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Tenacious, Yes, but Forget the Lipstick
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She gave 50 of them to like-minded friends and ordered another 50.
"It just came to me one day in the shower," said Farha, of Potomac. "I wanted people to know that not all hockey moms necessarily agree with Governor Palin," she said.
How Palin's vision of pit bull hockey moms fits into the hockey world of Washington is debatable. Chris Kelly, president of the Reston Raiders, jokes that "anyone who doesn't think hockey moms are pit bulls hasn't been around this club."
But not all hockey moms see such ferocity in themselves. Reyne Salacain, 46, an Ashburn mom of two hockey players, puts it this way: "I was kind of thinking more of the dog I have, a retriever. You go and get things all the time, and you're warm and friendly."
No one seems to doubt that a life of hockey requires a certain tenacity.
With three seriously hockey-minded children, Colleen Thompson said that in the past year she has been to 160 hockey games. Maybe 180, she amends.
"Too many," she said with a laugh.
Thompson has two part-time jobs, as an office manager and a Realtor, which allow her to take long tournament weekends when they come up.
The odometer in her Toyota Highlander reads 57,800 -- nearly all "hockey miles" -- logging not only local play in Rockville, Bethesda, College Park and Laurel, but also trips in the past year to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Rochester, N.Y., New Jersey, Connecticut, North Carolina and Florida.
Last year's cost for four travel teams her three children played on: about $40,000, including out-of-town travel expenses.
There are nights when she finds herself driving down an interstate with sleeping players in the back seat. Sometimes she asks herself, bemused: "What are we doing on this road right now? This is insane. This is too much."
There is a toll.
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