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You may remember that we are getting ready to move house in a few months. We’ve lived in this house for goin’ on eighteen years, and saying that makes me feel like a geezer.
The thing is. . . there is an, um, an accumulation. An accumulation of CLUTTER! Good grief.
I am so glad I have teen age boys who are willing to clean the garage for room and board. They’re glad about that too. They’re kind of attached to the whole concept of room and board.
There was a big difference made in the garage last Tuesday.
The boys took a little break to try and hack into our ancient 486.
Remember this post about how to let kids learn to ride a bike on their own by taking the pedals off for a day? What a grand idea that was, except for the part where we couldn’t remember where we put Sally Mae’s bike pedals. That was a few months ago. My poor baby has been entertaining herself with her scooter all this time, patiently waiting for us to find her pedals and fix her bike. Poor kid.
Well, during the clean up the pedals were found! She’s been ready for those pedals for a long time. She hardly needed any help before she looked like an old hand at bike riding!
Look at her go!
I thought about being teary eyed over the whole thing. You know, my B.A.B.Y. has learnt to ride a bike! Then I realized that she is gonna be able to entertain herself for hours and get massive amounts of exercise, all with only minimal assistance from me. It’s a whole new level of freedom I hadn’t seen coming! I decided to chuck the tears and indulge in leaping.for.joy!!!
This is what I’m gonna do with some of that free time and space!
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Such great exercise! Way to go, T. Lynn!
Sally Mae and T.Lynn are on the same page this week. T learned to ride a bike this week too. She got interested some time ago, but then she got a scooter for her birthday and promptly forgot all about the bike. She regained her interest this week when the neighbor girls brought their bikes out. Now we can’t keep her off it.