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my derby name unveiled

Oh yeah - I forgot that I have yet to reveal my skater name…
After a wonderful evening with friends … wine, appetizers, wine, yummy dinner, wine … Kris came up with a list of names for me to try on. The top two of the list that weren’t already taken were “Strawberry Shorthate” & “Sinnerfold”. [...]

1st scrimmage

Had my first scrimmage last Sunday. I’m the big girl next to the hot little thing in black - her name is Spicy - and she’s awesome. I may be mistaken but, I think she has a 6 month old daughter. Uh - yeah. These chicks are A-MAZING!

After seeing myself in white I now know [...]

where have we been

Besides the excruciating task of finding a new nanny, tons of great work for BlaseDesign and packing for our trip to California for the holidays I decided to do roller derby bootcamp last weekend - an entire weekend of skating, training, hitting, and scrimmaging (the first time ever for me and my other primer-friends). It [...]

sad

After fourteen months of devoted service, our Elizabeth is leaving us.

She is headed back to Dallas and we are incredibly sad to have to let her go. She has helped us raise Harrison and Finn for over a year.
We feel incredibly lucky to have had her for as long as we have and she will [...]

where to begin?

Back in the ’80’s at The Golden Skate?
No - everybody has been to at least one roller skating birthday party in their lifetime. No… it probably begins with my first pair of Roller Blades. I know just how dorky my husband thinks they are, so, we will spare him the embarrassment and skip over the [...]