Channel That Energy!

Took my energy and headed to the gym. The kids did their thing in the great on-site daycare. Mom played some great ball and hit the stair master... so nice!

After the gym, we got some gas and stopped by the market. We picked up dinner to go (salads, sandwiches and a tasty beverage) and headed for the book store!

The book store is one of our favorite places to go. I take the kids and we grab different books to explore and end up "camping" out in the kid's section. It's great because the boys all find interesting books to read/look through, there's a great train set for them to play with, I read to the kids and also read a little something for me, the girl's are in heaven with their books.... just a great family outing. Everyone is engaged and loving it. It's great on a cold or snowy day.... and it's free! We don't buy anything, just browse and enjoy. Although we always find something we'd love to have. Tonight I found a kid's book by Obama. It was just lovely.... Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.

Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?

How the sound of your feet
running from afar
brings dancing rhythms to my day?
How you laugh and
sunshine spills into the room?

Have I told you that you are creative?

A woman named Georgia O'Keeffe
moved to the desert and painted petals, bone, bark.
She helped us see big beauty in what is small:
The hardness of stone and the softness of feather.

Have I told you that you are smart?

That you braid great ideas with imagination?
A man named Albert Einstein
turned pictures in his mind into giant advances in science,
changing the world
with energy and light.

Have I told you that you are brave?

All of this with relationship to outstanding, extraordinary beings that have made a difference... that truly lived.....

Jackie Robinson
Sitting Bull
Billie Holiday
Abraham Lincoln
Cesar Chavez
Neil Armstrong
Dr. Martin Luther King JR.
Jane Addams
Helen Keller
George Washington
Maya Lin

Just perfect and beautiful illustrations as well! Of course... who would expect anything less?

You the man, Obama. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

If they allowed food at the book store, we'd be there all day... ;)