Fun Friday!

Should be grading today (and will be in a minute) but spent the morning biking with my 9 year old. One of the best things I’ve done recently is to buy a bike–actually 2 for the price of one on craigslist. Sam and I have been biking most mornings before I go to work. Today, we explored some woods trails, complete with logs to jump, burms to bump, streams to cross, and branches to duck. There are two adjoining cemetaries near our house and the space between them is where we found the woods. We found some woods trails and explored several today. Saw about a dozen deer this morning. Other mornings we have seen raccoon and fox pups. I didn’t know we had that much wildlife so near our suburban home. Best of all, I’ve spied some loaded raspberry and blackberry bushes. In just a few weeks, we’ll be eating some berries if I can get there first!

Actually, best of all, I’ve had great times with my son. He’s just as interested in riding as I am. Last Saturday as we were pulling out of the driveway we had this conversation:

Sam: Oh dad, last night I prayed the prayer last night.
Dad: What prayer?
Sam: You know, the prayer where I ask Jesus to come in my heart.
Dad: (nearly falls off bike). You did? That’s great. Why did you decide to do that?
Sam: [duh] Because I want Jesus to come into my heart. I prayed the prayer we learned at VBS this week [recites prayer].
Dad: When did you pray it?
Sam: When I was reading in bed…

Well you can imagine that this rather matter of fact conversation didn’t express my joy and excitement for him. So, we did our ride and at lunch time I remembered to tell my wife, who of course had the right response–tears of joy.