Evening Adventures

They are gaining confidence on the ice, we saw it tonight. It is important because if they are invited to a skating party, they need to know how to skate safely. They have to be able to skate forwards and backwards by the end of this session. They haven't started with skating backwards yet.

@Juliaacv I love skating but it's just roller skates. I have never tried ice skating yet because we don't have a skating rink here. We did many years ago but it was too small. Only for children.

The full moon looks pretty cool here tonight. We have alot of passing cloud cover, so it is 'spooky' looking and it is as orange as a wheel of cheddar. Watching the littles skate was alot of fun, lots of tears and some smiles, our son's twins didn't cry tonight because they knew that we were coming to watch.

Willow cried a little before going on the ice, but she quickly stopped when she saw Grandpa and I. We were just a little encouragement, and she did quite well tonight, much better than last week her parents told us. My son told me that doesn't remember learning to skate, just that he always knew. I laughed at him and told him that when he was in JK, it was full days but every other day. We had an arena in our neighbourhood, so on the off days from school, I would pack him up in the car and take him to the free skate and I wanted to, and did, teach him to skate-no chairs, no leaning posts, just him and me. I cannot skate any longer due to my severe osteoporosis, so I had to donate my skates, but I would have them each skating within a month of one on one. They will get there with their Saturday family skaing sessions. I hope that the baseball game is a good one tonight.

No, I don't like going out at night either, but my husband does the driving, which is safer. It was worth getting all bundled up and going out the girls were beaming with delight when they saw us and waved and smiled. I haven't seen the chicken dance done in years, but they did it on their skates tonight.

It was alot of fun. They are getting a little more confidence on the ice. They are the tiniest kids out there, the others are 7 or 8 years old.

They sure did have FUN tonight, so did we.

Yes, they take ice skating lessons. Helmets are mandatory as are single blade ice skates. When they began, they were so small that they had to wear those double bladed skates. They've come so far.