Ep. 39: Baseball Family Life

Simple

Tsh Oxenreider

Education

4.3 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What's it like being the wife of a baseball coach? In this episode, Tsh talks with Alysa Bajenaru, who takes her two kids on the road along with her husband, a coach for a minor league farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. She shares the ins and outs of nomadic living, and what she's learned from carrying only what she needs for spring training, away games, and more. For show notes, head to http://theartofsimple.net/39.

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0:00.0	It's a Simple Show. You've got episode 39.
0:09.6	Hey, I'm Tish Oxen Rider, and I'm a family-oriented writer, traveler, and entrepreneur,
0:13.6	and you can follow me on Twitter at Tish, that's TSH, on Instagram at Tish-Oxon Rider, or find
0:19.0	the blog at the art of simple.net. Before you make some
0:22.7	fun tweaks and changes coming to the podcast this fall, I recorded a few conversations over the
0:27.5	summer I wanted to share. And speaking of which, a number of you expressed a little nervousness
0:33.2	about what I was alluding to in the last episode, episode 38, about upcoming changes.
0:38.7	Well, I'm so glad you love the simple show the way it is right now, but I promise you'll love
0:42.8	what's coming. It's exactly what I've had in mind for the show for a couple of years now,
0:47.6	honestly. So I'm stoked it's going to finally happen. It'll be great, I promise.
0:52.3	Okay, so I've recorded four conversations over my summer
0:55.1	break, and this episode is the second one. Here, I'm talking to my friend and Art of Simple
1:00.6	contributor, Alyssa Bajanaro. She's a baseball wife, which means her husband is a minor league
1:07.7	baseball coach, and this also means they travel a ton. They actually go to spring
1:12.7	training and a lot of games together as a family. So while they have a home base in Texas, they live
1:18.3	several months a year, elsewhere and everywhere. She's got two kids. So I wanted to chat with her about
1:23.8	what this nomadic living is like for all four of them. I know a wee bit about
1:28.4	nomadic living, having traveled around the world for the 2014-15 school year, but we more or less
1:33.9	stay put during our normal years. So I found this whole topic fascinating. I think you will too.
1:40.2	So let's get right to it. Here is my chat from this summer with Alyssa Bajanaro. Hey, Alyssa, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I am doing well. Okay, where are you right now? I am in Visalia, California right now. Oh, okay. All right. So the reason I have wanted to talk with you on the podcast for a while, other than you're just
2:00.8	a fun person and you're one of our writers, is because you have such an interesting life.
2:05.1	We normally say, where do you live right away, but you're kind of all over the place.
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