As some of you know, my dad was diagnosed with cancer early last year and passed away in December. Fastpitch softball was a major part of his life when he was younger and he enjoyed coming East to watch DD play the game he loved. When he could no longer travel, last summer some of the DFP family helped DD get picked up on a team in Ohio where my parents live so he could watch her play one last time.
Fast forward to now. My mom arrived in town yesterday, coming to Massachusetts alone for the first time without dad, exactly 4 months to the day he passed. It was an emotional day to say the least. Today, Mimi got to see DD play for her HS team for the first time. In her last at bat of the day, against the reigning state champs she hit her first ever OTF home run with 2-on and 2-outs.
It's a bitter-sweet day. I am so happy that my mom was there to see it; but sad that dad missed it.
He would have been so very proud of her!
Fast forward to now. My mom arrived in town yesterday, coming to Massachusetts alone for the first time without dad, exactly 4 months to the day he passed. It was an emotional day to say the least. Today, Mimi got to see DD play for her HS team for the first time. In her last at bat of the day, against the reigning state champs she hit her first ever OTF home run with 2-on and 2-outs.
It's a bitter-sweet day. I am so happy that my mom was there to see it; but sad that dad missed it.
He would have been so very proud of her!