I'm having the other hockey ladies over for a pizza and beer party tonight to watch the game. I'm excited because I haven't had many chances to bond with the girls so this will be a great opportunity to get to know them better. What are some of the best girls nights or trips other women have planned as a group while their men are on the road?
HW
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I hope you had a terrific time with the girls and that your guys won! :) It's always better when they win!
ReplyDeleteI love girls night out. I have a great group of friends that gets together when we can for a few margaritas or martini's.
My man is in the military and the wives have a great support system when the guys deploy. Although this time it will be different for me. He's deploying next month for 7 months; the difference is this time he's not with a unit that is deploying so I'll be depending on my friends for girls nights.
Glad to have you back! Happy Spring!
Not a HW, but rather a firefighters wife. I imagine we can relate on a lot of stuff though, as my husband is gone 3-4 days a week, and there is a lot of trust that is involved in a relationship where you spend so much time apart. I have certainly learned over the last few years the importance of girl time, and sadly I think too many women go without it! So many women think they should just sit at home and wait for their men! I love my husband, but won't spend my life sitting around and waiting! The world is too amazing to do that!
ReplyDeleteI have a group of girls (many are also firefighters wives, as we can relate well to each other) and we pride our selves on girl time! I even created a blog dedicated to fun ideas for ladies to do together! We often have theme parties when the men are working...80's parties, prom parties (you have no idea how funny it is for a bunch of girls to try to fit into your old bridesmaid dresses and prom dresses), comfort food parties, game night, etc. Mix some adult beverages, a theme and some hilariously creative girls and you are sure to have a good time!
So kudos to you and your fellow hockey wives for girl time! Never give that up!
I'm not with a hockey player or anything, I just really love the game. I actually got my girlfriends interested also! It's really gotten us all to bond. During the NBC games of the week they've come over my house to watch.
ReplyDeleteThe Stanley Cup playoffs are starting and I have the NHL package on my cable so I can get every single game. We're already planning out all the parties to follow all our favorite teams including our hometown team that just barely made it. We don't think they'll go past first round but we're very excited.
Everyone says that guys bond over sports, but I think that women definitely do too. I'm a senior in high school and some of my fondest memories from this year have been the times my best friends and I all sit around the tv and watch a game :)
We do wine night just us girls where we each bring a bottle and cook dinner together. Sometimes we will bring magazines or movies and when the bachelor/bachelorette is on we watch and take bets.
ReplyDeleteI think the thing I miss the most during the off-season is 'girls night' with the wives/girlfriends. We just got back from our first season in Europe ... three of the four wives were pregnant so we weren't able to do many wine/beer and movie nights. Bummer! Have a great time!
ReplyDeleteI love the girls nights we get to have during the season and miss them during the summer.
ReplyDeleteLast season we did a makeup party where 2 makeup artists from a high end dept. store hosted us at their friend's wine store. They did each of our make-up and we also got to taste different wines and champagnes (they even had unique brewery beers so the guys got something out of it too!). After that we all went for dinner and then a lounge. We also had the option of buying the makeup too.
I would also suggest getting a group together to do some cooking classes, that case if anyone is prego or doesn't drink then they can be involved too. This would be a good beginning of the season ice-breaker.
My former team (we got traded just before the deadline) had a really great group of girls who usually got together to watch the away games. It's kind of nice to hang out in sweat pants and no make up instead of always having to dress up for games! We ususally ordered food from the same place and drank wine.
Good luck, be creative, and enjoy it :)
Oh definitely when my hockey husband is on the road. It definitely gets hard. But our team arranges with us to have a short video chat with the players and there wives. But everytime their is an away game all the hockey wives always have a get together at someones house. Always a lot of fun. Until one of the players husbands get hurt or they do something bad. But its fun when your hubby scores!
ReplyDeleteRead this blog post about a girl who wants to "snoop" around in her boyfriends life to make sure he's always doing the right thing...http://mypetrichor.tumblr.com/
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When is snooping okay? When do we, women, cross the line? I’m one of those girls that likes to say that “I’m not jealous.” In reality, I am. Maybe I can only admit that because this is an anonymous forum…but, whatever…I’M JEALOUS! I want to know everything and everything about the guy that I’m dating…which girls he talks to throughout the day on the telephone/in text, on a computer chat, etc. Although I want to know all of these things, I hold in my minds and my desires. Holding these things in drives me NUTS and ultimately leads me to believe he is talking to girls on a daily basis that I don’t know about. I always WISH I had e-mail/Facebook passwords and access to their phone whenever I want it…I may not look, but the ability to be able to look would make me feel comfortable. I’m not sure how to fix this; do I ask him to tell me every little detail and make myself look crazy OR do I continue to hold it in?
To play devil’s advocate, I think if a guy was to give me access to all of his personal information I would automatically think he’s smart enough to delete anything that would make me upset. I guess the search will always continue.
After writing this and getting it out, I feel crazy. Crazier than ever! Are these normal feelings? Am I not ready to be in a relationship? Where do these trust issues stem from? SOMEBODY…HELP!
I read her post and, unfortunately, can relate to her. I think you should talk about this in your next post, HW. I think this person is going through some things that a lot of women go through...I am guilty of snooping through my boyfriends phone while he's in the shower (no judgment, please!). HW, if you can relate...let's talk about snooping (which, I think is the equivalent of NOT trusting the person you're with and never being satisfied until you catch them doing something wrong).
Sad, but I feel like everyone goes through it!
So I hear the hockey wives were rated "who is the hottest hockey wife?"...So my question is what do you ladies think of being voted "the hottest hockey wife?" or not?
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ReplyDeleteI don't know where Anonymous 5:26 heard that, but I did hear something about this story on a country radio station. They were talking about Carrie Underwood being one of the wives (or future wife) being rated. They mentioned an actress as well, whom I cannot remember. It wasn't an interesting enough story for me to want to look into it further.
ReplyDeleteIve only ever snooped in my hubby's checking account to see how much $$ he's burning. We've talked about cheating, and when it comes down to it, he knows his sons will want to live with me! That gives him some serious incentive to keep his nose (and other body parts) clean!
ReplyDeleteI recently looked through my boyfriends phone...it made me feel awful (especially because I saw something that wasn't good...it wasnt BAD it was just something he should have told me about). He never tells me anything...he keeps everything a secret; an ex called him, he didn't tell me...he ran into another ex, he didn't tell me. I'M GOING TO BREAK DOWN!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI don't trust him anymore and I don't know what to do.
My guy has a best friend on the team, so naturally, when we started dating, the bf's girlfriend was introduced. We have been almost inseperable since. We go on the road sometimes with our guys to cheer them on, but otherwise for away games we hang out together in our pj's or track pants, eat a pint of ice cream and yell and cheer at the tv screen. Funny story, we broke open a bottle of wine together during a home game that we were watching at our place, and when the guys came home after the game, they found us curled up together in our bed, passed out. lol. It's comforting to know that even though the NHL schedule is nuts, and I can't always spend my time with my guy, I have my friends.
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