Jeremiah just completed his first 5K. I’m so proud of him, he ran the whole way. I’ll post videos soon.

Jeremiah is doing P90X with his dad. He just did 10 pull-ups.

Intent on passing the blame for today’s bad behavior on someone else, Sarah is mumbling and grumbling to herself.  She sounds angry.  She just said, “We could have been good all of our lives and not ever gotten spankings if it weren’t for Adam and Eve letting sin into the world!”

Trapped in a hotel with no heat source?  You don’t need a campfire to enjoy silly songs and s’mores.

All you need is:

graham crackers
marshmallow fluff
chocolate frosting

Napkins… lots of napkins.

On Thursday, we took Jeremiah and Sarah on a tour of Ft. Leonard Wood.  We drove around the neighborhood, the elementary school, the gyms, pool, bowling alley, movie theater, parks and mini golf course.  Jeremiah got his hair cut at the PX… that won’t happen again.

We introduced the kids to a few important terms:

PX  (Post Exchange) - A little like a department store or a strip mall.  There’s a food court, pharmacy, Sprint store, barber shop etc.

MiniMall – This is the new location for Military Clothing Sales (uniforms).  It also has a Military Pro shop (cool gear), Class 6 (liquor store), Starbucks and Taco John is coming soon.

Shoppette – Convenience Store. The one we stopped at had a Blimpie sub sandwich shop too.

Commissary – Grocery store. Don’t forget to tip the baggers.

Jeremiah ran in the Smokey Hill River Festival Fitness Five two mile race this morning.  At eight years old, he was the youngest and definitely the smallest in this adult race.  There were about 18 runners in the eleven and under category.

Joel ran with Jer while Sarah and I waited at the finish line.  The race volunteers were the first to notice Jeremiah turning the corner towards the finish line.  They yelled, “Look at that little guy!”  Most runners got a few polite claps. But everyone really cheered for Jer.  I was so proud of him!  His goal was to finish in under 27 minutes, he finished in 24 minutes 15 seconds! He’s going to do a 5k next.

I opened the shades and morning light shone across the kitchen.  Soon my children admired the lint dancing in the sunlight.  “Fuzzies,”  they call them.  They  tried to catch the fuzzies in a crystal jar, hoping to watch them float around inside.  I told them it wouldn’t work… that they wouldn’t float with the lid closed, the air wouldn’t move them.  They tried to catch them anyway, planning to watch them fall to the bottom. I told them that the fuzzies are everywhere, that we breathe them in all the time but we can only see them when the light is just right.  Jeremiah asked, “What if the light was always right?”  He answered himself, “Then it wouldn’t be special.”