Kelowna Hockey Tournament and Family
The family packed up yesterday and we headed over to Kelowna to cheer Levi on in his hockey tournament. I always look forward to these weekends. As a family it started with weekend soccer tournaments in San Diego a few years back. You packup, leave the routine at home, travel a bit and live in a hotel with about 20 other families for what? To support your kids and create some great memories. I love it. You get to know other families better, you eat together, travel to games together and see each other around the pool. Chilliwack has some great people. Steady, hardworking and proud. Not extroverted, like we experienced in spades in SoCAl, but reserved, private people. It takes awhile to get accepted in new circles here. You just do your time and be yourself. Eventually you begin to be accepted. If your patient, it will happen - it always does.
Half our kids are teenagers and it was a bit of a push to get them along this weekend. One had to call in and make arrangements for work, Patti needs to come back early for a soccer game in Chilliwack on Sunday. It's like that. You raise kids to let them go. Before they just came along, now they have their input. I want to see them act and be a certain way, but the reality is they are their own person and I take great pleasure in watching them grow up. You hope for them to be secure in themselves and in Christ, you hope they learn the lessons from bad choices but not life altering bad choices, you hope they can sort out life from the filter of Christ-like values. Yet, as a parent, as much as you model, teach, correct, love and accept, they make their own choices and they are growing up. Hard to let go, but very good to see them grow and flourish.
Levi has had a break-through weekend, I think, with his hockey skills. Somethings just came together very well. He's carrying the puck with confidence, he's thinking clearly about his options and he's playing his position very well. I think he learned quite a bit of that in roller hockey. The game on ice is different, but the same. They lost their first game yesterday 4-1 and they had a 6:15am game today. They came out flying and playing very well. They beat a disciplined, skilled team 6-0. Coaches were very happy. He has another game at 12:15pm today.
Half our kids are teenagers and it was a bit of a push to get them along this weekend. One had to call in and make arrangements for work, Patti needs to come back early for a soccer game in Chilliwack on Sunday. It's like that. You raise kids to let them go. Before they just came along, now they have their input. I want to see them act and be a certain way, but the reality is they are their own person and I take great pleasure in watching them grow up. You hope for them to be secure in themselves and in Christ, you hope they learn the lessons from bad choices but not life altering bad choices, you hope they can sort out life from the filter of Christ-like values. Yet, as a parent, as much as you model, teach, correct, love and accept, they make their own choices and they are growing up. Hard to let go, but very good to see them grow and flourish.
Levi has had a break-through weekend, I think, with his hockey skills. Somethings just came together very well. He's carrying the puck with confidence, he's thinking clearly about his options and he's playing his position very well. I think he learned quite a bit of that in roller hockey. The game on ice is different, but the same. They lost their first game yesterday 4-1 and they had a 6:15am game today. They came out flying and playing very well. They beat a disciplined, skilled team 6-0. Coaches were very happy. He has another game at 12:15pm today.
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