I love walking/running with my mom and Claire at the lake. We usually go 3-4 days a week. I run a few miles and mom walks and pushes Claire in the stroller. That is no easy task... pushing 50 pds. up those steep hills. We have nicknames- I am "Little Bull" and Lib is "Big Bull" and I do believe Claire is "Tiny Bull". She is proving that she can live up to the long line of hard-working women. We all prefer hard, manual labor and a challenge. We like to sweat it out.
I usually get to walk the last lap with them and that's when mom and I catch up on all the daily non-sense of our lives. "What color are you painting the door?", "What are you cooking for dinner?", "Did you hear about...?" or "I'm thinking about rearranging..." That's my favorite part-the last lap. I pray everyday that Claire and I will have the kind of relationship that I have with mom. We laugh, we love, we help and we're brutally honest. Simple, but it works.
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