scouting the woods and collecting a ton of baseballs! While my mom and grandma strategized and coordinated their battle plan for the cooking of the night’s meal, the rest of us bundled up nice and warm and rooted around for our baseball mitts down in the basement. Dad would empty out this giant green bucket, pile in our found gloves and down the street we’d troop to the fields, seeing who could blow the biggest white puff of air! We would spend the morning happily combing the frosty woods for lost and forgotten baseballs and softballs that had sailed over the fences as home runs or foul balls. When we were confident we’d gotten them all, we would play catch until our frozen fingers forced us back home.
The next spring and summer, when it was baseball season again, we always had a ready supply of balls that we had collected ourselves. For me, whenever I grabbed a ball from that big green bucket, I’d think back on the fun (and chilly!) day when we found them!
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