No, Murray has not decided to repeat last year's heroic efforts to give the girls their own backyard rink.
don't be fooled by the smiles, these pictures provide a false impression of how much fun was really had!
Instead, we took them downtown to one that someone else has made. MUCH easier, especially since that's probably the only skating they'll do this year and it only lasted for about half an hour. They enjoyed it for awhile but it wasn't long before they were asking to go home.
Considering we spent at least an hour getting their stuff gathered up, dressing them apporpriately, doing a bathroom run, getting everyone in the car, driving 15-20 minutes to get there (plus the return trip), it hardly seems worth it does it?
They did pretty well considering they'd only been on the ice a couple times before and mostly just hanging on to a chair or one of us. They were gliding around a bit and had pretty good balance, as long as the skates stayed on. The straps weren't holding tight today and we spent a good portion of our time there rebuckling someone or other.
They liked seeing the bigger people skating around though so that gives them something to think about for next year. (Murray seriously doubts he'll want to try this again any time soon!) Next year we'll pick up some real skates and try again with ones that stay on the whole time. : ))
Things seem to be slowly coming together around here! I got a bit more wrapping done while Murray gave the kids their bath. Got the kitchen & bathroom cleaned up & Murray mopped for me (thanks hawney!) and got several loads of laundry done (now to get it all put away...). Oh! and I got my fudge made. Murray's been craving some chocolate sauce so I got a batch of that done too while he was sleeping in this morning. I thought it'd be tasty on top of our Belgian waffles with some strawberries on Christmas morning. I'm going to attempt to get one good meal into them before they raid all their Christmas candy.... if you consider chocolate for breakfast a healthy start (well I was thinking the waffles & strawberries would be nutritious at least!)
Church in the morning & company for supper tomorrow night, better get to bed at a semi decent hour so the morning's not too crazy!
Three more sleeps! (well, two if you're pysched up like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
1 comment:
Well - we haven't been ice skating or anything... but I *do* want to tell you that all of your snow fun has inspired me and I have taken the boys out three times on my own!! Takes a freakin' half an hour to get dressed... but it was fun! :)
Take care,
Kara
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