Rather than wait for our elderly neighbor to notice and pitch it back over the fence (I'm sure she gets tired of that), my homeschooler and I walked around the block to retrieve it. I had planned a walk, alone. I need to start walking for exercising, and made a point to get in a walk yesterday. I intended to walk a little faster and a little longer, but it worked out. ;)
We saw a bunny rabbit - she pointed it out to me. We saw bird PooP on the sidewalk and looked up at the branch above where the bird must have been sitting. We set off a few dogs barking just by being on the sidewalk.
We took the long way home. At an intersection, my homeschooler read the two street signs: "StreetNameA Doctor. StreetNameB Doctor. " she said. She read the abbreviation, "Dr." for "Drive" as "doctor".
I had her attention, was able to explain that "Dr." before a person's name does mean "doctor" and "Dr." after a street name means something different. It means "Drive".
Little moments are BIG moments, AMAZING moments, are moments I took for granted until I watched a child regress into autism (following a chicken pox vaccine).
So, I didn't get the length of a walk I wanted. I didn't get the speed I wanted (probably couldn't have sustained the speed, anyway). But my girl and I got some good us-time in with our walk last night. ;) Love it!
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