When I first found out I was having a boy, I was excited! I was well prepared to teach him the football, baseball, basketball, and any other sport he may be interested in.

What made it even better was when he came out loving cars! We go to local dirt track every weekend and I love it! I’m one of those that if I had the money, I would be out there driving, but racing is an expensive sport!!!!

Now, what I was expecting and what I got are two different things. Yes, he loves football and basketball and the racing, but he also has developed a love for the outdoorsy type of sports. Ya know, hunting and fishing and that type of thing.

This is where my problem comes in. I didn’t grow up being taught all the finer details of these sports. I know about each a teensy bit and can appreciate it, but actually doing it and teaching it is high above my pay grade.

I have been able to kind of take him fishing with a kiddy pole and learned to set up the bobber and hook and the weights. The only thing is, I don’t like bugs so I just picked up some of those brightly colored nibblet things for bait.

The first trip out we were learning to cast by using the little rubber fish that comes with kiddy poles. We were doing good until something happened and the fish flew off without me realizing it. I ended up reeling all the line in and had no idea what to do.

I unscrewed the cap on the reel and thought I could fix it but couldn’t quite figure it out. That day a good friend came out and helped us. From then I did good with taking him to the park just me and the boy, until the same thing happened again. This time the good friend texted me each step to fix it.

This fall, after it started cooling off another friend who has a little boy that just turned 1 started meeting us at the park. Luckily they have a daddy around who just so happens to enjoy fishing too. Thanks to him we got to fish with actual worms. Still haven’t caught anything though.

One thing I have learned through this is that for those that truly enjoy fishing, poles set up to cast out and let sit until you get a bite is not the way to go. Zackary wants the experienced type of fishing, where ya throw it out and very slowly reel it back in and ya use lures and such, which I know nothing about!

It appears I am going to have to learn the real ins and outs of the outdoorsy life. Just last night the tot said we needed to go camping, which I have done before but not by myself!

This is going to be an interesting journey!