We took Big skiing for the first time on his birthday. Neither my husband nor I are skiiers. I used to ski a bit when I could go for free with my high school students but I haven't skiied in 6 years at least because it's just too expensive a sport.
But, Big LOOOOOVED it! He laughed the whole time and he was actually pretty decent at coasting by the end of the day. The whole time, he kept saying, "I could do this all day, mommy!"
The only other time I've ever heard him say that was at the bike track...and all he ever wants to do is bike ride!
So it sounds great, right? We found another sport that he seems to really really like and wants to improve on.
I looked into lessons, though. Our best options are 5 weeks of lessons every weekend for about $320. Or we could do 3 days in a row during spring break for about $150.
That's a looooot of money for a sport that we don't really do ourselves so he probably won't get much chance to ski again after the lessons are done. Plus, its a huge time investment...it would be pretty much full day events by the time we got to the mountain and such. And then my worry is that if we sign him up for 5 days, he may decide halfway through that he doesn't really like it that much after all.
So what do you do? Do you encourage a really expensive sport even though you know you aren't going to pursue it very often just because he seems to really really like it? Or do you spend your money on other things?
Any thoughts?
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