April Contest Winners

Ice Mom, Synchro Mom, Ice Girl and myself Ice Coach would like to congratulate our first contest winners ever!

Congrats to our first place winner H.B. we all died laughing when we read her story. Although I am sure it was not funny at all when it happened. Thanks for sharing your story H.B. Just reply to my email to claim your prize. H.B. has won a skating blanket and guards. You can view them here http://icemom.net/contests

H.B.’s embarrassing story-

H.B. -While mine didn’t really happen to me, but I was embarrassed. My daughter skates and had just turned 5. She was doing so well and the other mothers and I were talking about how she had made a leap in her skating.

She started dancing around on the ice as we all watched. I was thinking what is she doing….just then I realized she was peeing out on the ice! Next thing I knew the coach was bringing her over to the exit and telling me how I should make sure to wash her skates out too.

My face was bright red but my daughter just skipped to go get her skates off.

Ice Mom-

OMG! How did you put her back in the van/car? I tell you, Ice Girl would have been sitting on Ice Dog’s blanket.

Thanks for the entry!

H.B.-

On the way out I grabbed a bag from the snack bar, then made her strip down in the car. She wore a towel home. I swear I was debating which rink we could switch to and all she wanted to know was if we could swing through Mc Donald’s.

Second place winner-Helicopter Mom. Thanks for sharing your story. Just respond to my email to claim your prize. Helicopter mom won a pair of hard guards similar to the ones shown http://icemom.net/contests

Helicoptor Mom’s entry-

I am not a morning person. My darling daughter does not skate morning
ice and we are both lucky when I can get her to school on time 3 out
of 5 days a week. In fact, almost nothing will drag me out of bed any
earlier than necessary except… practice ice before a competition!
So, there we were at 6:30 or something (I know, I know – practically
NOON in skating time!) signing her in, turning in her music, getting
her gift bag… but mostly RUSHING to get her on the ice for practice
- because of course we were late and there was only 20 minutes left
(and that would include putting on the skates). So I turned in her
music and she ran off to put her skates on. As we see the coach he
asks if I turned in the music and I say yes. For a brief moment, I
think I should go back and check that I’ve turned in the right music
but she is in the first warm up group of the day so I can certainly
get back to that.

She got her practice in (practically a superstition for us) and went
off with the coach to warm up for her event. Event was (thankfully)
uneventful and we went on with the usual competition afternoon.
Watching, cheering, snacking, checking results, taking pictures…
until it was time (finally) for her second event. Now on the bright
side (in retrospect), no one else had signed up for that event in her
age group so she was actually skating an exhibition. There were
probably 5 or 6 kids in the warm up group, most of them doing
exhibitions, a couple maybe doing test maneuvers or something like
that. Anyway, since this event was in the afternoon (instead of early
morning), everyone had come out to watch – all her skater friends, two
non-skating family friends, a friend from school, even her
grandparents were there from Florida! And since it was an exhibition,
even I wasn’t nervous! What could go wrong???

They announce her name and she skates to center ice with confidence
and poise. The music begins and OH NO!!! THIS IS NOT HER MUSIC!!!!
THIS IS AN OLD PROGRAM!!! This music is from like 2 years ago!!!!
She stands there looking confused, looks over to her coach who sends
her to the referee (who, as fate would have it, was the coach’s
wife). As they confer, I have now gone into hyper mode – running to
the skating bag, taking out the CD case, pulling out the correct CD
(WHAT WAS I THINKING, TURNING IN THE WRONG MUSIC!!!!
AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!), and rushing down with the CD to the referee (who
of course gives me THAT look – you know, the one that says “You are a
complete idiot but because you are my friend I will never say that -
but I will never forget this and will laugh and laugh about it for
years!” Now, of course, all confidence and calm is gone. I am
shaking and I know there is NO way my beautiful daughter can possibly
concentrate enough to do this program without falling. And it’s MY
fault!!! They announce her name again and she did it. Managed to
pull it all together and skate a clean program in spite of that
horrible beginning.

But the best part of the story is that we were having it
videotaped… and they got it all on tape. So yes, I posted that
little section on You Tube under “Mommy’s an idiot!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owp2k40F2v8

Thank you all for sharing your stories. If you didn’t win don’t worry, we will have a new contest monthly and there will be many chances to win!

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Cake

Thank you! Yes, that was my daughter who let it all go on the ice. She just turned 6 and I swear everytime I see her dancing around on the ice I get a look of fear in my eyes!

Love the video HM! I don't think I have seen a mom run so fast before. LOL! I only wish I had a video of my dd, it could be used later in life for oh so many things

H.B. ~ Cake
icecoach

I tell you. I have not heard of anyone doing that before. I mean I have heard some weird things but that definately takes the cake. I don't think you can get more embarassing then that. Next time a student tells me they have to go to the bathroom maybe I should think twice about asking them if they can wait. Thanks for sharing!