As you might have already guessed, it was a crosscountry skiier and not a bigfoot bird who made the footprints in our previous blog.

I was quite convinced that the ski season was over for our family. But guess what? The snow came back with a vengeance, and we couldn't resist for another family ski day.

Some of you may have heard the old saying “Norwegians are born with skis on their feet”. The medals we are winning in this season world championships in biathlon and cross-country suggests that this is not just an idiom!

Yesterday no one in our family was in a ski lesson, so we set off to our local resort to enjoy a relaxed ski with friends.

So the baby has arrived and so has the snow. Some may see this as the end to winter sports but with a yearning for adventure I headed out on the cross country skis.

Both girls have been in a group ski lesson for the past four Saturdays, and the culmination of their course came today with the celebratory ski race.

I thought it might be helpful (for those Little Trekkers who are lucky enough to be heading off to the snow this season) to share a few tips on making sure your kids have a great time in ski school.

It can be difficult being parents to young children who have more years skiing experience than you do. But (even if I do say so myself), each year DH and I get slightly better at wrangling two small, manic skiers on the slopes. Our secret weapon this season was actually skiing without the kids a few times, before hitting the slopes as a family.

'Please mummy I don’t want to go to nursery, I want to come skiing'. I was getting a sneaky ski in whilst the girls were at school and nursery.

I was so pleased that Teagan wanted to keep on going. She was having her first ski lesson. Local children from Aviemore and the surrounding area get offered ski lessons throughout November at Glenmore Lodge's dry ski slope.