Was anybody here...ever a "Hockey Mom"
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| Thu, 02-25-2010 - 10:28am |
I have watching all the Olympic Hockey...& they show lil clips of some players & skaters, skating while they were very young...& along side them was thier Mom.helping them put on equipment or tieing up those skates !!!
Brought back sooooo many memories !!! Good....cold memories !!! My girls were in The Figure Skating Commonwealth Club.....practice..practice...lessons..lesson...competiotions , traveling......nerves...more traveling,,,doing homework & eating in the car as we traveled from 1 point to another.
Now that was just the girls !
Then Boys hockey camp.....practice...scrimmages....practice at 5:00am on a Sunday......buying new equipment & skates as he grew !!!!! Met LOTS of wonderful people....still friendly with some to this day. The both were all year round!!!
I spent many YEARS at a rink....in 1 state or another....at various screw-ball times !! OMG....the year ds decided he wanted to be goalie....yikees on the euipment !!! That was the year the team excelled & moved on the State Tourny....talk about nerves !!!! My DH was behind ds's net (of course outside the ice)...he found a loose piece of pexi-glass...& he kept lifting it up & coached ds .as the game was goin on !!!....lol..........DH got kicked out of the rink , that game !!!
Sooo many memories...just re: the skating rinks ! Never mind, baseball & Softball fields...drum & Bugle Competitions ( they won the East Coast & we lost in Montreal).. OMG....how can I forget the Race track....urghhhh...
.I should write a book !
Rambling again......Well, was anybody else here a RINK RAT ????? lol



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Hockey wasn't the sport of choice when my kids were younger, so no.
I was a soccer, basketball, baseball, karate, jazz dance, piano, Boy/Girl Scout mom. Thank gawd I was a SAHM or my kids wouldn't have been able to do a lot of these things. I was a MOW (Mom-on-wheels).
that was one sport the boys did not play. jeremy would have if he had time....lol i was a soccer,wrestling ,track & baseball mom!! jeremy was on a travel soccer team that played year round.it was never ending sports.
oh yes...it was fun and sometimes exhausting. i was torn between wishing it would end & not wanting it all to end...lol
i remeber plenty of times being asked to stop yelling at an ump or ref- depending on the sport. i was never as rabid as some parents tho! there were some scary parents out there!!
Not Hockey- but I did Soccer, Track & Swimming!
I love the one commerical that is shown (for Visa I beleive) where they show all these young kids getting ready to do various Olympic sports, skiing, hockey, speed skating etc - all these little girls & boys getting ready for thier big moment
Nope my ds was not into the only sport played soccer... (he
Im not a Mum,step daughters were never into sports.
Youngest was in band,so DH and I always went to her concerts.
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No..thank God!!! My BIL & SIL's kids were into all kinds of sports. We went to some of their games, but they ran around like crazy much like you did! I was so thankful that my girls were not into sports!
DD2 was musical, so we ran around to various shows, try outs, rehearsals and such. We loved those though! DD1 was not into anything competitive, so we didn't have to run around much with her.
Now we have grandkids and run around for their various games and musical programs. Love going to
lol.....gues I was a MOW too !!
ahhhh...forgot about the traveling teams.....Janet was on a traveling softball team.....that was crazy....& they kept winning....so they kept playing..sometimes 3 games in 1 hot summer day !
Oh Yes....some parents get soooo hot under the collar at thier kids games ! DH would yell...but..not to obnoxious...he just blended in with all the other yelling !! lol !
Oh you had a busy time with 2 boys in hockey...crazy times..huh ? You were lucky ..only hockey in the winter.....we had summer teams too...talk about living at the rink....aka Rink Rat ...lol !!!
I agree...crazy but fun times !
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