Day 177: 5 Things for Friday, 21

1. A great bike path somewhat close to the house...now I just need all 3 children riding bikes! In my great city, a bike path has been established. It runs all over the city & for most of it, it does NOT run along side roads. It feels "safer" than having the children biking through the busy neighborhood (no cul-de-sacs here).

2. Despite the constant ups & downs of Steve owning his own business and learning the ropes to contracting, we have been very blessed in so many ways. Every time a new issue pops up (or drama llamas as I refer to them), I still have the peace of knowing that we are going to be just fine.

3. My oldest daughters very mature decision. I related to her about my desire to use her decision about girl's camp as a learning opportunity on the power of prayer. She agreed & we prayed. I waited until after our prayer to learn what her decision was, but she did have one before we started. (hope that made sense). Anyway, her decision was to find out if there were any other YW who were also 1st years in her predicament (being a party of 1). If there was, then she will attend this year. If there is not, then she will wait to go next year with her friends. Pretty darn mature. I am not sure if I would have made that decision at age 12, but she did.

4. Spoiling my kids. No, not spoiling them in the sense that they can do/get anything they want. Trust me, I am a meanie when it comes to that. Spoilage as in taking them to the movies because we want to see the movie and want to share our love of the subject with them. No, I am not talking about Iron Man (we are actually NOT Iron Man fans). No, I am talking about the new Star Trek movie. It was awesome, BTW. :)  Our children are Trekkie's too, they got all the little references in the new movie and loved it as much as we did. So very cool.

5. My children's hard work on our flower beds. The ground is really hard in spots and we have really large flower beds (inherited, not created by us). We don't spend a lot of time each day (only 10 minutes), but they work hard for the entire time and without complaining! I will bask in this for as long as it lasts!

Happy Walking!

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