Day 41 - Cartwheels

At one point during my trip, I was cleaning up in the kitchen a bit and Heathers daughter and son were hanging out keeping me company and we were just chatting away, getting to know one another. We were asking each other random questions and really just feeling each other out in an attempt to learn as much as we could about each other in the few days we had to be face to face. I was telling them some memories I had of them as little kids and some memories about their momma and they were asking me all kinds of questions. It was really something. I even did my best one night to remember and show them the childhood “hand clapping” songs that were so popular back then.

Anyhow, at one point her daughter asked me if I knew how to do a backbend. (She is in gymnastics so she can really good). I told her I used to be able to all the time when I was a kid but haven’t attempted one in many years and don’t see that I ever would. She asked me if I knew how to do a cartwheel and I said yes of course. I told her I hadn’t done one in quite some time but before I left I would try one with her. Well, during one of the following days the kids had learned all about my blog and I told them we would do cartwheels and take pics and one day after I got home I would do a cartwheel and think of them and put it in my blog. So, while we were all upstairs one night I asked my sister, Heathers son and daughter if they wanted to go ahead and take pics doing cartwheels and they all said yes. It was such an unexpected, random thing to do on my trip but a lasting awesome memory.

So, today as I was hanging around the house having a little bit of a lazy Saturday (for me anyways lol) I began to ponder what I would do for my blog today. I thought of the cartwheel memory and knew that would be perfect. I stood up right then and there and in between my living room and dining room I did a cartwheel. Seems silly but I swear the second I did it I was smiling ear to ear. No one was there to see me. But the second I did it- the whole memory of all of us in the game room doing cartwheels was vividly clear. The fact that even the son was so willing to get in on that and just have fun with us being kinda silly was so awesome. His character is so easy-breezy and “go with the flow” and I found an absolutely endearing quality for a teenage boy. Even now while I’m writing this I am literally smiling. I had so much fun with those precious kids and am feeling blessed in every way a person can.  #HGAL #shewouldbesoproud



Heathers Son

Heathers daughter

Me

My sister (her cartwheel was so fast it was blurry lol)