Because I Had Children

Anny had a great idea to plan our summer around the youth goal setting pattern. You can find more about that HERE . It has been nice knowing that each day there was a plan (or at least we tried.)  We picked a day for each of the areas of improvement; physical, social, spiritual and intellectual. Some of our plans worked out easily and others didn't go so well. Sometimes we combined plans to make them work.  For example, the physical days were hard (you thought that would be easy for us didn't you?) Going to the pool took a quick detour when our grandson broke his leg and was in a cast. It's too hot to do much more than go swimming, but we tried. On our vacations, we did a lot of walking and hiking. As for myself, I spent a lot of time on the river. Would you believe that I could get almost 60 minutes of exercise paddling my arms and walking to and from the car? Ben and I walked almost every day before Derek and Anny would wake up. Intellectual was probably the hardest for D...