School time!

Luna is finally signed up for VPK, it starts Aug 31st. It's near Freedom Park, but on the boulevard. Mapquest says it's 1.4 miles from the house.

After realizing that asking the kid to walk 5+miles a day would not be a nice thing to do, I started plans to build a rickshaw. Mike's pop was gonna help on Sunday, but he found a jogging stroller on Craigslist - Orlando, but located in Deland for like $45. The rickshaw was gonna cost 30, so why not avoid the work and just buy it? We did. She let us have it for $40 and it's a $200 unit.

I've found the rain shield on Ebay, it's gonna cost us another $30 to get it.

This week we are starting the school wake/sleep schedule. It's really really really hard for me. She's got mommy's natural aversion to getting up early. This morning after grabbing my principals and not begging for more time, I started trying to wake her. It took two dogs, two parents and actual lifting of the child to accomplish. We walked about a mile and a half to Wadean's and back this morning. I want to do stuff like that two or three times a week to get my legs ready for the real deal.

To keep her happy, I'm getting her a new set of headphones just for her MP3 player. She can rock out on the way to school. It's gonna be neat. I hope she sings as I walk.

Hopefully, walking a few miles each day will help me lose my giant rear end. I'm trying to keep the idea of a gift of weight loss & earth friendly behavior rather than a whine-fest of not having a car. Wonder which idea will happen in the rain....