we went ice skating with the cub scout group. we had been told of the outing weeks in advance & i was SO excited! um, Z was like whatever. i remember going ice skating once before when i was a kid, little, parents still married even. for some reason i thought i would be able to just glide out on the ice like dorothy hamill, not my fault girl made it look so easy.
i looked it up, it was the olympics of 76, so i was about 5 years old. i fell a lot. i cried a lot. then i said it was bull**** & i was done with it. [it really wouldn't surprise me if i said that, just so you know.] i remember my parents trying to goad me out to there again but i wasn't having any more of it.
flash forward many years & now that i have roller skating & roller blade experience under my belt, i was eager to try again. we were a little late, which you know, is what we do, so there were a few people there already giving it a whirl. beings it was a group of newbies they rented "EZ skaters" - walkers for ice skating for all intentional purposes.
Z borrowed one of those & headed out w/B while i held on to the rail for dear life. although B hadn't ice skated in a long time, it didn't take him long to get it back. Z was out there, fast, it didn't matter how many times he fell he just kept on going & before we knew it he'd kicked that EZ skater to the curb & was falling all about without it, but that still didn't stop him.
i got going, finally able to let go of that rail a bit as it was quite similar to roller blading. my calves would get sore really quickly though. i could do 2 laps then i needed a break. B tried coming along with me, but i couldn't hold his hand & skate, i needed to be on my own. the only problem was i didn't learn to stop, which can be troublesome. i little boy fell down in front of me & all i could do was yell to warn him of my eminent crash. B said i actually called out his name, i have no recollection of that, but he was right behind me & he grabbed a hold of my waist & slowed me down some so i didn't completely run over the little one.
it was a good time, although Z fell numerous times he didn't complain. i figured out i couldn't watch either B or Z skate as i would need heart medication. we'll put that one down as a win & hope to do it again soon.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
B's birthday weekend & another haircut story bc it's about that time of year....
B's mom & step dad came out for a visit for B's birthday. they arrived on weds, so B & the boy were able to drive down to the airport to pick them up in the afternoon. i didn't get to spend much time with everyone except for dinners, where we all ate like cavemen.
i don't remember what all it consisted of, but yeah, no vegetarians in this house. then for B's birthday, one of his classmates gave us coupons to a local casino's seafood buffet. yeah, let's gorge some more. Z ate plates & plate of crab legs, then a couple of deserts, then 2 MORE plates of crab legs. i was worried he might get sick on the drive home, he was fine though.
so on to the haircut story shall we?
one night Z's in the shower & mom-in-law says something about him taking a long time in there. i didn't really think much of it, but the next morning when i went to shave my legs i noticed the blade was on backwards. i'm not very smart so it took awhile for me to make the leap that the boy had been in the shower the night before.
alone with a razor.
& m-i-l had noticed he'd taken some time.
when Z got up i asked him if he'd used my razor & he said yes, he'd given himself a haircut in the shower. that he thought of shaving his arms & legs too, but decided against it. so i asked where? how? did he "give himself a haircut in the shower?" & he showed me [without the blade] how he shaved one side of his head, then the other, then the back.
the sides didn't show any obvious damage, the back however was shaved down to the skin. it was not a good haircut. B's first instinct was to shave his head completely, but the boy is much to light to sport that 'do. so for a couple of weeks we just let it be & the long hair for the most part covered up the bald spot.
i don't remember what all it consisted of, but yeah, no vegetarians in this house. then for B's birthday, one of his classmates gave us coupons to a local casino's seafood buffet. yeah, let's gorge some more. Z ate plates & plate of crab legs, then a couple of deserts, then 2 MORE plates of crab legs. i was worried he might get sick on the drive home, he was fine though.
so on to the haircut story shall we?
one night Z's in the shower & mom-in-law says something about him taking a long time in there. i didn't really think much of it, but the next morning when i went to shave my legs i noticed the blade was on backwards. i'm not very smart so it took awhile for me to make the leap that the boy had been in the shower the night before.
alone with a razor.
& m-i-l had noticed he'd taken some time.
when Z got up i asked him if he'd used my razor & he said yes, he'd given himself a haircut in the shower. that he thought of shaving his arms & legs too, but decided against it. so i asked where? how? did he "give himself a haircut in the shower?" & he showed me [without the blade] how he shaved one side of his head, then the other, then the back.
the sides didn't show any obvious damage, the back however was shaved down to the skin. it was not a good haircut. B's first instinct was to shave his head completely, but the boy is much to light to sport that 'do. so for a couple of weeks we just let it be & the long hair for the most part covered up the bald spot.
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