Yesterday we went to Pirate's Cove (swimming pool). A good time was had by all. But later Sam complained, "my cheeks are burning.". We asked why. He said, "the chlorine went through cracks that I had in my eyes and leaked down inside my cheeks." Man, I hate it when that happens.
I fell down our outside stairs this morning - oh how it hurt. We had some very wet snow which I had asked Matt and Sam to shovel before it froze. They did a half-baked job. I had fallen on bits of snow that were left on the stairs and then it froze. Sam kept saying, "I'm sorry Mom." He has a very sensitive heart and could almost feel my pain. I was not very gracious. I said, "boys if you had shovelled the stairs properly on that mild day I would not have fallen. Sam said, "well I am very sorry about that Mom but it wasn't really my fault. I was shovelling in my barefeet."
Today we went skating at the "Oval" - a speedskating track that is there for the Canada Games that Halifax is hosting in February. It was fun. It was cold. We saw a few of our friends AND we had a skating lesson. I feel a little embarrassed about this - but our kids have never had formal skating lessons. Since we decided early on not to do hockey and because lessons have always been at bad times for us, we never really thought about it. We skate on a lake maybe twice per winter. So the kids enjoyed their first formal lesson. Rather than stand around freezing I also took the lesson (it was a very laid back thing). The teacher was shocked at how quickly I caught on. I had to admit to her that I had years and years of formal training. I almost let it slip that my name was Dorothy Hamel but I was good - and I didn't show off my doing any triple axels either.
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