Luckily for us, Isaac hasn’t been all that interested in hockey. We’ve kept him busy and active with swimming, soccer and basketball. Until this week, he’d never been on skates and I was hoping to keep it that way. But a school trip to the local outdoor rink and an afternoon spent on a friend’s rink made me realize that maybe I can’t hide him from hockey for the rest of his life. According to his teacher, Isaac buzzed around the rink with his classmates quite well, even refusing the supports because, in his words, they’d slow him down. On Family Day he spent hours in net blocking shots made by a pal’s two very talented young sons. All the way home from his afternoon on the ice, he kept asking when he’d be able to play hockey again. He wasn’t happy with my answer of “I don’t know”, because he’s now smart enough to know that it is my way of trying to change the subject. I do have my fingers crossed for a warm few weeks so that all the ice in the county is melted ...