By Kristin Sullivan 
Spending hours on end on a ballfield on Mother’s Day may not sound ideal to most, but the ones who get it know that it’s about so much more than watching young kids play ball.
It’s about the instant bonds you make with families who end up becoming like your own family.
It’s being surrounded by people who cheer for your kid louder than you do yourself.
It’s about being lucky enough to have a pack of moms who will care for your child in your absence and send you pics and videos of what you are missing when you can’t be there.
It’s about spending 15 hours on a cold, rainy weekend with people who hate the weather just as much as you, but you couldn’t pay them to be anywhere else, and you’re side by side with them through the good and bad.
It’s about these relationships going so much further than a dusty ballfield.
It’s about simultaneously falling in love with a game because your kid is having the time of their life playing it.
It’s about your boys watching women lift them, and most importantly, each other up.
Love you, my mamas. These are the days, and how lucky we are to do it all together.
by Alicia Searl 
by Mehr Piracha Lee 
