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icious treats it must sell i mean why else would my daughter s camp require an additional 450 deposit on her tuck shop account basically her spending allowance for the next two weeks 450 for two weeks isn t that roughly equivalent to the gdp of greece as she was packing i brought to her the camp s tuck shop permission form the conversation went something like this let s go over this tuck shop permission form sigh can we do this later later you re leaving for camp tomorrow and soon you ll be spending money at the tuck shop like you won the loto649 or something i know mom we went over this last year and she s right every year it s the same old same old conversation about budgeting because i just don t think a 14 year old should have to participate in bail out negotiations but she and i rarely agree on a spending plan her creditors ahem would approve people this is what happens when you limit a girl s screen time take her cell phone away and stick her out in nature she ll go nuts shopping at the camp tuck shop where or where are angela merkel and françois hollande when you need them it wasn t like this at the camp my boys went to their camp tuck shop deposit was 60 a month just enough to cover a few chocolate bars and a wooden spear as my boys tell it there was quite an efficient underground tuck currency system at their camp heavy handed negotiations took place as part of some pretty sophisticated trades as he tells it my son was awarded extra five extra candy tuck by a canoe trip mate for his mosquito jacket during one particularly brutally buggy canoe trip three is the weekly maximum for a camper so it was quite the windfall for my son so maybe the tuck shop permission form is more harmless than this alternative and entirely covert barter system her first year at camp she brought home various stuffed animals and assorted other souvenir purchases most of which quickly cast aside and forgotten until the following camp season when they were all summarily replaced after ten years as a camper i think we now possess everything listed on that tuck shop list yet our austerity battle continues well into the night anyone need a waterproof notebook and pen with camp crest pewter camp necklace no maybe there is an equally sophisticated underground camp tuck shop surplus distribution network somehow i doubt it she comes home sunday i can t wait to see her and her tuck shop acquisitions share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading 2 comments posted in family life and tagged motherhood summer camp bookmark the permalink are you raising a hockey brat posted on june 8 2015 by astra once in a while there is a kid in the dressing room that really deserves a good slap i only kind of kidding but you know what i mean right sometimes that kid is even my kid is your kid being benched and you don t know why maybe your kid teases kids for not playing a good game for missing the pass for letting the goal in maybe your kid is the one who s an attention hog in the dressing room maybe your kid thinks it s really funny to squirt gatorade and water all over the floor walls equipment and people read more about my take on why coaches might be short shifting your kid in hockey in my latest hockeynow ca post by clicking here share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading 1 comment posted in family life and tagged hockey life hockey mom motherhood bookmark the permalink in the shape of an l on my forehead posted on june 1 2015 by astra it s friday night and i m at the hockey arena it s no big deal since becoming a hockey mom fourteen years ago i ve lost count of the number of times i ve been to a hockey arena on a friday night what can i say i have an impressive social life only this time i m not here with one of my three kids i m here with one of my friend s kids again because of my impressive social life i need to be at a hockey arena on a friday evening this boy s parents our friends and neighbours are off to a family wedding at an adults only resort in the dominican republic and being fourteen he s too young to join them i think he could have passed for an eighteen year old but whatever i don t even think there was a wedding but whatever thursday evening my friend drops off her son for his 10 day retreat chez astra with 50 and a list of his weekly activities i tell her hey not to be rude or anything but i don t think this is going to cover my weekly lcbo purchases and she doesn t think this is funny at first it looks like i might get out of the friday night hockey carpool gig because i have company coming to visit then my guests decline and i mention this at dinner thursday evening oh so you can take me to hockey then quick think of something only nothing comes to mind and i concede looks like i m spending friday night at the hockey arena after a 30 minute drive during which any question i asked was responded by him pulling his ear plug out and asking excuse me i should know better i drop all efforts to converse i leave him at the front door of the arena and tell him i have a few errands to run like running to the lcbo but i ll be here to watch the last twenty minutes and off he goes this hockey arena has four ice pads and i forgot to ask him which surface he was playing on i quickly size up the place pad 1 has girls on it moving on pad 2 has little tykes on i t so i move on again pads 3 and 4 both look like they re hosting groups of 14 year olds i spend a few minutes checking out the teams on pad 3 but i don t see our underage unemployed free loader i move over to pad 4 and see him chasing the puck down the ice i flash my best fake yeah thumbs up in his general direction mostly because i sure as hell don t want to have spent a friday night at the hockey arena without him noticing my efforts the game appears to end in a 2 2 tie and i retreat to the foyer to await his return from the dressing room i then run into another hockey mom i know from my daughter s hockey team last season after some chit chat she asks what team emily is playing on tonight because it would be normal for me to be here with my own child i tell her that i m here with a friend s son and am just waiting for him to change gesturing in the direction of pad 4 all of a sudden my friend s son comes up behind me and says hey i m ready to go i wheel around and ask where did you come from my game over there gesturing to pad 3 you weren t playing on pad 4 nope oh i see so you were not the one i gave a thumbs up to thank god i didn t bang on the glass did you even watch my game no i was watching the game on pad 4 who was playing on pad 4 he asks and it s not a bad question i thought you were so not only did i take a child not my own to a hockey game i watch almost an entire game of complete strangers loserdom has my name on it let s keep this between the two of us okay i implore to him sure he says just like you re going to keep the two chocolate bars before dinner between the two of us too right it s a deal truth be told she also dropped off all his lunches and two or three meals for our entire family which had just grown to six people but whatever it