it was a morning spent with the kindergarten on an ice skating adventure. filled with tip-toeing on skates, scooting on boots, giving rides on cones, running on ice, holding hands, tumbling, crashing, laughing, noses running.
and all this, as our little hockey playing and figure skating kinders skate on by.
when it’s time to warm up with hot cocoa and donuts, they find themselves on equal ground, and they are all exhausted and so happy. and then, even our hockey players cry when it is time for moms and dads to leave, and for us to return to the cozy comfort of the circle rug in our classroom once more. and some of us feel newly discovered muscles in their legs the next day, that are apparently never used in this way, and take it real slow when going down the stairs.
I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace – Kathy Ireland
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I have my glasses on.... 
This professor found this to resemble the crazies he deals with daily! Only a Punchyish nature to conjure up such scenes. ARe you Punchyish?
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There’s those donuts again! You really should get shares in Tim Horton’s and Krispy Kreme … 🙂
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3 bones – i see a pattern emerging, but this time it may have been dunkin’ )
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oh, i don’t know, am i punchyish? help me to define it please, professor
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That one little dude you caught in the moment … future Chris Chelios! Great form, Kinder Skater. When my daughter was this age, she wanted to be like all the Colgate University hockey players we watched with our season tickets. Saturday mornings, learn-to-skate at the very same rink, she loved it. She went quickly from pushing around the chair on the ice to skating way better than I ever could. (I am an ankle skater.) Thanks for bringing back the memories of almost two decades ago, Beth. And careful on those stairs today, my sore-muscled friend.
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yes, you’re right about the little guy. it was great fun for everyone, and what makes you think it was me that stepped, ow, (i mean oh), so slowly down the stairs? you must be a reporter.
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I know now to read between your lines by now, Beth!
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Children have so much fun while playing without the constricting rules that adults play with.
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so, so true. just play for the sake of it. no agenda.
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awwwww, what a wonderful morning ending in hot chocolate and cocoa – does it get better than that!
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yes, that is a pretty universal ‘good ending’ to most things, i think.
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ksBeth–you describe childhood and its wonders with such verisimilitude. It’s a walk thru the Ten Acre Woods when I schtop in, and it’s “story-time”…thanks for Regress–the adult version of Recess maybe…;) my absolute favorite time of…well…life…:)
Though I like the hockey stories, too!!
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thanks, and i’m so happy you are enjoying the stories. ‘regress’ as adult recess is a great word for the phenomenon.
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I wanted to go and you didn’t invite me. 😉
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i’m so sorry, feel free to drop in for an adventure anytime )
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love those skating kitties!
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they look so sweet and innocent, but we all know kitties love to get up to mischief, which only makes them even more endearing )
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Aww! Great post!
Out of interest; how many blog followers do you have Beth? 🙂
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thanks so much sophie, happy you enjoyed it and my readership has grown slowly and by a few at a time over a year and a half, to a number somewhere more than my age now )
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At least you found new muscles in your legs……mine would’ve only been in my backside from falling. Ha.
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well, i found muscles in many places )
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Aww I want some coco lol
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stop on by for a cup anytime )
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🙂
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As you know i work at Home Depot. I still skated all day today though
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yep, those do not have to be 2 separate activities by any means
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Cute 🙂 my legs feel the same ( ad will be worse tomorrow) after 6 hours of smashing and lifting up ceramic tiles from chicken wire and concrete 😦 x I can ice skate but cant ski or roller skate…though then again I used to..perhaps not these days.
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yep, we just don’t bounce back quite as easily anymore, do we ?
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I am in envy of your students and your field trips, too! This is wonderful stuff and fantastic observations!
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i think i have as much fun as they do
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