My middle daughter turned eight today. She planned her own celebration, including the transportation. This is what she chose to do. First, we biked down and picked up her friend. Then the three of us biked to the local Izzy’s restaurant (for which we had a coupon) for lunch. Then we biked home for presents, [...]
Posted on July 27th, 2010 in Cycling, Sustainability
We finally have all three kids biking on their own! Oldest daughter has moved up to an adult bike. Middle daughter just tonight moved up to the middle bike and started riding without training wheels. Youngest daughter is now on the smallest bike, with the training wheels on. Yay! But I forgot to take any [...]
I was immediately drawn in by the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and have been equally captivated by each episode. Of course, I’m totally on board with his mission to bring real, wholesome food to the people of Huntington, West Virginia and elsewhere, but the series also features good storytelling! I encourage everyone [...]
Posted on April 02nd, 2010 in Cycling
I rode my bike two days in row. Shocking, I know! Today was the second day of 30 Days of Biking. I rode my bike to work as usual yesterday, but not today. Today’s weather included wind (with high wind warnings), rain, hail, sunshine, and temperatures in the low 40s. This morning was awful, and [...]
I looked out the window after school today, and saw rain pouring down on students and teachers as they loaded the buses. It didn’t look good for me, and I’d parked my bike outside and left all of my rain gear (cheap poncho and plastic bags) in the Freeloader bags, where it was already getting [...]
At 5:00 this morning, the alarm clock came to life and blared out that there’d been another earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 6.1. “Oh, no” “What?!” My husband and I responded simultaneously. He turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, since he was going to work two hours late today. I rolled over and [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2010 in Parenting
The girls went upstairs to bed, and within a few minutes I could hear shrieks of dismay. “Give me my book!” “I don’t want to listen to the Wiggles!” “I can’t find any pajamas!” I think we need to do something about bedtime again. I know that having a routine is key, especially for young [...]
Posted on September 08th, 2009 in Cycling
Last year around this time, I was struggling to get the kids to daycare and school and myself to work by bike. All I had was my old yellow bike. I didn’t have a child seat or trailer on it. We got everyone into jackets and backpacks. The big girls put on helmets and were [...]
