Some serious pond skating happened during the month of January. The weather conditions were perfect, so great in fact we hardly spent time inside. When the boys came home from school we would all skate till after dark and when the hunger pangs became too strong, we would reluctantly head inside for supper. Friends joined in on the skating action making wonderful memories for all of us.
Having issues with most sports, I had decided while growing up that skating was not my thing but last year I managed to skate across the pond with wobbling legs and a thumping heart. This year I became confident and even took up playing hockey. It kind of shocked me. But the pond had a huge problem. Earlier this year beach flooded and froze over making a ramp onto the pond. While the boys loved tying their skates and taking off down the ramp onto the pond, I abhored it. The thought of gathering speed and my legs flailing out from under me, causing a face plant on the ice, was very real to me. Every time I went skating I would have to slide on my knees to the edge of the pond and then some how try to get up on my skates and look graceful while doing it!
Three days after I took this smiling picture of Adam, he did a spectacular fall on his newly sharpened skates. He came inside holding his hat under his eye, just covered with blood. It was a shuttering sight. After we determined where the cut was and tried to clean him up he headed off to the hospital for stitches. His eye turned into a dark crimson purple and swelled right up. By Sunday it looked like he had been in the fight of his life. He skipped wearing his contacts and put on his glasses to disguise the horribleness of his black and purple eye but it didn't deter the enormous amount of comments. We both heard, "hows the other guy" and "what did your wife do you this time" more times then we thought possible. Adam and I just smiled and did a half- hearted chuckle each time. What else can you do?!
We did get a good laugh out of: "are you trying to keep up with your boys Adam?!" But we thought the funniest comment of all was: "your family really needs to consider making your barn into a ER!"
Watching dads tie skates reminds me of dads taking their children fishing. It is a lot of work for them!
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