I love my girls
Often my big girl will complain that we don’t have a car. Usually this is formed as a statement along the lines of "I am the ONLY one at my Gan (kindergarten) who doesn’t have a car! Oooofff." I remind her that there is at least one other person, who is a friend of hers that also doesn’t have a car. That generally doesn’t have much of an effect, but it helps.
Yesterday the mother of a friend of my big girl called to invite her daughter over to my house. Aside from being a bit shocked I said okay and we said we would meet at her afternoon program. When I got there I told her that first we would be walking to pick up my younger one, and then we would walk home. Her mother asked her if she wanted to go later when we would be home, or if she wanted to walk. She agreed to walk.
So we start our regular walk…it takes about 10 minutes to get to the childcare, five to ten minutes to pick her up and another 15-20 to get home (depending on everyone’s mood). Needless to say, this child was not used to this type of exercise. Every two or three minutes she asked how much farther. And on the last section (which is actually a reasonably steep hill), she said “you do this every day? I answered yes, and thought about how proud I am of my girls. Although I can’t say they don’t complain, they accept the facts and are probably in much better shape than their classmates.
