Hockey & Team Spirit

I know I already posted something today..... like 15 minutes ago, but I have been inspired to post something else as well. And this isn't about something that happened today...but a few days ago. 

Lets start from the beginning. My grandparents on my mothers side live in a small town in Canada. And this small town has their own hockey team. My grandfather has always been into hockey and so no surprisingly he has seasons to their games. Once a year he gets extra tickets for my sisters and I to come along. And thats what happened a few days ago. We went to one of their hockey games. 

The teams in which we say play were the Barrie Colts (the team we were rooting for) and Owen Sounds Attach. 

Anyways, the game turned out to be very exciting. Attack was supposed to be a very good team and the Colts are not this year....so we were expecting to be creamed. But...you never know right? We ended up losing only 6 to 7 after we had gone into over time sudden death, the penalty shots, then penalty shots sudden death. In other words....its was pretty exciting!!! 

]In the Sudden Death Penalty Shots the crowd really started to bug me. I have always been one of team spirit and being positive during a game. And being positive towards to the other team as well. Anyways, when the Attack guy was coming in for a penalty shot the whole crowd was boooing him. They were screaming and shouting boooooo!!!! It bugged me so much. I mean the poor smuck was only a kid.....16-18 and he was under a lot of pressure to get the point. And he goes in with booos? It was just awful. I felt like cheering for him even though I was rooting for the other team. I mean no one in the arena wanted him to score....(as it was a home game for the Colts and all the colts fans where there). But even if you don't want the guy to score it doesn't mean you have to booo them. Just sit with your mouth closed and hope he doesn't score. I mean think about it! Put yourself in that guys shoes. Under pressure, going in to take a shot and just hear boos? I mean come on! Give him some support. 

Anyways.....I just wanted to point out the fact that even if you don't like someone or something put yourself in their shoes and see how you would feel if you were getting put down....if that makes any sense. 

Check out the Barrie Colt website to see the stats of the games and so on! 

http://www.barriecolts.com/

Barrie Colts

Owen Sound Attack

Christmas Trees

For me there has always been a magic in a Christmas Tree. Not just any old Christmas Tree, but a decorated one with colorful lights. One that has had a lot of work put into it to make it look so special.

In our family getting and decorating our Christmas Tree has always been a tradition. We get a 13-16 foot tall tree and spend the whole afternoon decorating it. It sits in the living room so all can admire it. The reason for writing this post is that I am sitting here, in my living room, surrounded with family, with cozy PJs on, with soft music (silent night) playing in the background.....and looking at our tree. It towers over everything in the room with a little star on top (even if the star is tilted way over) There are many, many lights. Some flashing, some just still. And the tree  is overloaded with decorations. Overloaded is usually used in a negative connotation. However, in this case, its positive. We have been decorating the tree for years and every year new decorations are added.....but also old ones remain. So by now....we have tons of decorations. Some of them I made when I was 5 or 6, some from places all around the world, and some just normal old decorations. But each one is special.

No madder how tall your tree is, or where it came from, or how many lights or decorations it has on it...it can still have a sense of magic to it. I know this because I have lived in 4 different countries and in 5 different houses. That means 5 different types of trees. Some were 4 feet tall, some fake, some real...but all special. Its not all the decorations and lights that make a tree magic....but the spirit, love, and hard work that goes into it. And tree in the world could be made into a beautiful Christmas Tree with a bit of work.

I don't know where the tradition of people putting up trees for Christmas came from, but I think it is such a special tradition that should never be lost. It just makes a house, apartment or where the tree is, a ore spirited place if that makes sense.