Oh My how did THAT happen

There was a women's hockey league started up this summer and I decided to play, although it came with great pain to do so. I, like my father before me and his mother before him, am an a-social person. In other words I am painfully shy, and don't like to be around people I don't know, so for me, to join this summer league was very tough decision. I was faced with two choices: First, I could choose not to play hockey this summer because the only other evening there was hockey available to me, Chris plays hockey at the same time and since one of us has to stay home with the kids that clearly wasn't an option. The second choice was buck up and join this league. So not wanting to have another summer where my skills fell further behind the rest of my team, I decided to bite the bullet and toss myself into the game.

I ended up being on team with three other people from the women's team I play on in the winter easing my stress levels a bit. I was very nervous the first game we played because I really have only been skating for two years and I had a break between those two years because I was pregnant with Kai at the time. The league includes women and some beginner men from all over Madison and the surrounding areas. By the end of the game I was in the rhythm of the game and enjoying it very much. I am glad I made the choice to play this summer. And even more exciting is that I am on a team that has won two games. You may be asking why is it a big deal that I am on a winning team. The answer to that is, although I play on a women's team during the winter that I wouldn't trade for the world, we have never won a game in the two years I have played with them. It isn't that we are that bad at the game, it is that almost everyone on the team hasn't played for more then a couple of years and all of the teams we play have fairly experienced players.

So to sum it all up, I am enjoying playing on this summer league with the added perk of actually winning a game or two.