IN THIS BLOG:
Muddy Buddy
Some thrifty summer ideas!
My experience in Psalms
MUDDY BUDDY!!
Last weekend, my very good friend Emily and I did a race as partners. Mike went with his friend as a partner and all 4 of us did it. It was an approximately 7 mile run/bike. You either ran 3 legs and biked 2 legs of a total of 5 or visa versa. In between each leg you had to do an obstacle of some kind. There were climbing walls, a balance beam, you had to crawl under a cargo net, and then the last one was a GINORMOUS mud pit!! Yes, we voluntarily crawled through a mud pit...see pictures for a good laugh! I did the 3 runs 2 bikes. Emily did the 3 bikes 2 runs. We had an absolute blast doing it and did an awesome job! We finished it in 1 hour exactly. Mike and his partner did a little better in finishing in 47 min with a minor "couldn't find the bike" mishap! At one point, I rode off on someone else's bike that ALSO had an orange bandanna on it and had to come back to find ours! What are the chances??? We felt very good when we were done and had truly accomplished something great! BONDED IN MUD! As her husband so eloquently put it!
Thrifty summer ideas...
I have been trying to compile ideas for some time now on things to do for the summer. In considering that our gas prices may be sky rocketing, the ideas are needing to be creative! I go to a group on Mondays called ipray and this was our topic of discussion this week. We talked about ideas for learning, games, day trips and other such ideas. I have also been toying with the idea of doing a cooking day where people can team up together and cook in bulk to freeze! We have a membership to the Orlando Science Center which also gets us into the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, so when we carpool, this becomes a pretty good little event. We also talked about getting an "after 2" pass to the water parks, or weekday only. Turning these trips into a little treasure hunt makes it a bit of a learning experience. I also will be doing a children's literature list with Madi and will do either audio books or read with her then do the movie! There are also several theaters that do dollar movies during the summer. I am so looking forward to this as I plan on part-time home school for the summer until our Washington DC trip. I will be covering Washington DC with her throughout the summer from Cantering the Country. If you have any ideas, please feel free to post here or on FACEBOOK!
My experience in Psalms...
Psalms stopped me dead in my tracks. I decided, thanks to my small group from church, to do an in depth study on Psalms. I have gone here to do this. I will not be doing Proverbs until I have finished this and I can see it may take a while. I will probably do the dame for Proverbs. In my discussions with people about reading through the bible, I can only say that I am barely scratching the surface. There is so much to this book of life that reading it through once hardly enables me to hold up a conversation though it is planting seeds. I know that however I decide to read it next time, I will have a better grasp than I do this time! I am also able to recall things right now that enable me to discuss. I am feeling like my initial endeavor to read through the bible has become more like a new addition to my life. I do love delving deeper, but I plan on doing this again after I am finished.
Moments...
-Emily and I finishing Muddy Buddy together accomplishing our goal of crossing the finish line laughing!! (Though I think we far surpassed our own expectations!)
-Visiting with my aunt and uncle from New Jersey after they came to suprise my parents for the anniversary party!
-My recent gain in the number of hours I sleep at night!! YEAH!
-Madison reading to Mackenzie at bedtime!
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