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Tonight the Pittsburgh Penguins will play the Detroit Redwings (BOO) in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. What’s that mean (you know, for my non-sports-loving readers)? It’s an all-or-nothing, do-or-die, winner-takes-all kind of game. (Hockey, people, hockey.) The winner of tonight’s game gets to take home the (sexy) Stanley Cup and retains bragging rights for a full year.
Kind of like how the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Wouldn’t it be nice to have dual-bragging rights… to make up for the occasional fleeting whiff of mediocrity offered up by our (beloved) baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates? (By the way, they’re currently tied for last place in the Central division. Swell.) I think so. As such, we’re kind of geared up for tonight’s game. And by kind of, of course, I mean “totally stoked.” As the game falls after TheBrothers’ bedtime (What? Your kids don’t have a bedtime? Mine do. Hush it.), I figured we would get in the hockey mood ahead of time.
First, we colored the Pittsburgh Penguins logo(ish) on a coloring page found here. See?
And, BigBrother got serious about it as well.
(I’d claim that I don’t know why he makes those faces but, well, that would be a lie. Anyone who viewed some pictures that I recently uploaded to Facebook from my junior year of high school musical will see that I’m, uhm, quite the performer. As such, BigBrother seems to have inherited my gene for, uhm, drama. Yes. That’s it.)
And because I have little to no ability when it comes to cookies (minus sprinkles on hearts), I couldn’t fenangle these awesome cookies. (I want a Crosby jersey cookie. Someone send me one.) We will, however, be cutting out some cookies in the shape of a hockey puck (you know… a circle) and baking them after supper tonight. I think (perhaps?) that I have some yellow food coloring to make the icing “gold” for on top of the “hockey puck” circles. I’m banking on the Penguins coming off with a win so that we can take our yellow circles hockey pucks home with us to The Farm in Pennsylvania tomorrow as a form of celebration.
And so, tonight, when the kids go to bed (jealous?), I’ll kick back and cheer on my beloved black and gold… quietly… because kids will be sleeping. FireDad, sadly, will be at the Fire Department. So, it will just be me, the glow of the television and lots of hope. (Sadly, no IC Light or Primanti’s sammich to make it a real Pittsburgh experience.)
And, since I can yell right now, GO PENGUINS!
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[By the way, I'd like to point out that I'm on Discovery Health's site right now for Baby Week. You can go here to view my smiling face but, if you'd rather cut to the chase, my birth stories are here. And, no, they don't involve hockey (though I'd love to read a birth story that somehow involved hockey... links?!).]
9 Responses to “We Cheer (& Color) the Black & Gold”
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My name is Jenna, aka FireMom. I blog here, 
Ooh! Pick me! The hubby’s favorite moment, right after Potato was born was when he took him into the little sitting area to let me get him rest. He said he spent the entire time explaining hockey, why he loves it, why the Flames suck and why the Oilers will always be the best team ever (even if they suck). He says it’s his favorite memory after seeing him come out
Enjoy the game tonight. I’d love to see the Pens hand it to Detroit.
Love the new look, glad that I checked
while I won’t go as far as to say I am a Penguins fan, I do have a strong disliking for the Red Wings (being an Avalanche fan). So I am Very happy to say Congratulations on the win!!! The penguins deserved it after all they have been through the past few years.
My daughter was asleep but hockey is the one thing my son gets to stay up late for. I have a post written by him all about the hockey season. He and I are working on it (he is almost five he cannot actually write but it is all his words). I think it will be up on Monday.
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Well I am happy for the underdogs winning … if it cant be the Canucks that is!
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here ya go..it was in today’s Post Gazette
http://www.wpxi.com/news/19747137/detail.html
the story was better on the actual news cast on channel 4 but this is as good as you get it I guess…
Twitter: firemom
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Oh, my goodness. That’s the best ever. (And, I do love Sidney for a girl. Always have.) AWESOME!
I love Creative kids, I am sure it was crazy time playing with colors, all kids love it!
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Twitter: katie_in_ma
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Congrats on the win! I have to say – I’m a Bruins fan (kinda obvious, no?), and then I was rooting for my Insignifcant Other’s Flyers (he’s from Philly), but then when all of our teams fell out, I started rooting for the Pens for you and BurghBaby.
But I did let the girls stay up late (through the 2nd period) on Friday (that didn’t have anything to do with the tornado warnings, I swear) and we partied with chips and dip and lots of explanations why we weren’t rooting for the Bruins. 
Soooo happy you won!!!
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