Baseball & Committment

Today is my last day of a wonderful 4 day weekend. I have a few errands that I need to do.. like go pick up my OFFICIAL new badge that has my new title on it :) Also have to go to the grocery store :( I hate going to the store with a passion. My youngest is at baseball practice at the moment, and he will have to go again tonight. That is the committment of being an All-Star.. practices every day for 2 weeks, sometimes 2 times a day. Now he wants to play AAU baseball, which if you are not familiar with it... well it costs a lot of money, requires a lot of travel, and also is a huge committment, even moreso than what we are going through right now with the youth league & all-stars. Then my oldest informs me that he would also like to try out of an AAU team. I am one person.. how can I even make that kind of committment between working nights (which will come about probably mid next month) and being a single parent? I suppose if I had to do anything, I would allow the oldest to try out first, well because he is the oldest. He really enjoys playing baseball, but he doesn't seem to have the passion that my youngest has for the game. It really puts a person in a predicament.

It's not that he doesn't love the game, but I just wonder about his committment to that type of team. AAU is serious about it, and I guess all I could do is give him the opportunity to try out. If he doesn't make the team, then all of the worrying would be for nothing. Problem is: if he didn't make the team and the youngest did, then a part of him would most likely begrudge the youngest for getting to do something that he didn't get the opportunity to do. I honestly just do not know what to do? I suppose I will just start thinking about it a little more and then make a decision later on this summer. After all, most teams will not be having tryouts until after this all-star stuff is completed and nationals, for the teams that are good enough or lucky enough to make it there. Gives me a couple of months to think. Now I am off to get cleaned up so I can run my errands!