Y’all! I was doing so well. My goals for 2019 were made, and I was meeting those goals. I was getting into a new routine with the brand new calendar year. This normally does not ever happen. I have the best of intention but lack follow through. But this year was different. Or so I […]
Ten Rules of Hockey Tournament Weekends
Woah, Nelly hockey tournaments have kept us hopping since December this season. We have just one more to survive before we call it a wrap for this season. January we had an away tournament and an in-town tournament on back to back weekends. December we also had tournaments in back to back weekends before Christmas. […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine: Sixth Edition
If there was any doubt it was winter, this week sure drove the point home. This week alone we had two snow storms, a day of rain/freezing rain and a day where the temperature was both warm enough to melt snow and then cold enough to freeze every flat surface into a skating rink. Sidewalks […]
A Step by Step Guide for Getting Your Hockey Player Dressed
Picture this: Your beautiful baby comes home and tells you they want to play hockey. So off you go to get equipment. That by itself is overwhelming enough. But then you show up to the rink, open up the brand new bag and ….. Your brain short circuits. And it’s not because of the smell….that […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine: Fifth Edition
Hello friends. It’s time for another weekly recap. And I’m not going to lie, I simultaneously feel like I both did all the things and did absolutely nothing this week. It’s a weird headspace to be in. We had a fairly quiet week on the hockey front. No practices during the week or anything. HockeyDad […]
5 Ways to Keep Siblings Occupied at the Rink
There was a time, early on in our hockey life where I would skip hockey practice routinely. Keeping the siblings occupied at the rink was not an easy task. Actually, herding feral cats was probably less of a challenge. There was no need for me to be there and it was a nightmare to bring […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine: Fourth Edition
I don’t know what I was thinking. When we got the tournament schedule for Boy#1’s team, I took advantage of my novice team manager position and scheduled Boy #2’s tournaments around them. Worked out great because then I could make all the tournaments. Last year I missed a couple due to scheduling conflicts and it […]
A Day in the Hockey Mom Life
Here’s what I’ve learned about kid’s hockey in the last four and a half years: you never know what the schedule is going to be. The first year, we had two playing in Initiation level. The schedule was predictable an hour each Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. Busy, yes. But predictable. Second year was a […]
Stories from a Small Town: A History of the To Be Read Pile
Confession time, everyone: My to-be-read book pile is out of hand. Like seriously out of control. For as long as I can remember, I have loved books. All books really, no specific genre is out of the question for me. It’s a running joke amongst my friends and family, the sheer volume of reading material […]
Reasons I Need Caffeine: Third Edition
It’s amazing what a break will do for the soul. When the boys were younger, I would work through the Christmas holidays, or at least some of them. If daycare was closed, we could choose to send them to a camp for the week. Or grandparents willing to watch small people for a couple of […]
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