Relative Something

The team that I spent most of my youth loving to hate, the NHL Chicago Blackhawks, have won the 2010 Stanley Cup trophy. I couldn’t be more pleased. With my home team not even achieving the playoffs, I easily shifted my current allegiance to the team representing the city where my son has lived while attending college. It is also the favorite city of a couple of my floorball teammates. I was rooting for them the whole way and thoroughly enjoyed witnessing their team accomplish the championship.

We are riding a massive wave of accomplishments around here lately. I am very proud to report that my son has received a generous offer for employment at a Minneapolis based web technology company called Ratchet. The young man is putting his college education right to work.

Meanwhile, I learned just yesterday that he and his buddies have found a house to rent together in Bloomington. This comes on the heels of our daughter finding a new place of her own to rent in Minneapolis. The best part about that situation for me is that she believes there will be room to take the cat!

There are so many blessings to be counted around here lately, that I have run out of fingers and need my toes just to keep track of them all. It is interesting how the family issues tend to minimize the significance of the Blackhawks’ winning the Cup, but yet that victory really sweetens an already precious time we are enjoying around here lately.

Do I dare hope the streak continues all the way into the US soccer team’s competition in the 2010 World Cup that starts in a few days? I certainly don’t mean to be greedy. Why, I’d happily reduce my expectations down to just hoping for dry weather next week for my bike trip.

Congratulations, CHICAGO! Enjoy it fully for me, would ya?