It’s hard enough doing something without skates on,
And now you’re doing it by putting skates on and you’re going on ice.
It’s terrifying, and I hate to say it but once you put the excuses back and you go out on the ice,
It’s your time and for a mom, any time that we can get away like that, it’ll be worth it.
My kid was a squirt, in house hockey.
You know just like a regular hockey mom I was in the stands.
We all do the same thing you know:
 “Go get the puck, move your butt!"
We all scream at them and after one of the games he just kind of looked at me and he was like,
”Mom you can’t tell me how to play hockey if you don’t know how to play hockey.
So I actually signed up for a “learn to skate."
And I literally, with my friend Jen, skated with a bunch of five year olds.
And then we moved into learning how to play hockey.
And then more moms were saying that they would really like to try that. 
That’s how "Operation Hockey Moms” started.
I’ve got the bug. I play probably more than my kid does right now.
I fell in love with it right away. So much so that I just want to do it all the time.
I want to play every game and every tournament and everything,
But there’s also the home life balance that obviously takes precedence.
A lot of these women do have kids who play hockey.
My kids did not pick anything up as far as hockey goes, this is just something for me,
That my kids don’t know how to do, my husband didn’t know how to do, 
It’s just something for me.
I only have boys so as a mom it’s kind of hard as they get older to have something in common.
They're going to be teenagers soon, so now h’s kind of starting to trust me more than just as mom, I’m a hockey player now. 
Putting the pads on Sunday night for practice, it’s a more laid back environment,
Where just out here, we get to learn things, we’re blessed to have two amazing coaches that donate their time which is awesome.
And the rink gives us some time here.
I would say for the tournaments or the games it’s turned up a little bit because that’s a more co-ed environment.
And you get into a little bit of beast mode there.
I change completely. You know I put all that stuff on, and it’s a lot of stuff.
It’s pounds of gear, but with each thing I put on, I feel like a badass.
You’ve got all this stuff on, you’ve got this helmet and I have my goal, my house.
And its’ a whole different ball game.
The stereotypical “hockey mom” as opposed to any other kind of mom, would be more of a badass mom, not your basic mom.
She’s not going to be sitting around in yoga pants and going out for coffee with her friends.
You’re going to see her drinking beers and cussing with your friends after a hard game of hockey.
We’ve gone beyond just doing “Operation Hockey Mom,” that’s just a way we do fundamentals and learn basic things.
But then we’ve all branched out like all of the members for the most part have joined a team.
We do tournaments, we do leagues, it’s just, we’re all a big family. 
My favorite of this whole experience would have to be the people that I’ve met.
Besides the fact that it’s fun.
I didn’t know these women, and now I know everything about them and they know everything about me.
They know the good stuff, they know the bad stuff, and they don’t care, you know?
Hockey is a great community and I didn’t know how great it was until I got kind of thrown into it.
