Tidbits

We spent most of the day today around the campground. We slept in a little bit and had pancakes and bacon and eggs for breakfast. The girls watched a few cartoons that mommy burned to disc for them long ago. I don't think they know mommy did those cartoons for them, but I do.

I spent a few hours this morning working.

We walked around the campground and walked out along the beach. The tide was low and we could walk out to some "islands" that we could see from our campsite. Sarah was afraid of walking on seaweed that had washed up on the shore. Rebekah had a hard time walking on the gravel. We spent most of the time today outside the club house. We never went in, but we played some shuffle board this morning and there was a great big grass hill out in front of it. Rebekah rode all around on her quad:


And Sarah spent the morning going up and down and up and down learning to balance her bike:
Youtube Link To Sarah Balancing

She had gotten so good at balancing that she didn't want to get off her bike at all. I had to force her back to the trailer to make some lunch. After lunch we put her pedals back on the bike and headed back to the hill. Things went down hill (pun intended) a bit and pedaling was a bit more difficult for her to master. There were a few crashes and A LOT of tears but we made it through. This evening we went for a walk after dinner and after some coaxing she brought her bike. She can ride if she wants to. Sometimes 10 feet. Sometimes 50-100 feet. Then she looses her confidence and stops. She may not be totally fluent at it but she is riding on two wheels!!!!

The girls both have the coarse cough that we have been passing around the house for a few months. "Day Time" cough medicine didn't do it last night so we made a quick trip to the closest grocery store and picked up at small $7.00 bottle of kiddo night time cough medicine. Compared to fighting with them to go to sleep last night, that $7.00 was money WELL spent. They both went out like lights tonight.

Yesterday we went down to Coupeville to see some family as well as some friends. When departing on this trip I wasn't sure we would want to spend too much time with others but we really wanted to see these folks. The girls found it to be a good divergence from just being with daddy.

God has a way of using others. I haven't been feeling very good about my abilities as a sole father. It was easy to be an okay daddy when mommy was there to pick up the slack and protect the kids from my failures. Now I'm scared. I told you the other day about the lady at the Teddy Bear Store saying something to me. Today I had a retired school teacher who we kept seeing around camp out of the blue say what a wonderful daddy I was - and thank me for it. And another lady we bumped into on the beach made a similar comment. All of these out of the blue with no reason to them at all. I mean who goes around telling a complete stranger that? But I guess God knew I needed to hear it.