Southern Babies
by Sherra on December 29, 2009
in Finding the Funny, Teens, Tweens
You may or may not remember the last Georgia blizzard we had.
Winter in the South is a different kind of animal.
This is what happens when you grow up in the cold, cold Midwest but you birth babies in the South.
You take them to downtown Atlanta to beautiful Centennial Park for a little after Christmas ice skating.
They start whining like babies as soon as you start walking to the park.
Shivering and fussing.
Then, they see a line wrapping around the rink and they stop dead in their tracks and say “Okay, that was fun. Now let’s go home.”
Side note: The only person who didn’t whine and fuss was their friend Jordan who joined us.
Next, you try to calmly explain to your 10 year-old that her big sisters AND her father are total cold weather WEENIES and would she like to go roller skating later in the week even though she really, really wanted to try ice skating for the first time in her life.
And you snap a picture of her after she looks at the ice rink.
But you insist that everyone is going to walk through the park and enjoy the lights and walk to that giant Christmas tree that must be 1 or 2 city blocks away.
You force photographs while the 18 year-old Soldier girl WEENIES complain and try to make their teeth chatter from the bone chilling 40 degree weather.
Finally you get back in the car and head to Zesto for chili dogs and…
ICE CREAM.
The Next Day
Dad has weenie guilt and asks the darling twin who is always most agreeable (thank you Wizzy) to take her baby sister ice skating at an indoor rink just a short drive from our house.
She, along with her darling twin and four college friends, take Scary Baby ice skating in the indoor “much warmer” rink.
Ahhh, precious holiday memories.
Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and you are enjoying time with family and friends!
I’m taking a little blog break and will be back next week with more fun and frolic for 2010.
Thanks to each and everyone of you who leaves a comment or sends me an email. It’s what makes blogging fun.
Be safe and have fun as you ring in the New Year!!
Wow – they are weenies! It is about 1 degree in Roscoe this morning – and I don’t even want to know what the wind chill is. My front door here at the office was frozen shut this morning. It took 2 of us to get it open!! So cold your nose hairs freeze! Have a Happy New Year
Do I need to remind you that SOME of your readers are southerners? It doesn’t look like to me that your adorable weenies were dressed appropriately for outside weather and even though it might have been 40, I’m pretty sure it was colder than that with wind chill. Might think of that next time you head out the door for an outdoor winter activity. Folks up in the frozen north are a wee bit better dressed for these temps and tend to forget that we don’t need down jackets down here except for a couple of months out of the year. I think that’s why they all MOVE down here too!
And I can’t for the life of me imagine WHY anyone would want to work somewhere where their nose hairs freeze! LOL
Sherra,
I had a few complaints about this post. I don’t believe I whined that much. I think that might have been THE OTHER TWIN (the non agreeable one). Also I don’t believe it was forty degrees and neither does Jordan. So I’m not that big of a weenie. I’m just not a fan of the cold or ice skating. Just thought you should see your mistakes.
Your DD Lizzie
@Melodi–As you can see, Southerners get a bit cranky about cold weather
Oh, the days of freezing nose hairs…I don’t miss that! lol
@Melinda and @Lizzie–It’s perfectly okay to be warm weather gals. Just as it’s okay for a Midwestern or two to laugh about what you all think *cold* is. Lighten up. I love you both.