Shortstopmom--When was the last time you went to WalMart? Did you see the cute baseball Easter baskets and the baseball Easter eggs? Oh, and the baseball tote bags? I thought of you

Better hurry quick though, all of us baseball moms are going to gobble them up.

LOL Son's games have been cancelled for tomorrow, so I was planning on consoling myself with some shopping... I'll have to add Walmart to the list!

BBFam!!!
I saw your post and giggled outloud!! Coffee spewed everywhere! ha ha!!! Ya made my morning!!!

I love it!! Baseball Easter baskets???.....baseball Easter eggs??? ( beginning to hyperventilate! ) ....baseball tote bags???
( my brain is startin' ta tingle!!! ) Oh my goodnesss,....I am sooo there!!!!

Zippin by there tomorrow! This shortstopmom is no longer the procrastinator!!! I'm on it!! Thanks soo much for the heads up!!!

Sounds REALLY cute!!!
You are too cool for school!!!
THANK YOU!!!

You can also try target--they have two different styles shown online:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_13/602-22...se=1&asin=B000J5QAUU

Bordeaux ...

Now that would also be very cute for a centerpiece at a banquet ... filled with baseball related items like peanuts and sunflower seeds, maybe have a real sunflower or two 'planted' int the bucket. Or it could be used as a 'basket' at an auction, maybe filled with tickets to a MLB game, and other baseball related goodies.

Makes me wish my not-so-youngin' were still young. Guess I'll have to wait for grandchildren ...

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Makes me wish my not-so-youngin' were still young. Guess I'll have to wait for grandchildren

Yes, that is kind of the way I'm thinking these days too .....

Shortstopmom is squealing loudly once again! You gals never cease to amaze me!

Outta my way people,..I am a baseball mom on a mission!!
( ~ insert silly Super Hero music here ~ )

Zippin', zingin', and zoomin' through Kansas City I go ( cape flowing and bling-bling tiara secured in place! ) bound and determined to scoop up all the baseball Easter stuff while its still hot on the shelves! No stinkin' lousey snow or -7 degree weather shall stop me!

Gotta go and snag those " Targey " baseball baskets for indeed just that,...center pieces for the end of the year baseball banquet!! Tooo cute! How perfect can ya get??? Perfection I tell ya,....they are pure perfection!! Walmart,..I am on my way to you tooo!!! Swooooosh,...they will not sell out before shortstopmom gets there. I dare them I tell ya,..I dare them!!


Now,.....if I can only figure out a strategic plan on how to show up with them,..and NOT get suckered appointed into heading up the entire decoration committee.
( Perhaps they should just suddenly appear * poof * on the Coaches desk at lunch time with a note from the annonymous banquet decoration fairy! tee- hee! )

Thank you ladies!!!

SSM--I think those baseball baskets are only available online from target--very easy one-click ordering via an Amazon account--hope that saves you an icy pursuit in vain. But I'm sure you can find other fun stuff anyway while you're out and about--I love the visual image!

Our planned trip this week to Boston for a college tour for my daughters was a victim of ice and JetBlue, so we leave shortly for a car trip to visit southern California colleges instead (flexible people here). Fun to take the earmuffs and long underwear out of the suitcases and replace them with flip flops and tank tops! It was near 70 here yesterday, although a bit cooler today. Anyone who wants to come visit, let us know!

Bordeaux ...

Dare you share what schools she is looking at down here? Is she an athlete as well? Just curious.

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Bordeaux ...

Dare you share what schools she is looking at down here? Is she an athlete as well? Just curious.

I'm curious too Bordeaux. My daughter is a HS junior and we're planning on beginning to visit starting in early April. I'd forgotten what a special time this can be.... get to spend time with your child exploring and visioning their futures. Mine isn't an athlete, so it's changed how we're going about choosing schools to visit, but exciting nonetheless!!

Hi to both of you--actually it is two of them! Twins. Happy to share and maybe we can exchange ideas! I'll send you both a PM as I don't want to overly hijack this thread. If anyone else wants to join in, just let me know and I'll add you.

But in quick summary--down here, we are just looking at 3 schools for this first trip: Scripps, Pomona, and UCLA. Also doing a bit of touristy stuff as believe it or not, we haven't ventured to LA with the girls before! They are not athletes, they both have different interests.

