It’s a fun time to be living in Kansas City! While I didn’t grow up here, I am a Kansan by birth and that means I am, of course, a big Kansas City Royals fan. I’ve written about the Royals a few times on this blog, even sharing tips for a good time at the stadium when they weren’t a very good team! It’s been pretty incredible to watch our whole area come together around this group of fun, passionate guys who love the game they get to play under the stadium lights. I’m also excited to be seeing our city so prominently featured in national news, with most of it focusing on how awesome this place is and how lovely the people are who live here. Sometimes I can get a hankering to live somewhere else…somewhere more trendy and exciting. But I always end up back here. It’s home. I moved here when I was 21-years-old, fresh out of college. I had my babies here and I married my husband here. I bought my first home here. I started this blog here.
Kansas City is like that cool friend you met when you were younger. It’s flashy at first, especially for someone who had never lived in a big city. But as time goes on, you start to think maybe there is something bigger and better out there. You stray and make new friends, but something about the old ones always draw you back in. And Kansas City is the old friend, who you maybe haven’t called in a while, but when you get together for coffee, you laugh more than you have in weeks. It’s comfortable, it’s friendly, it’s fiesty…it’s home.
Watching our hometown team win the World Series has been such a great thing for our community. On Halloween (photos coming soon, I promise!) we walked from door-to-door, and it was incredible to see so many people outside watching Game 4 in their driveways on big screens. Everyone was happy and having an awesome time. Even though the Royals were losing most of that game, there were smiles on everyone’s faces. This team is the embodiment of everything I love about the people of Kansas City…they have fun, they never give up, and they are good sportsman. And those traits are contagious! There is something incredible about watching your kids look up to a group of athletes with these qualities and know they are taking that in and will remember it for the rest of their lives. It’s such a fun time to be a kid in Kansas City. I’m grateful my two are getting to experience this and it will be a vivid memory from their childhoods.
Thank you Kansas City Royals, for reminding me of why I love this place. Thank you for bringing us together to cheer and laugh and cry and scream together. Thank you for not giving up. We are so lucky to have you as the ambassadors of our little city!
