Comments on: Tubing in the Winter http://sherralifelesson.com/tubing-in-the-winter/ Real life. Real lessons. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SherraLifeLesson.com » The Leaving http://sherralifelesson.com/tubing-in-the-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-9887 SherraLifeLesson.com » The Leaving Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:54:04 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/?p=2697#comment-9887 [...] I’ve just been really busy doing some blog design work in between recovering from the holidays and spending quality time with the family. [...] [...] I’ve just been really busy doing some blog design work in between recovering from the holidays and spending quality time with the family. [...]

]]> By: Sherra http://sherralifelesson.com/tubing-in-the-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-9350 Sherra Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:26:55 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/?p=2697#comment-9350 @julieann--My fondest winter memories are also in Michigan! It was there that we got a toboggan for Christmas and it was the first time I remember both my parents went sledding <em>with us</em> on a big hill behind our house. I miss those snow memories for my kids and that's why we try to visit the snow with our kids. :) @Peggy--The cold and ice without the snow is just not right. I've called Child & Family Services but you're too far down on the list on the no sledding abuse infraction. Hope you all find some snow and get her out there!! @julieann–My fondest winter memories are also in Michigan! It was there that we got a toboggan for Christmas and it was the first time I remember both my parents went sledding with us on a big hill behind our house. I miss those snow memories for my kids and that’s why we try to visit the snow with our kids. :)

@Peggy–The cold and ice without the snow is just not right. I’ve called Child & Family Services but you’re too far down on the list on the no sledding abuse infraction. Hope you all find some snow and get her out there!!

]]> By: Peggy http://sherralifelesson.com/tubing-in-the-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-9301 Peggy Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:28:38 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/?p=2697#comment-9301 While we do live in Illinois it's interesting because we are so far south that we don't usually get much snow. Ice we get, not so much snow. We did get about 3 inches last week and had a snow day but honestly it was too cold to go out in it for much time at all and it was very light and powdery so we couldn't make snowmen with it either. Last winter we did get one decent sledding snow and my son took full advantage of that but since my daughter had just broken her arm a couple of weeks before she didn't get to go. Therefore, she tells me that in fact she has never been sledding! So, we're looking for the next snow to let her try that out- poor girl, 15 years old and has never gone sledding! Call Child and Family Services on me... While we do live in Illinois it’s interesting because we are so far south that we don’t usually get much snow. Ice we get, not so much snow. We did get about 3 inches last week and had a snow day but honestly it was too cold to go out in it for much time at all and it was very light and powdery so we couldn’t make snowmen with it either. Last winter we did get one decent sledding snow and my son took full advantage of that but since my daughter had just broken her arm a couple of weeks before she didn’t get to go. Therefore, she tells me that in fact she has never been sledding! So, we’re looking for the next snow to let her try that out- poor girl, 15 years old and has never gone sledding! Call Child and Family Services on me…

]]> By: julieann http://sherralifelesson.com/tubing-in-the-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-9277 julieann Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:46:16 +0000 http://sherralifelesson.com/?p=2697#comment-9277 Our winters in MI were wonderful! The sand dunes of summer became the sledding hills of winter. We didn't have moving carpet to take us back up, but the city did come through and give us three luxuries: they installed ropes to hold onto as you walked the winding pathway back up the hill, they flattened and watered the snow to make a (free) ice rink for skating, and they kept a bonfire going on weekends. I loved it because there were no rich people or poor folks on those hills. Everyone was just a big kid having a ball and it was as much fun on an old inner tube as it was a handcrafted toboggan. And it was all free, free, free! Our winters in MI were wonderful! The sand dunes of summer became the sledding hills of winter. We didn’t have moving carpet to take us back up, but the city did come through and give us three luxuries: they installed ropes to hold onto as you walked the winding pathway back up the hill, they flattened and watered the snow to make a (free) ice rink for skating, and they kept a bonfire going on weekends. I loved it because there were no rich people or poor folks on those hills. Everyone was just a big kid having a ball and it was as much fun on an old inner tube as it was a handcrafted toboggan. And it was all free, free, free!

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