Abi has been taking the van to school a lot. Tuesdays she needs is for her flute lesson, Wednesday for Lyceum, and Friday for carpool. She's not taking carpool tomorrow cause she has to be there early for "senior sunrise" so she'll have the car anyway and I'll be taking carpool probably. But I did have it today, and since I did, I went and bought a bike trailer for myself so that Katharine and I will have some freedom when I don't have a car. I got it from the KSL classified from someone in Eagle Mountain for $80 bucks. Driving out there felt like entering a very different city and place with it's very desert landscape. Kinda fun to go out there and see it. The trailer we got is a yellow "Kidarooz" trailer, and seems pretty good. The trailer we used to have was all ripped on the seat and on the straps holding the seat to the trailer frame. I probably could have tried to fix it, but in an impulsive moment I got rid of it with the bulk clean up I think in 2023. We still have the shotgun seat (pic 2), but I'm too short for that, or Katharine is too big... I can hardly see over her, and if I move up my seat to see over, I'm so high that I can't touch the ground and then I'm worried about tipping over and making her fall and get hurt. Plus on the shotgun seat she gets tired and fall asleep, and I'm not as talented as Corey at holding her while I ride so a trailer would be better for her when she's sleepy (pic 12). K and I tested it out the new one by biking to the bus stop after school. It was hard to get up the street, harder than I thought. So now I'm not sure about biking to my mom's house, cause the hills going there are legit hills, not the slightly sloped street we live on. But I'll try that ride sometime before winter I'm sure.
There are still legos all over the floor. Katharine has been keeping herself entertained in there, and Peter joins her in play after he gets home from school.
And since she's entertained and the kids are home, I used that as my longer exercise time. I can do something in the morning if it's around an hour. Since we renewed our Momentum membership on Monday, I went bouldering yesterday morning for 45 minutes. (The moon and Jupiter and Venus looked AMAZING!) Got to Momentum and did 11 boulders while I was there, but wasn't quite feeling it, so did my copout for something challenging but not stressful and did a kid area race, and I got R>L on the first try! Then did it two more times and didn't get those either. This morning there was no carpool for us, so while Corey was still home, I left for a hike from the 1st bridge to the end of techy. About 80 minutes. Corey was on his way up the canyon when I got back home. I decided to do a ride this evening, at the end of a 24 hour fast, and I did and wasn't too slow considering the fasting. The Alta biking team was up there (lots of shirts said Alta), lots of people, so had to pause a few times for them to pass or waiting for them, still good ride. Pleased to say that I got the 2nd bridge rocks again, that's my 3rd time in a row! Weigh 139.8 after the ride, yay. I've been in the 140s like this whole year so glad to get it under for a moment, even if just barely.
Oh, and guess what I learned last night while reading Saints to Owen~ Joseph Smith had a younger sister named Katharine - with the same spelling as our little Katharine!! I felt justified before Ethan, who every now and then still expresses disappointment in her name.
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