We raised 'em right!

They really are Red Sox fans....my kids that is. I always wondered if it was just a fad for them or something to do, until last night 12:something am just as the Sox won the world series and were running onto the field the phone rang...we told Tyler to go answer it. I really thought it would be one of Don's siblings including one who was actually there..but no it was Caroline from Washington DC and I heard Tyler say "I almost threw up, I was so nervous..." "I didn't think he would catch that ball at the wall".

Yes they have the hats..not the traditional one their dad wears, faded blue with red, but Yellow for her, Green with a red shamrock on the back for him. She was in Love with Johnny the bad boy Damon with his long hair. When we were on college tours in Boston in 2004, we were at the gates one night as they all got out of their cars for their evening match up with the Yankees and they all waved and acknowledged their fans..Caroline was about 5 feet from Johnny Damon! He of course broke her heart by moving on to the evil empire. Her brother as a little one, wore a redsox baseball jacket everysingle day!! To the point when it was Halloween I said now what are you going to wear and he said "this" I am going to be a base ball player...

But neither had gone through the decades of heartbreaking losses and frustrating endings to seasons that make you a "true Boston fan" and you always go back for more in the spring no matter how stupid or bad they were the season before! I really didn't believe they knew what it meant until this weekend. Tyler would watch the game with the computer on IM'ing his friends or listening to music and Caroline seemed to be interested in just upsetting her Yankee fan friends...but Saturday night I called home and Tyler already had the game on...without us....hmmmmm.
Sunday he text messaged his sister "Big game Care go sox! " And when the final two innings came he moved from his perch upstairs to sit with us downstairs hat on backwards and hands in prayer position. (He told me actually did say one!) Then came her phone call...watching the game in her dorm room!

To them the Red Sox mean a totally different thing, a classy organization, with top notch owners, players and a winning attitude and way! Two world series championships in their short lifetimes, they don't understand the agony and the curse and all that...For them This is what they will tell their kids about the 'great Boston teams of the decade' . Its a new era and
for those of us who lived in the old one....those are the" olden days!"

So to sweet Caroline and Her Brother Ty "Tessie is the royal rooters rally cry...." Love Mom