P.S. I HAVE placed my order for ONE baseball Easter bucket!!

Yes sir indeeedy,..I made my super sonic shortstopmom trip to Targey yesterday,..and not only did I find the baseball baskets ( which by the way come in a nice variety of other sports also! ) but I also found an adorable baseball nightlight and even a humidifier in the shape of a baseball,..along with an cute cute hi bachi style baseball shaped grill for tailgating!
Must be some kind of Target new Spring decor theme,... I was impressed,...and left with a cart full and a big ol' smile on my face!
Oh and P.S..... Ya just couldn't go wrong with their, funky but fun, $1 bin St. Patricks day decor,....green glittered hats, sequined
" Kiss me I'm Irish " sashes, cute socks, earring, etc.
...and thats no blarney!!

Oh Bourdeaux,...

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I'll send you both a PM as I don't want to overly hijack this thread. I

You're not hijacking this thread at all,...were simply transitioning from conversation to conversation,..as if we were all sittin' around the kitchen table having coffee!

Please continue!!! I have a daughter too and am all for taking notes about what to expect during college visits with her!!! Thats going to be a whole new world of territory to cover when we get to cross that bridge. I'll need all the help I can get!! ha!

Just got back from Target!! Bought my "Plether" Baseball Easter basket and "All-Star" Sports eggs! I forwarded the Target link to my other sports mom friends - the s****r, golf, and football baskets are darling! Didn't make out quite as well as shortstopmom~ didn't see the humidifier (don't need in our part of Texas) or baseball hib achi grill.

The problem now will be to remember where I put this stuff when Easter finally rolls around.

I'm taking the baseball basket with me this weekend to show the banquet chair at our preseason games - just got to be careful not to get put in charge of decorations!

Thanks gals - I've never been this ahead of the game!

Well, by the time I get back home from this college trip (love the Claremont Colleges, by the way, although the weather right now is picture-perfect and probably not as dry and warm as is typical in southern California), my baseball basket will be waiting for me at my doorstep!

I am glad we are all having so much fun baseball shopping! Do you think that other sports attract as much decorating fervor? I always think there is just something about baseball, but maybe it's because our kids are so passionate about it?

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Do you think that other sports attract as much decorating fervor?

I think other sports do garner the decorating fervor BUT I think they are more TEAM oriented as opposed to the GENERIC baseball decorating that we baseball fanatics do.

(Did that make sense? I am a bit headachey today and not thinking very clearly ... )

Yes, I think I know what you mean! Hope your headache is all gone (3 Advil do wonders....)

We are back from our trip and although it felt nonstop, including a 6-hour zip back home Interstate 5 on Thursday night, arriving precisely at midnight, it was a really good trip. One of my twins loved Scripps and the other, UCLA. Nice to start off finding colleges that excite their imaginations. Scripps is a small, cozy-feeling women's college that is part of the 5-college Claremont consortium. 5 really good colleges basically right next door to each other on a lovely campus, near a very charming little village, and a train ride away from downtown LA. UCLA is gorgeous!! And somehow as big as it is, they manage to create a very cohesive feel to the student body although class size and housing seem to be issues.

Anyway, I got my cute baseball basket (it is cuter in reality than on the website I think!) and today at the parents' lunch during the Stanford game, there were a couple of the "pleather" baseball baskets being used as containers for pretzels and they too looked adorable. I found Snickers eggs (is that what you were talking about?) wrapped in baseball and s****r wrappers at Longs' Drugs. So I am ready for Easter even though I believe the team will be in Arizona that weekend, sigh. Do you think that chocolate gets stale if kept in the wrappers that long? If so, please let me know so that I can eat them and avoid them getting stale.

No no Bordeaux ... don't eat the Snickers. They will last ... after all, think of how long they have already been on the shelves and how long they will stay on the shelves before Easter.

By the way, wasn't that clever of me (the no no Bordeaux play on words) ???

Clever use of words, not the answer I was looking for.

Bordeaux ...

Well, if you must ... GO AHEAD AND EAT THEM ... we wouldn't want them to go stale (did I spell that right? Sometimes I wonder if I did indeed graduate from college )