Today after the usual hustle to get to school and the hustle at school/work itself, we had to go take Daniel to his Karate Play class. It is a great class that teaches him very basic karate stuff, but gives him somewhere to get out some energy and learn a thing or two about responsibility and respect. Today, I sent him into class and sat out in the car outside the big window and watched him work with the teacher. He did really well today. He listened and did everything he was asked. I loved watching him do the moves and he had a blast kicking and hitting the pads.
After karate, I decided that I would take the kids on a little excursion to the lake nearby that does a "Nature in Lights" exhibit. Basically, they set up these awesome lights all around the lake, you pay a fee for the car, and drive around and look at the lights. It was 5.5 miles of lights! When I told the kids what we were going to do, they were super excited. When we actually pulled up to it and saw some of the lights, they were so captivated by the lights and it made me think of when I was a kid and we would drive through some of the more well-off neighborhoods and look at their lights. We drove around talking about all the lights we saw and laughing at some of the funnier displays. We went through the 12 days of Christmas and tried to sing it, but lost it by the time we hit the 10th day of Christmas.
Once we drove through it all, we came back home to get ready for bed. Daniel, being the great little boy he is, looked at me and said, "That was an amazing journey! I love those kind of journeys!" It made me smile just because of the words he had chosen to use. Then, I looked at him and agreed and told him that I thought it was quite an amazing journey myself. He smiled at me and then headed to get ready for bed.
Of course, I can't stop there because his talk of our journey made me think about the journey we are all on as a family, and especially as a military family. We have ups and downs. We have hard times, bad times, good times, and times where we just survive. Right now our journey is spread out because our family is spread out on two different continents. That isn't going to stop it from being a journey our family makes. It isn't going to stop it from being an amazing journey, one way or another, it will be amazing just because it will be our family going through it together. One day at a time.
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