Knolltop Farm Wife

When you were younger did you ever say, “I will never…….”    Fill in the blank—drive a minivan, let my children have a motorcycle, allow my kids to play video games, sit and watch dirt track racing…. Last weekend I found myself doing something I thought I would never do.   Racing of any kind was not on the radar in my family. My parents never took us to any kind of car race, motorcycle racing, nothing of the sort.   The closest we ever got to racing was the Standardbred racing at the county fair. So when my husband said, “Hey, you wanna go to Butler?” I said, “uhm….sure.” Growing up in the south, dirt track racing was his the thing to do on Saturday night.   He watched it on TV, he went to the track, he loved every minute of it.   I have never known this side of my spouse, we never had the time or the energy to take four kids to the dirt track on a Saturday night so this part of his personality has been muted….until now. Sitting in the dirt ...