After yesterday’s successful sledding adventure, my kids and I weren’t particularly content to stay inside today. We’re supposed to get a ton of snow over the weekend and it’s going to get pretty cold so I took my girls out again. This time we couldn’t get to a large park with organized sledding, but that didn’t matter. We took our little sleds and headed around the block to our little local park. We’ve gotten so much snow this winter that a lot of places have enormous piles of snow which have been created by plows clearing the streets. One such pile was right up against (and over) the fence at the park so we climbed up and slid down into the park itself.
We did that for a while, then took a break to go play on the swings which is always fun in the snow, then we went back to sledding again. My youngest wasn’t too interested, but she sat on top of the hill and cheered us on as my oldest and I held competitions to see who could get down the hill fastest and who could go furthest.
We ended up being there for almost two hours. It was exhausting but an awful lot of fun.
I’m still looking forward to Spring, but I have to admit that Winter isn’t always all bad when the temperature is decent and you’re in the action with your kids.
译文:
为人之母的简单快乐
继昨天驾着雪橇出门冒险之后，今天我和孩子们都无法满足于待在家里。我们应该在周末天气变冷的时候多玩一会儿雪，所以我带着女儿们来到了室外。这次我们没有去有组织人们滑雪橇的大公园，但这些都没关系，我们拖着雪橇朝街区的公园进发。因为街上有推雪车的清扫形成了很多雪堆，我们弄到了足够多的雪。在公园篱笆旁正好有个高雪推，我们就爬上去一溜烟滑进了公园。
我们玩了一会儿“滑雪梯”后休息了一下，接着又去坐了好玩的雪地秋千，然后又去画雪橇。我的小女儿不是很感兴趣，但她坐在小山上为她的妈妈和姐姐加油，看谁滑得快，滑得远。
我们玩了近两小时才回家，尽管精疲力尽但乐趣无穷。
我也同样期待春天的到来，但我得说：只要在温度适宜的天气和孩子们出来活动一下，寒冷的冬天也可以其乐融融。