At The Rink

She trudged through the snow outside the warming house, her skates laced tight and double knotted by her mom inside the shed.  Ahead of her both of her brothers stepped from the piled snow surrounding the ice skating rink onto the ice, gliding away with hockey sticks in hand.  Back and forth they passed a puck, moving toward the net on the far side where the younger one smacked the puck at the net.

At four years old, determined to keep up, she arrived at the edge of the ice with a gleeful shout and skated off after the boys.