Breaking Out of My Comfort Zone

It has been a while since I sat and wrote a blog. I check on the site daily though. So here I go.

Tonight was a big night for some of my son's friends. They were playing their first playoff game tonight. I was told about this game well in advance and I thought we would attend the game as a family and hangout with other people we knew. Even my co-worker hyped up the game at work all weeklong. So I was ready to hang out, be cold and cheer the team on. At least until my son told me he had basketball tryouts tonight until 8:30. Well there was my evening of high school football shot down the drain.

My son goes to practice and the rest of us go to sleep. I am sitting at my computer and I get a text on my phone that Kyle had scored a touchdown. My co-worker just had to rub it in. He even offered to pay for all of us to get into the game. What a fan! I would have liked to have seen that too, you know? Then my co-worker tells me the 3rd quarter was just starting. It was about 9p.m. now. My son had come home and I am like, "Do you want to go to the game?" His response was, "Yeah, you can drop me off." I am like, "No, do you want to go the game? I am going too." He gives me this look like "Are you for real?"

See I like to kick it at home. I don't venture far often. Even when my son's AAU team and families get together I seldom come out. It's just how I have been over the years. Tonight though I thought about Kyle and the other players and how important our families have been to each other since the boys were in the 3rd grade. This moment tonight was big for everyone that attended. So I, battling a respiratory infection for days, put on my warm clothes, grabbed a handful of peppermints and headed out to a high school football game with my son. And they won!!!!! Go Cowboys!!!

Tonight I can say that I did something that I don't normally do and I think that I will do that more often. Step out of my comfort zone that is. Life definitely goes on as I sit at home watching t.v. and reading my favorite magazines. It was a little nippy out tonight but I got to see the boys play a good game and I reconnected with families I had not seen since last Christmas. I think I even shocked some people. Believe me I am one of last people that people expect to see out. I had fun and I feel good. Well....... not that good. So now I am going to get my teaspoon of prescription cough medicine and get deep into my comfort zone.

10 days til 40 and I am doing fine!!

Lindar