Politics in School

I'm proud to say that my daughter's elementary school (the whole school district in fact) will be showing President Obama's speech this week.

I'm dismayed by what a controversy this speech has become in general.

It amazes me that anyone would even consider pulling their kids out of school to avoid exposing them to a speech that the President is directly specifically to them. I think I would pull my kids out of school to ensure that they had a chance to hear the speech! Rather than leaving it to individual teachers to review and use later, I think that schools should be holding all-school assemblies and broadcasting the speech live.

It isn't often that a President takes the time to speak directly to our children. They should have the opportunity to hear from the leader of their country just how important they are.

Running Log 2009-09-31

Still going pretty strong with the running.

Tonight's route had some tough hills on the first 1/2, but that really does make the second half go so much more easily!

Logged 4.2 miles tonight.

Still going....

Today's total:
6.2 mile bike ride around Forest Park (with 80 lbs of girls in tow).
4.2 mile run up and down some good hills.

Phew.

First Day of Kindergarten

Ack!

Ellie's off for her first day of Kindergarten. Mom and Dad are awfully nervous, but Mom is going to school to have lunch with Ellie.

I think she's going to love it, but I know that she's nervous about it. There was very little sleeping last night.

Running Log 2009-07-19

Today's run: Shooting for my 5-miler this week
Distance - 5.07 miles
Time - 01:12:00

Grant's Trail, from Big Bend to Grant's Farm and back.
I did a brief walk in the middle at Grant's Farm, and walked the last 0.7 miles. So, I'm not really counting this as a 5-miler. Maybe next week.

I didn't blog it, but yesterday, we did about half this distance on Grant's trail with my mother-in-law, with me and the jogging stroller. Not a huge fan of running with the stroller, but it did provide some good tricep work.

Running Log 2009-07-16

Today's run: Trying to go a bit longer
Distance - 4.2 miles
Time - 00:53:00

I walked up a couple of hills... the Adams/Couch corner in Sugar Creek Valley is pretty steep.

Running Log 2009-07-14

Today's run: Running with Grandma tonight! (My mother-in-law.)
Distance - 2.7 miles
Time - 00:37:43

Not much distance tonight, but part of it was running up the hill in Sugar Creek Valley! Not fair!