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We won! We won!

In case you can't figure it out - we won our League Championship against the Springfield Ice Hawks last night. The final score was 5-2. The president of the Eastman Hockey League presented us with the Banner and Trophy. The kids were ecstatic! For some (including my son)this meant their first winning season - or anything close to a winning season - in 4 years. Here is a picture of the kids and coaches:

As parents we were so happy for them. We knew they could do it. They worked their little butts off for it and they definitely deserved it. Nevermind that they beat the #1 Ranked team in our league to get the banner. Considering this may be Cody's last year playing - what a fitting end.

As for the other team - Robin was scorekeeper last night so he heard everything the coaches said to the kids. He says some kids were in tears from the pressure. When hockey (or any organized sport) stops being fun - it's time to pull your child. If Cody was going out and deliberately hurting kids or just plain wasn't having fun anymore - I would pull him from the sport immediately. Thankfully he loves all sports - he plays hockey, basketball, badminton, soccer and cross country. Mostly through school thank goodness or I would be running 24/7. Mind you, with the report card I got home yesterday - some of those may be ending pretty darn quick.

As for me, I am feeling much better since my last post. I have a little bit of a cough, but mostly at night. We are getting ready to head down to the states to play in a hockey tournament which will be our last for this year I think. Whew! Didn't think I'd make the end of the season. :o) On Friday the girls are gone to their dads for 10 days and Monday after the tournament Cody is heading to Alberta for 6 or 7 days to spend time with his aunts and uncle and grandparents (who are just back today from Australia for 1 month). He has missed them all since they live so far away. So I will be childless for 6 or 7 days - woohoo! What ever will I do with my free time? I dunno. I'm sure I will find something. I have two gift certificates to use up - both for manicures and pedicures. Hmmm. Wonder if anyone at work would miss me for an afternoon? :o) Robin and I will probably spend most of it 4 wheeling in the evenings. With the nice weather it's hard to stay inside but there is still a lot of snow so we can't do much in the yard.

Friends of ours just got back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. They stay at the same resort as we do. They stayed for 2 weeks - lucky them. They took some amazing pictures - I will check to see if I can post some here.

I think that's all I have to report for now. Take care.

posted by Tracy @ 4:15 PM