Whining about whining

So I participate in an online bulletin board. Today I’m a little disgusted with them. More than one individual is complaining about “list management.” What is that you ask? It’s suggesting to friends and relatives who want to BUY presents for YOUR CHILDREN what said children might like.

Ummm… this is a chore?

If its so awful; decline.

Tell them to make a nice donation to charity in your children’s names. Leave it at that. De-stress. Okay, I’m not a saint. I regularly whine about problems that aren’t really problems but when so many people are struggling to make it financially. In the face of real financial hardships, to listen to people complain about the difficultly of suggesting to others what they can buy their already spoiled children really annoys me.

On another note. Our little hockey team seems to have pre-vailed again the “evil-league.” No one has been “traded” and all the kids remain with the team. Might I add that our little “superstar goal scorer” is so incredibly cute. He’s shy and humble and doesn’t know he’s as good as he is. He’s just having fun. This weekend he was over the moon excited because he had new skates (as opposed to used skates which is the norm).

So we prevailed in our arguments not to break up the team and all the kids are still together. The team is now VERY bonded (no real change with the kids most of whom had no idea anything was happening but the parents… whoa!). The on Saturday our little team met what we assumed was the best team in the league and beat them handily 4 - 0. But it gets worse because on Sunday we then played the weakest team in the league. They stopped putting the score on the board when the sixth goal went in mid-way through the first period. No one knew the real score until we saw the game sheet at the end of the game. At least it wasn’t a shut-out because the opposing team scored a goal (and we cheered oh so enthusiastically) but the final score was a hard to justify 18 – 1. Totally not our fault as the other team is not from our association (and we certainly weren’t asked to give them a player) but still a shock to everyone. It did demonstrate our point that one player wouldn’t have made a difference though – once again every player contributed. Our star got 4 goals out of 18; everyone was in on the scoring and even Kamryn got an assist. So sue us.

Okay must end on the happy – our Christmas tree is up.