Just wanted a walk-Gosh!

Gosh! Just trying to take the kids on a little bike ride to wear them out and of course get a power walk in with jane mary m and do some catch-up chattin'. If my kid didn't wipe out 14 times it could've been accomplished! See, my husband-bless him-decided to take home Jace's old bike from the cabin (for Levi) and go off to work today without putting his training wheels on. You see I got a free bike (Carla can appreciate this) from a friend that was hot pink( second child-color doesn't matter) and he loved it but Pete thought this would be a good change for him physically and mentally. This bike was also a bit bigger than the hot pink one. Well, that left me to do the job. Easy enough? Wrong! I am absolutely no good with a wrench or any kind of tools for that matter. I did put them on but incorrectly and definitely not tight enough. It didn't matter though because I would tighten them until my hands were bloody if I could just get a walk in! After they fell off the first 5 times we stopped back home to retighten them and tell Levi again, "this time they will really work." Just down around the bend from that moment his wheel went flying off and thankfully a good samaritan seen the whole thing and asked if we needed help. Well, of course we did and we got a tune-up on both bikes right then and there. We made it about another mile when Levi's "un-tuned" up side of his training wheels fell apart. That was it for him. He wasn't believing it any more-his bike was junk. He hated it and he said so. Jane then offered to push Levi's bike and Liberty sat on his lap in a small umbrella stroller we were hoping survived the big load. Then, as Jane was boasting (ha ha) about how Isaac's dad had tightened all his bike parts up his pedal went flying off and now he was without transportation also. Now Isaac hated his bike too. Jane then tried to push both of these goofy looking bikes down the road until she couldn't steer them anymore and we dumped them in a ditch temporarily until we could make it home to get her van to pick them up. As we were walking away from them Isaac got worried about somebody taking these prize bikes so we had to say a prayer that the Lord would protect them from being stolen. As we walked home, Levi in the stroller, Jane carrying Isaac on her back, and Liberty running down the middle of the road we laughed at all that had happened to us and what a sight we must have been. Next time we go out on our bike/walk/stroll/carry we will be more prepared. We will go thru a checklist and carry a cellphone. We will have extra tools and better skills. Yeah, I'm sure that we will.