Walking With a Child

I splurged and bought myself a Women's World magazine at the grocery store the other day. In it was a diet. The diet was mostly just a low calorie balanced diet, with lots of raisins. It also required walking. It said to aim for 12,000 steps a day. Somehow eating the raisins along with the walking burned more calories than without the raisins. Anyway, I followed the diet for a little while, but it is very difficult to follow a diet when I also have to feed my family. I basically had to fix 2 separate meals every meal time! Anyway, I didn't do that very long! I have been trying to downsize my portions (the diet helped me see what was an appropriate portion), and still eat the raisins and do the walking. I bought a pedometer and yesterday I walked over 14,000 steps!

Since the diet I have been trying to take walks after Matt gets home from work. I was taking the dog with me, but I decided that it might help Matt more if I took one of the kids with me. So yesterday after dinner I put Anthony in our umbrella stroller and took off.

As I was briskly walking along I was reminded of Sis. Trina's blog about putting herself out there. I am from a small town where everybody knows everyone else; so if you are walking around you almost always say at least a few words to anyone you meet. Somehow in the big city I don't follow the same pattern. We've lived in this house for a year, and we still don't know our neighbors very well. I've thought about planning a block party for everyone to get to know each other better, but Matt's not sure if he wants to do that. Anyway, I'm rambling a little...

Normally on my walks with the dog I would walk along and just mind my own business and not really talk to anyone; however with Anthony with me it was a different story! Anyone we passed by Anthony would say "Hi, my name is Anthony! What's your name?", then he would go off and ramble about anything that popped into his head! There were a few times I had to stop so that Anthony could carry on his conversations! I do think he was a little excessive with his friendliness, but I saw how I could learn from his childish innocence. I decided to try to be more friendly on my future walks, and at least say Hi to those I meet.

You really can learn a lot from a child if you take the time to watch and learn...

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I have other things I want to blog about, and as soon as I get the pictures ready I will; so hopefully I will be posting more blogs soon.