Hit the Slopes...Or At Least the Hill

If you are anything like me then you are probably getting the winter blues already. The dreary skies, cold weather, and streets and yards filled with snow. It's hard to think warm, happy thoughts in this kind of weather, but stay positive! You may not be able to have warm weather, but you can always do something fun in the cold weather. So bust out that sled and head the family up to the highest hill you can find and have some fun!

That's what we did this weekend: went sledding. We took our three-year-old son to a really good sledding hill and let him have some fun. And boy did he ever! The two steeper slopes he had to go down with mom or dad because he's so light he would just fly down those sides. But one of the not as steep sides, he decided he wanted to go down by himself. My son has no fear and will do just about anything. When he seen other bigger kids going down there by themselves, lying down on their bellies, face first, he decided he had to do this also. He absolutely loved it! Dad was, of course, down at the bottom of the hill ready to catch him or save him if anything happened, he even got ran over by the sled once! Every time our son got to the bottom he had the biggest grin on his face and started trekking back up the hill to do it again!

So if you are looking for something fun and really inexpensive to do, grab the family and go sledding! You don't need the really expensive sleds, just the cheap $10 plastic sleds did the job just perfect! In fact, they usually went down the snow hill better than the more expensive ones other kids had!