Send ‘em home tired
We spent this past weekend in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, just outside of Beavers Bend state park. We’ve spent a number of weekends in and around this park. It’s a beautiful area . . . tall trees, rolling hills, quick moving streams.
This weekend included the entire family . . . mom and dad, my brother and sister and their families. A total of 13 of us, including 5 young kids.
Our weekend wrapped up with some sandwiches for lunch, then some cleaning up and packing the cars for the trip home. The last order of duty was to zap the last ounce of energy out of these little ones before making the 3 hour trek home.
So . . . the torture of choice? Laps. That’s right Laps.
Borrowing the mentality of a high school football coach, we got these kids running laps around the cabin.
“Knees Up!”
“Just two more!”
“Feel the burn!”
First around one side of the cabin . . .
then looping around the other side . . .
then back again . . .
. . . and again . . (Jacob’s so happy about it, he thinks he’s won something)
. . and the final lap . .
. . . ending in a finish line tackle by Aunt Staci.
Absolute and total success. Five sleeping kids on a quiet ride home.