Chapter 5 of "Playing Ball with Mom" should now be available for reading. For followers of this story, I apologize for the wait, and hope it was worth it. For new readers, enjoy this and the previous chapters.
A note of caution - although it's in the story tags and I've previously blogged this warning, Chapter 5 (this chapter!) finally features a scene prominently involving one of the more 'extreme' tags - namely, water sports. If you really don't like this subject matter, then I suggest that this story may not be for you (or at least this chapter), don't be surprised by its presence, and you may wish to find some other story to your liking instead.
(FWIW, water sports will not be prominently featured in most of of this story's chapters; most of them don't and won't feature it at all. (However, this is one of them, as are two other future chapters to be posted at some point, one hopefully in the not-too-distant-future.)