Sledding Without Snow

Grass sledding in February.

Today I took my kiddos and some friends sledding. It was 70+ degrees Farenheit today and we went sledding! Grass sledding, that is. We are fortunate enough to have a nice little park by our house with a great hill. We usually use that hill to learn to ride bikes without training wheels or sled on snow. Today we discovered that our plastic sled discs are just as good on grass as they are on snow.

We took our sleds to the top of the slope and down they went. Everyone was giddy with delight. Children screamed with joy, threw their hands up in the air as they went down, and smiled until I thought their cheeks would pop. They literally ran up the hill with those sleds. They sledded alone, sledded with each other, sledded with the discs, sledded with cardboard boxes they found. They discovered how to make "sparks" by dragging their feet behind them while laying on their bellies (the dry grass would shoot out from their feet like sparks). They had races. They disagreed about whose turn it was. They agreed this was the most fun they'd had at the park in a while. It was a great afternoon.

Then we returned home. Let the chaos begin. I was going to write about that chaos, but you know what? I changed my mind. Let's leave this on a a good note. Let's stay at the park sledding down a grassy slope, smiling and having fun.