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The Reason This 1 Mom Is "Homesick" Is Not What You'd Expect

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Kids grow up really fast, like, really fast, and this fact sunk in for mom Lauri Walker in an unlikely place - her son's last baseball game of the season.

The blogger behind Mama Needs a Nap shared a sweet Facebook post about how her son's baseball season ending meant a lot more to her than just retiring a new jersey.

"I know some may find it ridiculous. I'm surprised myself," she wrote. "As I unpack from our trip this morning I am fighting tears as I take baseball uniforms to the laundry for the last time this year."

Walker described how the fact that her son is actually getting older and closer to leaving the nest is pretty much everywhere if you look hard enough.

"He's worn out another pair of baseball cleats so those will go away, too, and soon I'll stop cleaning sunflower seeds out of the lint trap in the dryer," she said.

And while this mom is aware that the end of a sports season doesn't mean her kid is done with the game forever, it definitely marks the passage of time. And that tends to move fast when you're shuffling from one child's activity to another.

"Certainly not the end of baseball for him because he'll play every chance he gets, but it is time for a break," she said. "He needs it, whether he wants it or not. It's time for another sport and other activities, but there will be winter training and pick-up games and whiffle ball."

She emphasizes that she's not sad because her kid is, but rather she's emotional because she "loved every second" of seeing the joy that baseball brought her kid all season long. She enjoyed watching him spending time with his friends doing something he was so passionate about.

"So today, I'm a little weepy and a little homesick and that's OK . . . Because they don't call it home plate for nothing."



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