OFF TOPIC BRAGGING

Great news. Can this influence a college to give him a scholarship based on his hockey prowess?

Lucille

AWESOME!!!

Doubtful - this is Tier II not Tier I, but who cares anyway... He shone and that's what matters to me

Cheryl

How wonderful for him....and for you to be able to brag about.

Nancy

Congrats to him! It's such an affirmation when one is recognized publicly for extraordinary effort and skill!

(And who needs affirmation more than a teenager/young adult? We always need it, but most particularly at some stages of life!)

sue

That is WONDERFUL!!!!! Congrats to Kurt....give him a hug for me when he gets back. You must be one proud mama!

Joan

You should be VERY proud of him.

You have done all, or more, any Mom could do to get him to games. This is where he has learned his skills. You also earn an award for the support you have always given Kurt( Elise, too).The pride of his achievement is your reward for the love and efforts you have made.

A special accolade is due to a special Mom.

Gill

Thank you Gill

I'm feeling very strange - I dropped Elise off at a school dance tonight - her first

Don't worry... I have met the child and heaven help any idiot hormonal male teen who steps over the bounds.

She is delightful, but I think probably knows full well what is and isn't acceptable.

My Dad was a good friend of the Principal when I was in my mid-late teens. ( My God, we were so naive).He would drive to the school dance, chat with the Principal, and at the end would ask "Do you have a walk home?"

At that point did I have a choice?? LOLOL

She has been well raised, don't worry MOM.

HUgs

Gill

Isn't good that Cheryl can brag on her big little boy - doing so well in skills after his team didn't have the same stellar start. We're hosting the Tier II PeeWees (12& under youth) here - so I've gotten to spend a bit of time with kids on teams who definitely had a rough start - going home tomorrow.

My little brag - DH is working the USA Hockey National Special Olympics tourney. Which includes special athletes in all kinds of categories. The traditional "special" - which has mentally disadvantaged, and autistic kids. Sled hockey -- youth & adult - which is amputees/paraplegics. The sled hockey is amazing. He worked special games last night - each team actually can have coaches on the ice during those games. Tonight - a triple of sled hockey - which actually in adult is very full check - the sleds have pushers (on skates) but coaches are not on the ice. In the adult divs they can have up to 3 able-bodied players (in sleds), youth divs must all have a disability that qualifies them. It's pretty amazing. Tomorrow - he does 4 of the games. Anyhow - it's a great thing, and of course as part of the honor of doing the games, the ref fee is donated. So, a little brag.

But, I will say - after working at the PeeWee Tier II Nationals today - saw some poor goalie from Alabama just totally become dysfunctional in one game- Lost 9-1 - and it could've been much worse. At one point - I think goal 8 in the 3rd - the puck actually hit the blade of his stick - he made the save but then flipped/turned it - right into the back of the net - swoosh. The opposing team from Portland Oregon was very, very nice, and I think honestly had backed it down after 5-0. The 1 didn't come til mid 3rd period.

Then, woohoo - a real fun game between a team from Huntsville, and a very strong team from Delaware. Lots of company in the box (I was doing dual duty overseeing the scorekeepers and doing the visitor box - Delaware). The ref was from Kansas - and had a hit from behind called in the 2nd period. There were 4 kids in the home box, and 3 in the away (2 sets of coincidentals - not at the same time - plus the kid sitting the 2, plus the kid who had to sit his 2 & the 10 min misconduct). Making things interesting - some dads above - from the less northern team - who were loudly trash talking the other parents, yelling at the linesmen, and then actually picked on some poor kid coming into the box on a pretty routine kind of thing. Fortunately, one of the USAH supervisors that I know well came over & I was able to get him to deal with it (as in the parents were told they would be removed shortly, etc). And the PA lady made a lovely "good sportsmanship - enjoy the game" announcement when they came back after the ice cut. The poor girl in the other p-box - she did a great job - (no parents allowed in any of these positions - she's from the tourney staff) I had to yell thru the scorers so they could tell her - and she watch my semaphores - with who went out when. Of course, then a bunch of my fellow refs came by at times to accuse me of causing trouble - as if.

The kids were all pretty nice kids. Skilled girl skating on the Oregon team

- she did well - made me think of Cheryl's Elise. It's great being at these games, and so nice that the majority of the kids really do seem to be here with a great attitude.

Ellice

So just to clear up the ooops - I meant to type "Isn't it good...." as it's fab that Cheryl gets to brag on DS's accomplishment. Just missed on the typing - nothing subliminal - just typing in the dark.

Sorry if anyone thought I was sniping.

Ellice

LOL - kind of depends. But, I'm sure we all have plenty of well-based faith that "lil' elise" can handle herself quite well. Watching this girl of similar size and likely skill playing on the similar boys team at nationals yesterday made me think of her. Then a dad was talking to me - same situation as Elise - big 11 yr old - 5'3" when she was 10! Played with the boys til last year, switched to a girls team - played same age group as Elise, and he said what was interesting that while she liked playing with the boys, now that she's 11 - she felt more girlish comaraderie playing with them. That the boys - well - the cooties kind of thing - even as a team mate - cool being a player - but...

OTOH - in about 2 years, IMHE, we start to see some of the girls on the hockey teams wearing eye make-up or lipstick. Cracks me up. On my women's team we had a 16 yr old trying to play with our rec team - and finally we told her "if you're coming to play hockey with your make-up on, then it's not about the game. " OTOH - we've seen guys definitely looking at those pouty red lips (needless to say that young lady didn't make any travel teams).

Not sure about carrying the hockey sticks in school? Don't think it's allowed here - they have to leave them locked up somewhere in the school.

ellice

Well done, K!

And I happen to know that that "little boy" was bigger than my DH several years ago. :-)

Sara

She was fine - swore all she did was hang out the girl friends... But I do know that the two 8th grade boys at her bus stop are scared of her or big brother - or both.

As to the make up thing - I've had the best laugh watching the U14 hockey players and U15 lacrosse players arriving with their "smoky eye" and leaving with smears. Only guys around are Dads/Coaches, so I don't know what that is all about. In both cases, they are no "eligible" boys around. It was the same with the U16s that were at a recent open skate for DD's new all female team - includes the coaches.