It's Official - I've Hung Up My Skates

Forgive me for what's about to be an emotional post.  It's confirmed - I've hung up my skates.  I've been wanting to take the kids skating for months and we finally scheduled the whole family to go to tonights session.  Now, the last time I was on skates was 2 years ago and I was whipping around the rink, even crossing over {that would be putting one foot over and in front of the other when turning a corner}.  Can I just admit right now how delusional I was to think that I could:

a.} Hold a 5 year olds hand during their first time on skates
b.} Cross over or do anything even close to that
c.} Make more than one lap around the rink

My 5 year old girl did me a huge favor when she started to cry and pulled free to hang on to the wall and get back to her Dad.  It was then that I sadly realized that my legs were completely unbendable from my knees to my ankles.  How I got around once is nothing short of a miracle.  In that lap I was scared I was going to fall, hysterically laughing at myself and getting choked up at the fact that something that was once so easy and fun is now something I've become incapable of - all at the same time.  So I did what any other girl turning 38 on Saturday would do...I pulled my skates off and told my husband, "Who wants to skate anyway.  Skatings dumb."  :)