Let’s Play Hockey

After Sam's hockey practice today she left the ice wanting to skate more. We were supposed to have Adelynn’s game night since it was a rare instance of all six of us being home. We walked in the door, sat for dinner and Sam hesitantly brought up the request to skate with Adelynn who was so sad on Tuesday when we had to cancel game night. How would she take a second cancellation? With incredible excitement that’s how. We all raced through dinner, changed, geared up hopped in two cars and off we went.

Everyone was very excited to go play hockey. We all had our own agendas. I need to learn how to stop quickly which has to be similar to my pre-snowboarding days when I would go skiing. I spent most of my time shoveling the 3” of snow off the ice and playing zamboni between hockey time. Seth wanted to learn to skate in general. He gave us a lot of good laughs. Nick just wanted to shoot pucks and outskate the kids. Sam wanted to outplay Nick and to be our coach by setting up back to back drills measuring our speed and agility. Adelynn wanted to improve her skating skills which look pretty similar to Seth’s skills. Noah spent most of his time walking on his skates and falling. He resorted to ditching the skates and playing boot hockey.

It was a chilly 11° outside but we kept warm and had a lot of laughs. We’ll be going again real soon. Maybe even pull out my snowboard and hit the slopes with the kidlets.