We made it through the first week of school!! Yesterday we went shopping for our daughter's upcoming 7th birthday and we bought her a bike -- a big girl's bike -- no training wheels! It's a pretty ocean blue color with the fancy tinsel hanging from the handles. We also got her a new helmet in matching colors. We'll soon be a bike riding family which will be a huge milestone for us. Both kids learned how to swim this summer and now they will both be biking.
Our daughter is a passionate being...she always has been. From the time she was born she's had a personality that can fill a room. She and I are so opposite in some ways, and so alike in others. God will teach me as much as He teaches her along this journey. I have never been so involved in someone's life as I am my children. I tend to be a live and let live type of person -- with very strong values and beliefs of my own but was never the type to sway someone to my side...until I had a husband and children. Since their lives directly impact mine, and mine theirs it has been an active involvement with the kids from the time they could act on their own of giving direction, setting boundaries, and imparting wisdom.
My parents had a saying that if they could impart to us what they had learned and allow us to start from their shoulders instead of from the ground then they had done their job well. Like passing the Olympic torch I pray that I can carry it to the point where my children will take it up and run holding it high and carry it on to their children.
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Hear, here! :-)
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