Get Moving!!!!

We are experiencing a real  "gully-washer" as my Grandmother would say.  It has rained and lighting-ed and thunder-ed for 2 days.  Thankfully it stopped on Sunday before worship and after so our King's Kids program could meet.  We have been going to a park and letting the children play and have fun.  It's like public school going on field trips all at the end of the year (no offense meant here, teachers, I totally understand!!!).  By the end of the school year (or King's Kids program) you are tired and the ole brain is beginning to go into vacation mode.  Last night was our last KK night and we leaders were just too tired to think up something.  I know....shocking!  The week before we went to the park and the kids played and had fun.  No crying....no fighting...just good old-fashioned recreational time.  No one said "you will play this game and here's how you do it;"  no one organized the time together.  We just provided balls if they wanted to use them and an open space to run and play.  It is so much different than when we have them cooped up in the church fellowship hall and have to organize activities so they aren't running all over the building (and eventually into the sanctuary).  We aren't trying to proselytize either.  We are just adults who love these kids and provide a safe haven for them to come and play.  We also feed them.  A lot is being written these days about kids and obesity and kids and diabetes.  It is shocking and scary.  I'm not saying we feed them broccoli and carrots, but they do receive a hot meal.

Vacation is upon us and I don't have any dreams of fitting into a bikini this season (or ever!) but I do want to be in some sort of shape.  Yesterday I walked to the park and back. Unfortunately I sat and talked to people versus getting out there and playing with the kids.  "It's muddy!"  "I don't want to get my shoes muddy!"  Those were my complaints, not the kids.  They were walking around the mud puddles unless they were 1 year old or 3 (they were the leaders' kids) and they did get muddy!  LOL  I know I sound like a broken record with the exercising talk, but I really want to move....now I just have to do it!