{"id":5428,"date":"2012-01-16T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2012-01-16T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T01:51:21","slug":"on-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=5428","title":{"rendered":"On the ice…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not skate as a child. \u00a0I tried, but to no avail. \u00a0I used figure skates, hockey skates, molded skates…but nothing ever helped. \u00a0My ankles just seemed to turn right in and I would spend the majority of the time on my butt, or on my face. \u00a0Neither was fun. \u00a0Especially when friends were learning and getting better while I was not. \u00a0In Grade 6 I hung up those ugly molded skates and never looked back.<\/p>\n

And then I met Dan. \u00a0And he was an avid skater who asked one too many times for me to join him on the canal and so I decided to try again. \u00a0And the most amazing thing happened. \u00a0I could skate. \u00a0It had been 100 years, but I was skating. \u00a0Without very many spills in between. \u00a0Turns out, like most things in life, the negative attitude I had as a kid was actually my biggest obstacle.I could skate all along, I just didn’t want to.<\/p>\n

So we decided that Jaia should be introduced to skating while she was young so that she wouldn’t have the same experience as I did. \u00a0The thing though, is that with her turning 2 in the winter, I thought she might be a little young. \u00a0So we waited until she was 3. \u00a0We took her out a few times on those adorable little double bladed skates and she loved it, but they fell off at every turn. \u00a0When she turned 4, “Santa” brought her some skates with pink laces and she was in love. \u00a0We again went a few times, but we had just moved. \u00a0And we spent much of the winter unpacking and taking care of an infant – neither opening up a ton of opportunities for a lot of ice time.<\/p>\n

So, with that long list of excuses, we find ourselves again in winter with a 5 year old who is eager to learn to skate and a mama full of regret for having waited so long. \u00a0This weekend though, we made the decision to get off our heinies and get out on the ice. \u00a0No more excuses.<\/p>\n

And when we do something, we do it big. \u00a0This weekend that meant heading out to the outdoor rink in -20 to have our first family skate of the year. \u00a0Wes included.<\/p>\n

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We bundled up, brewed up a pot of hot chocolate and headed out into the seriously bitter cold. \u00a0My temporarily bare hands froze in seconds. \u00a0But once all skin was covered, we were good.<\/p>\n

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At first, Wes was loving his new skates. \u00a0But just like his sister before him, they fell off after 5 minutes. \u00a0So he walked. \u00a0And lasted about 20 minutes before he was too cold. \u00a0Dan and Jaia made it about 40 minutes with a hot chocolate break in the middle.<\/p>\n

Mmmmm…hot chocolate…<\/p>\n

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For a beginner, the bean is doing fantastic. \u00a0She doesn’t understand that when they are learning (and beyond), everybody falls, \u00a0so when she does, she takes it as a failure to be able to skate. \u00a0I, on the other hand, see it as a rite of passage. \u00a0And if you are outside, on skates, you are SKATING. \u00a0It only gets better from there…<\/p>\n

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I did not skate as a child. \u00a0I tried, but to no avail. \u00a0I used figure skates, hockey skates, molded skates…but nothing ever helped. \u00a0My ankles just seemed to turn right in and I would spend the majority of the time on my butt, or on my face. \u00a0Neither was fun. \u00a0Especially when friends were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,14,26,37,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}