supervising from the couch: Snowshoeing

Friday, December 31, 2010

Snowshoeing

Yesterday Rob spent the day at the hospital with Robbie for a scheduled outpatient surgery of which I have no photos or post, at Robbie's request. Today Robbie was recovering nicely, and we all ditched him to go try out our new snowshoes up Millcreek canyon. In spite of the 10 degree temperature we had a great time, and the kids were smiling non-stop. I took 88 photos before my hands were too frozen to take another. I'm in the market for a pair of warm gloves with good mobility if anyone has any suggestions...

Here are a few of my favorites.

2 comments:

Melissa said...: Woohoo! Good for you guys. Next time can we come?; January 4, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Natalie Allen said...: My name is Natalie Allen, and I approve of this post.; January 5, 2011 at 8:18 AM

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here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.