As a family we are taking part as the Premiers Active family challenge. It has been good so far, we have gone on a few walks after dinner which has been relaxing and connecting. Tommorrow is meant to be a ride to school day, but I thought we would try out walking to school. As it is a bit of a challenge, I left it to the pick up, rather than risk arriving to school late and exhausted.So, once the twins woke up we set out on our walk. We left at 2 giving us an hour and a half to get there. There is a park on the way where we could kill some time - all going well. We live on main road, on quite a hill so the whole pram and bike thing is a major issue. Alexander can't ride his bike up the hill, and even coming down the hill is just too fast to manage. So the twins and I walked - no pram.
We managed to get there pretty quickly, and it was actually enjoyable. Benji and Spencer were well behaved and so they got to have a good play at the park. This is the point I think it all began to unravel......
We got to Xandy's classroom, and he needed to go to the toilet before walking home. This is where we lost him, called him over the loud speaker, him get brought to me-crying- by another teacher. He moped and grizzled all the way home, and the twins weren't much better. We managed to walk back to the park (probably 100 meters from school) where Benji refused to move, at all. So I had to carry him, all 16 kilos of him as a dead floppy weight, home. We arrived home just before 5 - three hours after we had left, very tired and bedraggled and not very keen to go for a walk again. Ride your bike day tomorrow is so out of the question!!!!!
