Live Young, Skate On!

Sometimes all it takes is a child's birthday party to bring out the kid in you. Since Allison's birthday falls the week before Christmas, planning a party where all of her friends could attend just wasn't in the cards this year. We ended up waiting almost a month after to throw her a birthday party, and she decided instead of doing it at home this year, she wanted to have it at the roller rink. A-OK in my book! Saves me from all the prep and cleanup. But then again, it also meant peer pressure into donning a pair of roller skates myself and joining in the party.

I really didn't want to, but my mom, who will be 60 soon, and Mariah, who has sworn she would NEVER skate again got out there,  I couldn't be the only bump on a log.

They stuck to the wall all day, but they got out there!

By the end, we skated 2 hours away, and I am proud to say, I didn't fall once :)

When is the last time you have put on a pair of roller skates?

Roller Skating!

This winter weather has been crazy! It is making it difficult for us to find things to do on the weekends. Normally we would be planning out sledding and tubing filled weekends, building snowmen or having snowball fights, but since it seems to snow during the week, then it all melts by Friday, we have had to find new activities to fill our weekends. My husband was flipping through the paper and saw that the local skating rink offered roller skating lessons on Saturday mornings. The only skates my kids have ever put on were those chunky Fisher Price plastic skates that you put on over your shoes, so we figured it would be fun to have them go to a real roller skating center and try it out.

A slightly heated debate started over who should get out on the floor with the kids. My husband thinks that if he falls and breaks a leg he can not go to work. I guess you need a fully functioning leg to sit at a desk all day. Apparently I don’t need my limbs because I’m a stay at home mom, so mine aren’t as important. In the end, we both agreed we would both suffer with broken body parts and each of us popped on a pair of skates. It turns out neither of us needed to. The instructors ended up kicking me out of Allison’s area and Mariah pretty much had herself a one on one instructor the whole time.

Allison took to it like a pro. Only a few tumbles, but otherwise, she was whizzing around like she’d been doing it for years.

 

Mariah on the other hand... Let’s just say that by the time we left I was ready to march into her old gymnastics center and demand my money back for 4 years of classes, because they surely didn’t teach her balance. Poor kid had the roughest time, and ended up in tears twice. I don’t think she’ll want to repeat her roller skating adventure any time soon.

I am really glad we went. I was nervous about skating myself, but it’s like riding a bike. Once you learn, you don’t ever forget how to do it.

And how about that Super Bowl? I’ll admit, I didn’t really watch the game, but the half time was pretty good! A couple of the commercials were pretty funny and we had enough food to feed an army! We’ll be eating left overs for a few days. Overall, a perfect ending to a great weekend!