“a somewhat unusual view of the world”
Posted in Family humor, For the hockey moms, Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2010
My son plays hockey. He doesn’t get many penalties but last year he gained a bad habit. When checking; he would take an extra step and kind of launch himself into the other player. This was a flagrant breaking of the rules of hockey, which state that you can only try to maim someone in [...]
Posted in Family humor, For the hockey moms, It's a strange planet, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2010
Every place has their sport- the game that causes passion to rise to a level beyond all reason. In Texas it would be football. In England it would be also be football (or soccer as we call it in North America). Here in Canada it is hockey.
Now, my 12 year old son plays hockey. [...]
Posted in Family humor, For the hockey moms, Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2009
Lat weekend I took my son to his hockey team’s tournament. Tournaments basically have two components – kids playing hockey and keeping 11 and 12 year old boys out of trouble.
For example, let’s consider Saturday night:
9:00 pm
Me: “I am going to the parent’s party in room 335. I am going to trust you to be [...]
Posted in Family humor, For the hockey moms on Dec 7th, 2008
THE PRESSURE is on. I have to get my backyard rink up and running, but the weather hasn’t been co-operating.
See, last year I made a backyard rink for the first time. Not just a rink, but 17 feet by 27 feet of awesome, pure crystal ice. I learned how to do it from a [...]
Posted in Family humor, For the hockey moms, Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2006
MINOR HOCKEY is over! Minor hockey is over! I have my weekends back.
Well, at least until soccer starts up.
My son is six years old and in his second year of hockey. It was a good year, though. My highlight was a few weeks ago during the Sunday pickup game.
He stole the puck at his own [...]