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[ohiohockeynana]

Hi!
I have been sitting in the back of the room reading this site for months.  I love the insights I have gained from all of your intellegent posts. 

I am a farm wife in N. Central part of Ohio...in a deeply Republican area.  I am a life long Democrat, married to 40 years into a family that has been very Republican forever..members of his family served as commissioners, judges and sherrif.   We canceled each other out in the polls many times...but I am proud to say he has "found the light" and he is very pleased to be able to say he did not vote for GWB.   

As my name indicates, I am a grandmother who spends many hours transporting kids to hockey events.   Sadly, that gave me lots of insight into Sarah Palin...women like her can be found at every hockey rink I have ever been to.

One big highlight of my life was that we took two of our grandchildren, my nephew and sister in law, and my 90 year old wheelchair bound mother to Cleveland on a rainy nasty day to be part of the Obama rally the Sunday before election day.  My mother and I were in the front row and we had the pleasure of shaking his hand!   

[Forty Watt]

  ohiohockeynana!  So glad you came out of the back room.    Lucky you shaking PO's hand - I just love that story.  Now you're here, looking forward to hearing lots from you.

[pacos_gal]

Hi and welcome to the front row of Mudflats! 

I love that story too! 

[judi]

A big welcome from one grandma to another!!

and I am soooo jealous of your shaking his hand!!!

but thrilled that you took all with you

enjoy...and make friends here..

[daMamma]

  ohiohockeynana!!  What a great story, so glad you shared.  How exciting to have shaken hands with President Obama.   

I was a soccer mom for many years myself.  Like my kids, I believe the game is all about having lots of fun and doing your best while on the field.  I would root excitedly for both teams at every game.  A great play or good score is still a great play or good score regardless of which team made it. 

Nothing as pleasurable as watching a bunch of kids have a great time.

(Nope, was never a GWB soccer mom.  Could not and still can not stand the guy or his politics!)

[the problem child]

Welcome to the mudflats, ohiohockeynana! 

[Alex]

 

I'm glad you finally waded in after lurking on the sidelines! 

[Sirenoftitan]

ohiohockeynana 

So glad you've come in from the back room.

[ohiohockeynana]

Thank you for the warm welcome!

Between my 7 grands,ranging in age from high school to preschool,  I attend soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball, golf, track, gymnastics, and hockey...often trying squeeze many all in the same day!   I feel very blessed that they all live within 5 miles of me and that I can be a hands-on Nana.  I never knew my grandparents.

This also qualifies me to say that hockey moms can be the absolute worst of them all.   Don't get me wrong..I don't mean to offend those of you who are like me and are there to support all the kids.  But it seems that every program has a couple like dear Sarah..who tend to keep the whole place in an uproar at all times.   

At our rink this year we had a Sarah-clone who was working hard to be Hockey Mom of the Year (no, not a real title, but one she clearly thought they would start just for her).   Before she was done, any number of the really good caring families had left to go to other rinks..and she feigns complete bafflement.   For example..one of the little goalies was not very good, but he was learning...but she wanted him off of her son's team...because of course her son is going to be playing NHL by the time he is 12 if only those around him would allow him to have the puck at all times.    The parents of this little guy are going through a rough patch, so this lady wrote the mother an email and asked what was going on...said she would keep what was said a secret.  Caught the mother (stupidly) in a weak moment and she wrote a very honest email back telling the whole sordid story.   So what did the Sarahbot do....sent the email to the entire club..including the father....who promptly contacted his lawyer.   Bottom line...the not so good goalie is no longer playing hockey and she got her way.   Of course...she did not send that email out on purpose...she has no idea why her computer wouild do such a thing....we all know that email programs just do such things, don't we?

Doesn't that remind of you something Sarah would do/did do/does do?

[Aeroentropy]

OH my, ohiohockeynana!

Welcome to the flats, and what a bit of deja vu, all over again, eh?

I strongly suspect that  and are doing your best to cancel out the effects of this nasty woman!

So let it all out here, anonymously among friends.... lets all play in the mud!

[pacos_gal]

That is just mean and sad and exactly something SP would do.
 
What it really reminds me of is that Sarah Palin is not the only woman who
thinks she was meant for greater things and that anyone who gets in her
way should be removed, through whatever means necessary. 
Compassion for another soul, whether adult or child is just not within
the realms of these peoples lives. 

[daMamma]

Wow that was a pretty cruel and nasty thing to do.  We all want to succeed, provide better opportunities for our children, and live well.  But at the expense of other people, especially children?