Hockey day today

I am up! Groggy & only half awake but I am up. I figure if I sit at my computer I will be more productive than falling back to sleep laying on the couch. My girls get up at like 4:30 am E-V-E-R-Y DAY! I having this dang cold cannot pull myself out of bed. SO the girls get up, and when I hear them fighting I drag myself from my bed to the couch. Zander gets up, and is watching the clock until it is a 'decent' time he can go over to the neighbor's house. So it is now 10:30- WOW already? Geesh! Seriously I have been half-awake/half sleeping in a dream like state since they were fighting at 4 something this morning. (I am still taking cold remedies)
Today the plan is: get the kids ready.. very soon actually & get over to the arena. Like most every weekend. Saturdays & Sundays in the winter we LIVE at the Buffalo Civic Center for Zander to play hockey, so if you are inviting us to anything on a weekend we will probably have to decline until March.
 Funny, after the new year by boss tried to tell me I need to start working weekends. I laughed & said "Um NO, I can't I am way too busy". I was not hired for weekends, and cannot work weekends. She then emailed me & said I have to work 1 weekend a month. I told my husband & he was MAD, and told me to tell her if she wants me to work weekends she will have to fire me because we are too busy on weekends with family stuff, and I was hired only to work a few weekend events and that is it for weekends. So I went in & showed her Zander's hockey schedule, & told her the only thing that 'trumps' hockey is a wedding. If she wants me to work regular weekends then she'd need to fire me & find someone new. Needless to say I am still there. She changed the subject & we have not discussed it since. Even if I wanted to, which I don't I simply do not have the time to go in on weekends. I work 4 0 hour days so I only see my kids in the morning as it is... so I am not about to take time away from them on weekends. Now maybe if I was getting paid a LOT more which is not going to happen LOL ;)
 At the mite level we feel we live at the arena ALREADY.... and we already know it only gets worse. More time there as they get older. Today is Zander's 1st day playing GOALIE! Zander is in his 4th year playing hockey, and this year moved up to the "Mite" level.I am a co-manager for his team (yet I often feel like a heel because Jill is such a good Manager, she does not need me... but I managed last year & enjoyed it). Ever since Zander was 4 he wanted to be the goalie. in the mini-mite levels the 4-6 year old they do not have goalies. Now that he is a mite they get a chance to try it out & see what it is all about. We do however, even at this YOUNG age have parents who think they are watching college or professional hockey, and spout out this & that about the goalies. I so hope Zander does well & we do not have to hear anything bad from that Dad. He does not even realize it may be a kid's very first time in the position. My husband, Spencer, said "I better not hear anything or I may have my first hockey Dad fight". IT can be brutal... Yet we LOVE it. Zander played baseball for the 1st time this past summer. He was actually really good at it. Much better a baseball player than a hockey player. Yet the baseball families, are so not what hockey families are. Yeah you get those few Dad's out there spouting their mouth off, and making a fool out of himself... but in the scheme of things, even as young as our kids are you almost become a family with your fellow hockey families. At baseball, heck I had no idea who's parent was who's and who was on Zander's team. It is neat to have another parent holler "Go Zander!" then you go talk to them & say "hey Thanks for routing for me kid". Last year as a manager, I made a point of knowing all the kids names on my team & being the one to Holler "GO Joey" "Good Job Ben!" I think it helped the parents knowing me their manager is routing for their kid too.
Anyway, Zander is nervous about today... but I think he will do well. Like I said he has always wanted to play goalie so he gets his chance today.  I just hope they have the dang heat on in there today. On New Year's Day his team had a double header, which means we are at the arena ALL- DAY... and it seemed to take me that whole night to warm up I had been so cold in there.
Well have a Nice Saturday all!