Trekkin' and Thinkin'

Walked a bit further today - it was not as warm as yesterday, though. Clouds were hiding the sun for most of the walk, but it was a bit dryer than yesterday. Wasn't splashed hardly at all. Walked 1.8 miles round trip today - down an extra block.

I'm trying to encourage some of my coworkers to join me. A couple are thinking about it - so we'll see.

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Got to see Timothy's soccer game tonight. Precious kids at this age. The game for them is all about running up and down the gym floor - kicking the ball hard (no matter which way their own goal might lie) and falling onto the floor. Getting face kissed by the ball is not pleasant, nor is getting hit in the back by one. Having to tape up her earrings caused many tears by one little girl. Snacks being forgotten by the designated snack mom caused frustrated tears on our team. It's all a learning process.

After the game Timothy and his family got to visit his next year's school - an Open House was held for new kindergarten families. I haven't heard yet, but I'm sure that he had a great time. JessiAnna and her mama and siblings were also supposed to go. That school has NO clue what is coming through their doors next year with these little cousins. Would that I were a spider on a wall to see and hear those first few days. ;-))

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I have mentioned that here before. Today it sort of hit home.

I was checking some links at work and went to the State of Alaska page and then to the Sexual Offenders Registry page - checked my zip code and found that someone on my street is a registered sex offender. He has lived there for a little over a year now - we've never seen him around kids, but will be watching even more closely now - especially over our own littles.

The daughters now know, as does the next door neighbor, a mother of two teen and one pre-teen girls.

Just makes you sit back a bit. There are 61 registered sex offenders in my zip code alone. I even know some of them - or know their families. It is that small of a town.

Sobering.

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Posted by Purplemoose at April 13, 2004 10:07 PM