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my dear friend(in fact a roommate from college) over at mauch meanderings has been blogging about her walking plan. she bundles up all of her kiddos to walk her oldest to school. i believe she said it was a half-mile to the school which means 2 miles a day.

well, i too walk my child to school. okay, so i walk him to the bus stop. but...the year before he went to kindergarten i had great plans of walking him to the neighborhood school 1/2 a mile from our house. i, too, thought it would be a great way of getting my exercise in. well, we built a new school which forced redistricting and we ended up at the new school which is more like 3 miles from my home. so now he rides a bus.

princess and i enjoy the walk with him every morning. i'm too worried about weirdos to let him walk it by himself. it is only 1 1 /2 blocks, but not visible from our house. so each morning we make the treck with him and in the afternoon oscar our dog makes the treck with us for pick up. so i figured i get about 3/4 a mile in a day with just that. not quite as good as i had hoped...

but....her blogs and our little life, got me thinking that we really need to all learn to walk more. i know most people live out in the suburbian subdivisions but i live in town. so even in the cold we walk to the library once a week. we walk to the coffee shop. we walk to the bookstore. hubby even walks to work a lot of days.

there really is something refreshing about just enjoying the fresh air and taking the time to get where you are going. the funny thing to me is that i can walk to the library faster than it takes me to load the kids, drive there, find a place to park and unload them. so....i know it is getting colder...but get out there and walk!!! take some time to enjoy the creation God intended for us to enjoy and slow down.....

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Kevin Flick said…
i like walking too b/c you see the details of the beautiful homes along the way too! things you wouldn't notice if you were driving quickly by. :)
November 21, 2007 at 7:24 PM
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