Karrie's Box of Thoughts

Monday, January 09, 2006

It’s hard to get children in to the car with big heads……

But I will forgive them THIS TIME, because they had every reason to after this weekend.

The fun started on Friday night when we went to the T-Birds game. We happen to sit by the father and grandfather of one of the players on the opposing team, but after chatting it up with the hubby (he was wearing my Sheffield Steelers jersey, which was a great conversation starter!)We all became fast friends and they really got a kick out of my little budding NHL star. So they asked Boodge if he would like to come down to the locker rooms after the game to meet the team. Oh twist his arm!! Hubby had a hockey game of his own that night and had to leave the game early, so the task fell to me to get the boy “backstage”. As he’s leaving, hubby has the gall to ask “you can get him to the locker room or the busses, right?” *snort* after the look I gave him, he was quite contrite. So I ‘managed’ to get Glenn down to ‘meet the guys’.

It must have given him a bunch of confidence because the next day at his game, he was on fire!! I’ve never seen his little legs pumping like they were this weekend. He’s playing defense this year, and when the other team was heading down the ice, he was right there. Switching on a dime and skating backwards with that little zigzag and popping the puck away. Covered the net when he needed and not once in those two games did the other team score on his line! The parents around me were very generous with their compliments on his performance. He really shined out there! And this was another team from Canada! Finally we won against the Canadians! (Love you Patty and Jude, but it was pretty sweet! Lol!)

Not to be outdone, DJ Em was doing music and has a new bunch of fans. I was standing there at the end of the game and noticed some of the other parents pointing at me….hmmm, now what? Well, next thing I know the parents from the visiting team are heading my way and heaping ooooodles of praise on my girl-child for the music she did during the game! Wow! Thanks very much! So I head off to help her and hubby with the post-game clean up on the bench and of course let her know her dj skills were well received. Well on the way back to the locker rooms, the entire coaching staff for the team we played (and the older team that came with them) stopped Kent and couldn’t stop RAVING about Em’s music. Telling Kent they had not seem music that well done at this or any level of junior hockey! That she was NHL caliber! Well, the same thing happens at the game on Sunday. And after the game (which we won - sweeter!) they went on and on again AND THEN asked if she would play at their game when we went up there in two weeks!! I had to tease her about now having ‘out of town’ guest appearances….. Were we going to have to get her a tour bus? At which she replied, ‘well if you're nice, I might get you an ‘all access’ pass to the booth’….smart ass little DiT!! Oh and soooo my daughter!!! Hehehe!

Chat later!

As told by moi9:48 AM ...