The Benefits of Growing Up Yankee | Southington, Connecticut Family Children Photographer

Written by Amber Sehrt on January 4, 2015. Posted in Children, Families.

8 year old girl in bright pink skiing down a snow covered mountain — Rockstar slowing down just enough to smile for me. She did amazingly well today.

I will totally admit that my heart broke a little when I realized that moving to Connecticut meant that my kids wouldn’t experience growing up in the South. The first time I heard Superhero call after a group of friends on the playground and say, “hey, wait up you guys,” I almost gasped out loud. In case you are wondering, the correct way to address his friends would have been “y’all” (at least in my mind.) But it is days like today that mend my heart a bit and make it ok that we have chosen to raise our brood in New England. You see, they got to go skiing!

5 year old boy in bright red winter ski clothes laughing with his skiing instructor — Superhero sharing a joke with his instructor. i’ve decided that there is a special place in heaven for the people that instruct the under 5 set. All types of behavior can be seen out there and they have unending wells of patience.

7 year old girl in bright purple getting ready to get on a ski lift with a group of other young kids — This was pretty early into the day, as Princess boarded the ski lift. At the end of the day she waddled over to me looking like a horse that had been rode hard and put up wet.

Skiing wasn’t possible in my childhood. Oh, we got a bit of snow in Southern Mississippi when I was growing up. . . twice, and about a half an inch. But I did get to experience this fantastically fun sport in my college years, and it really is awesome. Skiing is about as close to flying as we can get without strapping ourselves to some sort of machine.

5 year old boy in a read winter coat smiling while he makes a snowball in the falling snow — Superhero’s lesson was only two hours long, so he had a chance to make a few snowballs in the afternoon. He had more fun doing that than if I had let him loose in a toy store and yelled “it’s all yours!”

So being able to give my kids this opportunity every winter (hell, every weekend!) is amazing to me. They had an absolute blast and are currently sleeping VERY soundly in their beds. Yes, my little ones are growing up Yankee. But honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

The Benefits of Growing Up Yankee | Southington, Connecticut Family Children Photographer

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