The truth as I know it:

We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life. But those who make their journey home across time & miles, growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them, are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us by God's very own hands. ~~~ Kristi Larson

Friday, May 07, 2010

I survived!

My feet are begging me to lay down.  I've taken more Ibuprofen in the last 24 hours than my kidneys can process, but I'm alive and I actually walked 19 miles yesterday with 78 4th grade students and several parents.  I loved it.  It was worth every agonizing second to have my son wanting to walk right next to me the entire time.  I'm SO glad I went.  I'm so glad I did it.  I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.  And honestly, it was fun.  I would do it again (good thing because we will get three more chances to do this before our elementary days are done.)

We left the school at 9:30 yesterday morning and we were at the pick-up point at 5:20 yesterday afternoon. We broke for one hour for lunch and a few other shorter breaks along the way for water, etc. It was 86 degrees here yesterday, but we were in the woods a great deal of the time.  I honestly did not know a woman could smell as bad as I smelled by lunchtime.  And by the time we got back to school, I couldn't even stand the smell of myself.  Let me just tell you now that Secret Pl@tinum is not designed for intense activity! :)

I hope you all have a great weekend.  I will be sitting here with my feet up eating bon-bons if anyone wants to stop by! :)

5 comments:

Kim said...

Good for you!

Tiger & Kar said...

"I honestly did not know a woman could smell as bad as I smelled by lunchtime."

SNORT!!! Oh my goodness I laughed so hard when I read that! Good for you for completing this challenge, and doing so with your son. That is awesome O!

I'm so happy you're non-committal. It's great to have you back in blogland!

See you in June!
Karyn

Lakeshore Cottage Living said...

GREAT job Ondrea!!! YOU ARE SUPERMOMMY!!!! Proud of you.

Lindsay said...

Rather you than me :) Well done to both of you. I doubt I could currently walk for 19 minutes, never mind 19 miles!

unicyclerose said...

I love fourth graders and the mom's that will follow them that far on any given day, plus stink as a result. You go girl!