Ever have one of those weeks where you are running at a break neck pace only to find out that come the weekend, you have to take it up a notch? Or maybe one of those weeks that you finish the week looking longingly at your couch knowing that you and it will not get […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine This Week: Week 4
As I mentioned last week, we had a brief reprieve in the hockey schedule. It gave me a ton of time to get things done. Which is probably good because the full blown schedule starts this weekend and I’ll be spending 9 hours at rinks this weekend. Actually, now that I mention it, I should […]
Stories from a Small Town: The Road that Leads You Home
This past Tuesday, I had enough of trying to assemble IKEA furniture and decided to take the boys out to visit their grandfather. We drove the back roads to the highway that had been, in my youth, just two lanes but recently had been upgraded to four. My brain still screams at me that I’m […]
Farm Wife with No Farm
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me “I don’t know how you do it all”, I wouldn’t have to go to work in the morning. Ok, truth is I might be able to buy myself a decent dinner with the amount, but you hear things enough times and you kind of […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine This Week: Week 3
Hello my fine feathered friends. I am currently running on endorphins having woke up at 5am to run. This makes me friendly and might keep me that way until I reach the caffeine source. Also in good news, Boy #1 does not have to participate in the Bubble Games this weekend to determine what novice […]
Hockey Practice Packing List
I did the math on the weekend. With three kids in hockey, I will be spending between 3-7 hours per weekend in hockey arenas. That’s a lot of sitting time. And it doesn’t factor in commuting time or the amount of time it takes me to get my player dressed and on the ice. In […]
Things I Would Tell a New Hockey Parent
Yesterday I got the email for the IP hockey program information night. Given that this is our third consecutive year with IP hockey, I am pretty sure I can skip it. That said, there are some things that the hockey information night doesn’t tell you that I feel are just as important. 1- The hockey […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine This Week: Week 2
Welcome another adventure in Copious Amounts of Caffeine. While the younger two have been living it up at the cottage this week, Boy #1 and I have been running around like crazy people. I honestly don’t really know how that happened. And at this point, I don’t even remember Monday. But I present the reasons I […]
5 Stupid Easy Meals for Fright Nights (and what is a Fright Night?)
Here’s the one thing I have struggled with since we started hockey. Meal times. And here’s what I’ve learned: easy meals for sports nights are absolute life savers. A friend of mine (hi Meg!) coined the term “Fright Night” and I adopted it because it totally describes my current existence. You know those nights that […]
10 Things My Son Taught Me while He was Skating
We just wrapped up “conditioning camp” for Boy #1. I put it in quotation marks because I think it’s a little ridiculous for 7 and 8 year olds to be enrolled in something called conditioning camp. What it was is a reason to get out on the ice and remind them how skating works before evaluations […]
