When Lindsee arrived in Wichita last week, the first thing we promptly did all together... was go ROLLER SKATING, of course! The girls school has a skating party once a month and it just happened to fall on the first evening Lindsee would be in town staying with us. We ate dinner in a hurry, left Eric and Silas at home (Eric thinks he is a bad skater.), and headed to the skating rink. Parents always get to skate for free but so did Grandpas and Aunts that night! Thank you skating rink for allowing us some cheap family fun, laughs, and bruises!
My mom did NOT skate. She was the official picture taker and comforter to any one of us who fell hard on the wooden floor... which happened to all of us except my Dad. He managed to stay upright the entire time he skated around the floor, even going semi-fast, and holding hands with me on the couple's skate side by side, and then while I skated backwards he held both my hands and skated me around the floor! Wowsers, another talent! I am just glad he did not fall. We really did not need any broken hips, wrists, or fingers on him before the big wedding a few days later.... Too bad Mom did not capture any of the falls on camera. Even though they hurt like heck, who doesn't love to watch a good fall. I for one like to tuck those special little moments into the space in my brain where when I need a good laugh out loud, I recall some of those falls. (Heehehe, Matt, Eric, Dad, Lindsee - you know some of these falls I am referring too. Thank you each for providing me those little laugh out loud moments when I have so needed them over and over in my life.)
Sarah did a great job skating. She is getting better. She even made it around the floor a couple times with NO FALLS!
I love my sister and I love times when we get to be together and laugh and do silly things. She is so wonderful and we have so much fun together. I LOVE laughing with her!
Phoebe got to try new big kid skates for the first time and did not do so well. In the past she has gotten to use the shoe skates and the wheels do not turn as easily on them, so she was able to mostly march around the floor and not fall much. This time however, her feet had grown bigger and would not work in the shoe skates anymore so she got to wear the "real" skates. Consequently, she was on the floor almost all the time. Poor Phoebe. She had some big sad faces and tears a few times before she decided she had had enough and went to hang out with the "comforter" for the rest of the evening.
On the way home from the skating rink everyone was pretty tired... Look at those sleeper faces! Sleeping in the backseat with smiles on their faces. Almost like they were all laughing... I don't know many who can do that.
PS ~ When wearing skates and the DJ tells you to JUMP when the song says "Jump". Be very careful. This is not as easy as it may sound. I may or may not know this from watching my sister "try it" and my own personal experience.
PSS ~ I have no broken bones and neither does she.
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