Almost every weekend since school
started back my daughter's friend Racheal has spend the night with
us. Last night we had Rayanna call her and tell her to make sure she
brings good tennis shoes because we were thinking about going hiking
on Saturday, if the weather is ok for it. She had on these very small
slip on sandle flats and she thought that should be enough, she had
no idea what hiking was. So after my daughter explained it to her,
and my husband forced her to go back into her house and getting a
good pair of shoes to hike in (he did this by refusing to pull out of
her driveway until she did so), they explained what it was to her on
the way back to our house.
This seemingly small thing made me
realize how little parents get out and do things like this with their
children. We tend to take it for granted in our house because we try
to be active as often as we can.
I am going to be cooking vegetarian
chicken sandwiches for dinner on Sunday, with a side choice of french
fries or asparagus, and she did not know what the later was either.
The more she comes over the more I realize her family eats out a lot
and when they do have stuff at home its store packaged heat in the
microwave chicken nuggets. I cook or prepare all three of our meals
at home from scratch most of the time. I do have a few fillers, like
instant oatmeal and grits, and stuff for sandwiches sometimes, but I
try to always provide healthy things in their lunches as well, such
as fruit. I don't think she had been prepared breakfast, especially
on a school morning, like I do before coming here.
My daughter loves that I do these
things for her, and so does most of her friends. I am so happy to be
able to give her this, and I think anyone out there should do the
same at least sometimes, I know some can't do it everyday. It's also
a great way to save money and spend time with your family.
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