Jaci's Blog

My grand-mother passed away on January 4, 2010. She was the closest family member of mine other than my parents, so I didn’t take it very well.

   She died because she was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008. I remember January 4, 2010 because I was there with my cousin, aunt and mom when she passed away, my cousin and I were in the room when it happened. We couldn’t believe what were seeing we thought it was our imagination, but it wasn’t. My cousin and I have gotten closer since it happened. We talked to her she could hear us, but she couldn’t say anything to us, it was pretty hard seeing her like this, I could barley stay in the room.

On her visitation we got to see her all dressed up in the coffin, it looked like she about to wake up and just give me a hug. My younger cousin drew a picture for her and we put it by the coffin. My best friend came to the visitation with her mom so that was special to me.

 At her funeral I couldn’t help, but cry my mom told me it was going to be okay, but I didn’t believe her. A lot of my friend’s mom’s came for me and my mom. My grandpa didn’t even look like he was crying I couldn’t believe that he couldn’t cry, but I knew before at one time he most likely did.

Now her birthday is coming up on September 18 it’s going to be hard, she loved butterflies and I want to let a lot of them go on that day. And whenever we see a butterfly we say it’s her and she’s going to bring us good luck!

I love you nana:)

My most memorable moment of this summer was, when I made the Texas Stars. This is a select softball team from Gladewater, Texas. I tried out for the team around mid- July.

    My first practice turned out to be a scrimmage. The team we played was 14 and under and we are only 12 and under so we knew we were going to get creamed! Surprisingly we did pretty well. We didn’t keep score, but you could tell it was close. That night I found out that one of my friends from White Oak was on the team.

    Lucky for me my next practice was normal. I learned the five star drills, and few others which were confusing at first, but after a while I got it down. After about two practices we had our first tournament.

      Our first tournament was in Dangerfield. Once most of us arrived we started to head to the field. Our first game was at 8 o’clock P.M… We were home for all four games, which was good for us because we got last bat, but we lost. The team we played was pretty good the score was 6 to 4 so it was close.

    Our second game we won and we were home again, we found this crazy good luck charm as one of our teammates were up to bat we would scream “Spongebob Squarepants!”, just randomly and our teammate wouldn’t strike out, they would hit or get walked, getting walked isn’t good, but it’s better than getting out. We won out second game, but not by much. This game started at 10 o’clock P.M..

     Our last game for the night was worst of all, this game started at 3o’clock A.M., the umpire was calling everything crazy and wrong as could be. He would call strikes balls, balls strikes, and foul balls fair. Once again we lost this game, but our last game was okay but, we lost once again, but I’m glad I’m on the Texas Stars!