Hockey Life

 If you really knew me you would know that I have a love for sports. I kinda dislike some of the parts of competitive sports for babies. Okay okay they aren't technically babies anymore.

We go to hockey twice a week with a 4 &6 year old. Today we played 3 games (how can they even?) So in the last game I watched my 4 year old spin in circles and make bubbles on the ice... which was absolutely adorable and he has the attention span of a 4 year old.  My 6 year old would get so much momentum and doesn't know how to stop so he fell into the boards a lot !  I wish I could put that much effort into everything I love... oh wait I do its called parenting.


So back to this hockey life adventure... I LOVE IT!
It's not for the fact that they could win or could be the best. I love our crazy hockey life because it brings my babies joy. It's not joy that fades quickly...
I watched it build today with all the teams. They all were so proud and all of us parents are proud to!  I want to preserve this. We play because we love hockey and not because all we want is to win. Winning is great... loosing is great to. It teaches kids at a small age that sometimes we don't win in life but we always have an opportunity to get up and try again. As an adult sometimes I don't want to get up and try all over again. sometimes I wanna lay on the ice of life and have a temper tantrum... it's not going to benefit anyone involved if I lay there. So watching my children polish the Ice and keep trying teaches me that it's okay to fall down. It's a learning curve every time we fall we learn.

 So today our kids won three games and it's super encouraging to them. I am so proud of how hard they played... I also love their ability to be kind and considerate and honestly my 6 year old didn't even care that they won he just had a great time living moment by moment and that's what I want to do in my life....