Love WINTER!!
Be that person that wakes up in the morning, and decides that Winter is filled with fun beautiful escapades. It is always hard for me to listen to people with the winter blues because I love it! I have loved it since my very first one. I understand it’s cold, and if you believe there’s nothing to do during the winter, then yes, of course you won’t like winter.
Disliking Winter is easy to do if you let yourself. It hasn’t always been a honeymoon stage between winter and I. I certainly felt like I could go without it back in 2007-2010, when there were so many more unknowns, so many other things that just made my life so crummy, and I took it out on Winter. It was the easy escape goat, especially since everyone else seemed to dislike as well. But, now I wake up every Winter day feeling refreshed, longing to get out and play on the ice, go down the hills, explore and SO MUCH MORE!
If you are trying to think up ideas on how to get outside and have fun, here are a few of my faves:
- Take your friends/family tubing!
- Go snowboarding, even if you don’t know how
- Learn to skii
- Go cross country skiing
- Go ice skating
- Play a little pond hockey pick up game
- Snowshoe your favorite trails
- Sled down some sweet hills…like Elver Park š
- Watch a snowfall by a fireplace or have a snowball fight – you are never too old for this
- Build a snowman, snowwoman, snow sculpture, backyard igloo
- Put some snow boots on and go explore your nearby Winter Festival – THERE ARE PLENTY!
if you let it
You can pretty much do anything fun outside as long as you’re willing to, and provided you are wearing warm clothes. One note on snowboarding/skiing/hockey/ice skating, especially if you’ve never been before. Be careful when you get on the ice if you go on a neighborhood pond, read online what their safety standards are, especially if the weather hasn’t been consistent, and check to see if they are open. For snowboarding/skiing, yes, it is true, places are able to make their snow. However, that doesn’t keep the snow from melting, even a slight melt will cause the snow to turn into ice, and when/if you fall it will be on ice instead of some nice fluffy snow. It is always important to bundle up, and you can bet if I am going out on an adventure I am not leaving without my hat, gloves, and scarf.
Candlelit hikes 
Snow Sculptures 
Cross Country Skiing 
Ice Skating 
Adventures at Tenney 
Snowshoeing 
Pond Hockey 
Hiking – Indian Lake Park 
Winter Festival – Edgewater 
Hockey fun
I hope you can enjoy Winter as much as I have enjoyed Lindsey Stirling’s “Warmer In The Winter” album…