Category: Thoughts & Memories
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Taking trial lessons at the skate club
After going to public sessions for a few weeks, eventually we decided to take trial lessons at the local skate club. Like most parents actually, I could’ve just signed my kid up for lessons, but I decided to join her, because I had been on the ice with her from day one, and frankly, I…
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Ice Skating in Vintage Skates
I really wasn’t keen on spending a lot of money on new ice skates, so I decided to start with a pair of vintage ones. I had searched my mom’s whole basement for my old skating boots, but didn’t find them. So I was a bit frustrated, but also in kind of a nostalgic mood,…
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My 3-year old took her first steps on the ice
My little on took her first steps, or more like… her cute little clumsy sliding attempts, on the ice in Germering, a small town near Munich, where the rink is open again. Germering is one of these suburban places where, for the most part, there’s nothing much to see except the Soviet Union-esque concrete buildings…
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Crazy for Ice.
My daughters very first steps were on the backyard pond. It was an incredibly cold and windy day on Christmas 2021. It was not a happy Christmas, it was very quiet, sad and overshadowed by a family tragedy actually. The snow had covered everything with a thick layer of calm, and snowdrifts swept across the…
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My kid wants to figure skate…
Since we returned from Sweden, fall 2021, my kid wants to figure skate. We spent three months there after I completed a long-distance hike in the Swedish mountains. Since we lived in a semi-remote cabin in Skåne, and I had a lot of things to do around the house, I sometimes let my daughter watch…