"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."
-David Letterman
Hockey try-outs begin the first Saturday in September, like clockwork. It's cool to get to the rink and reacquaint yourself with the other parents that you've lost contact with over the summer. What's not so cool the thing that puts a dagger through the heart of summer: the early morning weekend ice time.
What happens with these try-outs, or "evaluations" (the preferred term, not so scary), is your kid plays in an exhibition game. After the game, before you leave the rink, you pick up your ice time slip for his next session. On Saturday, I grabbed such a slip. The numbers on the slip confused me. I mean, I understood the 7:00 part, but immediately after that there were these two other letters: "AM". What the hell is this? What does this mean? Who is doing this to me?
So, to you all out there who don't have kids in Minor Hockey, I urge you to sleep in like you've never slept in before this weekend. Do this in honour of us. Wake up at 9:00 or 10:00, then pause for a moment of reflection.
Remember us.
1 comment:
Ha ha, you crack me up :-) My hubby and I feel your pain. However, our pain is two fold...we have the early, ungodly practice hours for our Atom boy, and then the "I should be in bed watching ER" hours for the Bantam boy. Egad! This was the whole reason we stopped at two kids, we couldn't risk a third boy!! ;-) Hope you are enjoying Hawaii, I am sooo jealous. We were in Kauai two years ago for my sister's wedding....my nephew, who has been to both Disneyland and Disneyworld, ran up the beach and proclaimed to his mother...'This is even better than Disneyworld!!' Serious praise indeed!!
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