Today I spent the day with my hubby. We made a highlight video of my sons baseball team from this past weeks games. I was so excited to make share this video with the boys and their parents. Since J'Dee is a senior this year, as parents we all committed to do something.
Back in February when all the parents met I was in a pretty rough place physically. My husband went to this meeting alone and only volunteered what he knew he would be able to do and what I could do.
Before this disease I was the type of person to help with team parities, team b-b-cues, team awards, and even senior night. I was pretty much a crazy woman trying to be everything for everyone all of the time! Since having this illness I have learned to limit a great deal of things. It has been hard to say no because inside I still have that desire to help do it all! What has really helped me is to focus on what I CAN DO and not so much on what I can't. When I take the time to guard myself and protect my own health it allows me to save all of my energy and strength for what matters most in my life.
So my hubby knew I loved to do movies using videos and pictures. He knew that would be something I could do. He volunteered to take pictures of the season and told them his wife would make the team video for the varsity/ senior team. I was excited to be able to be a part of things for our sons senior year.
Since starting to improve these past few weeks I have been so blessed to be able to make it to every game. My hubby has been taken pictures of the boys, I have been taking video. How grateful I am for being so fortunate to be able to do this. Because we have had so many pictures and video each week from their three games, we thought it would be a great way to motivate and inspire the boys to create a highlight video of the week. We made our first one last week and the boys and parents loved it.
In fact, one of the parents missed their son's home run because they could not make it to the game and his mom just cried as she was able to watch it for the first time on our highlight video.
I told her the reason I wanted to do this was not only to motivate the boys but also because last year I missed a great deal of my sons games due to this illness and I know what it is like to not be able to be there for each game! This was my way of giving back something that I can do! It really makes my day knowing my little contribution has helped others.
Here is the video we finished from this past weeks games!
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