s my story share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading 4 comments posted in family life humour i am a hockey mom motherhood and tagged family hockey life hockey mom motherhood bookmark the permalink and just that like it was over between us posted on april 4 2015 by astra yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as though they re here to stay oh i believe in yesterday yesterday was not a good day for me yesterday was the day she broke up with me yesterday was the day she uttered a simple i think we re done here and just like that it was all over i couldn t believe it what had i done wrong nothing i had done nothing wrong the truth was and she even admitted it i had done everything right my achilles tendonosis is healed and my physiotherapist discharged me from further treatments obviously our furtive lunch time meetings over the past three months meant much more to me than they did to her i thought we had something apparently all we had was a case of tendonosis and now that was gone i saw her as a saviour of my soul and sole but she saw me as just another achilles and not a very special achilles at that time with her passed so quickly and i shared so much more with her than with anyone else in my life she s the only one who seen my legs since last summer well my left leg for sure she was twenty years my junior married to an elite triathlete and they had a six month old baby girl together despite these obstacles it s not surprising that i fell do hard for her she made me feel young again i worshipped her special brand of love acupuncture dry needling deep tissue massage joint adjustments because they were just what i d been aching for i should have known it would come to this the signs were there the most obvious sign being that my insurance only covers 500 of physiotherapy and i ll already given her 460 still my monday and wednesday lunch hours are going to be just a little darker now without me being able to see her and her bright yellow safe needle disposal box she fixed the broken parts of me she fixed the broken parts of me that i didn t even know were broken but apparently now the broken parts are fixed and i now have to venture out in the world and run all i have left of my time with her is a memory and post treatment exercises she said run she actually said you should try some running now but whatever it cut me to the core which is another body part altogether and run i will baby steps at first but i will get over this and her she said i would and i will but the what if still lingers she left me with one what if a glimmer of hope that perhaps not all was over between us she said i ll leave your file open for three months call me if your achilles flairs up again so a rebound or recurrence was still possible oh i believe in yesterday share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading 2 comments posted in family life and tagged humor running bookmark the permalink chug big or chug home posted on june 9 2014 by astra an unsanctioned event organized by students at one of our local high schools has raised the ire of its principal so much so that emails have been sent home warning parents of this event and its imminent danger parents have been urged to ask their children not to participate in this wasteful and harmful event and have been cautioned that local police have been asked to provide additional officers to enforce safety should the event take place what is this undesirable event that parents should be so anxious about is it an illegal swim party at a local quarry is it an unchaperoned bush party at one of the many local farm fields is it the private post prom party across the border at a local ski resort where most of the students will be of legal drinking age no in fact these events which have taken place or are about to take place on my son s social calendar have not been deemed sufficiently objectionable by anyone such that parents should be alerted to potential unsafe and or illegal activity the low down on the street is how we get savvy to these events the appalling event that i am being warned about is the annual senior student organized milk chugging contest this will be one of the most uncomfortably awkward and sensitive discussions i will have with my teenagers yet there s no way all those conversations about safe sex drugs alcohol academic challenges work and money chats will serve me for this one i m not sure how to handle this one should i go the sour milk is bad for you route or that unpasteurized milk may make you sick schtick how about milk that comes from cows who ve been injected hormones have been fed is unacceptable deal oh but that s illegal in canada so will probably not be too effective or the time tested waste not want not talk no i think i better stick to the fear tactic that always works best do you have any idea how easy it is to get addicted to milk this isn t the first time we ll be talking about milk chugging contests and i can assure you it won t be the last sorry i couldn t help myself i hope i don t get my son suspended share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest like loading 11 comments posted in family life humour life happens motherhood and tagged humor motherhood teenagers bookmark the permalink thawstruck posted on march 17 2014 by astra you can tell an awful lot about a woman by the contents of her freezer i have a friend who despite having three kids has a truly immaculate home unlike my own home with three kids which seems to be rife with kid clutter and dog dirt whenever i come home from her place i am inspired to tidy up just a little if nothing else to at least wipe the dogs drool off the patio door well this time i went for broke i cleaned out my bottom drawer kitchen freezer there s a certain je ne sais quoi about my kitchen freezer in fact a freezerful of je ne sais quoi as i was cleaning it out i was not at all surprised by the number of containers with unidentifiable contents or the amount of food with freezer burn beyond rehabilitation i was however a little grossed out with the amount of dog hair i cleaned out of my freezer which seems to be immune from freezer burn pretty sure this explains the string of declines for any dinner invites i extend delighted with my saturday morning s accomplishment i gathered the family except the dogs around the kitchen frig and presented them with my handiwork ta da i announced to a primarily indifferent audience what s that asked my husband pointing to a little square tupperware container amongst the ice cube trays and frozen treats it s fishy i whispered it s fishy he asked why does fish get its own corner of your freezer which would be a very good question in a normal household shhh not fish i corrected fishy fishy s alive screamed my daughter jumping up and down sigh no honey fishy is not alive he is still very much dead he just happens to be still very dead in our freezer a now thoroughly confused husband then said i m going to regret asking this but what is a dead fishy doing in our freezy well when he died we were on our way out the door and didn t have 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