Ever have one of “those” days, where even the simplest thing goes wrong?
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Author: Dean Reeds
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Family Snowball fight
What’s better than a family snowball fight? Watching another family duke it out in the cold while you stay warm and cozy in front of YouTube! What starts out as, “parents vs. kids” snowball fight quickly turns to, “everyone against dad”. And mom’s got a mean sinker-ball. Nothing says, “I love you” quite like an icy cold snowball to the crotch.
It was Carrson’s birthday during lockdown, so we were looking for fun things to do. I thought the kids would get a kick out of cutting my hair with electric clippers. Turns out that using hair clippers is an acquired skill! And I was the practice doll 🙁
Inspired by Scotty Cramner’s YouTube BMX channel, we built a front yard obstacle course. But we may have made it too tricky!. Watch to the end to see the how it ends after 3 days and more than 60 attempts.
It’s been a tough winter for young families, to say the least. So this short backyard skating rink video is a real win for us.
My 4 year-old son learned to skate and also found a love for hockey this winter, despite the isolation, no play-dates and lack of organized sports. Not to mention the stress, fears and the local rinks shutting down.
Christine and I decided early in the winter that the “stay at home” orders for our province weren’t going to rob our kids of a “normal” winter, so we put in our first ever back yard ice rink to help the kids keep active and occupied this winter.
Well, Turner was a complete beginner on skates and flopped like a fish while his older brother skated circles around him. Carrson had learned to skate a few winters ago with the benefit of skating lessons and we played shinny a few times a week at the local outdoor rink for the last two winters.
Little Turner had none of those advantages this year but he buckled up and decided that he was going to teach himself to skate and to play ice hockey!
Our back yard ice rink only lasted a couple of months but Turner was out almost every day, lots of times 2 or 3 times in a day. Always the last to get off the ice.
I have so much respect and admiration for him!
I hope this little video helps a few people realize that even in these weird, hard times, we can still learn, grow, accomplish our goals, and have a ton of fun along the way.