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\"\"<\/a>Happy Friday! This has been a landmark week, friends. What you see above was, until Tuesday, K’s nemesis.<\/span><\/p>\n

M bought this vintage beauty of a bike from the 1960s off of Craigslist last year in the hopes of teaching his rather…athletically-resistant (except when it comes to swimming) daughter how to finally cycle without training wheels. It never happened. It probably doesn’t help that it weighs about two tons. Love that sparkly banana seat though…<\/p>\n

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At K’s school, bike-riding is included as mandatory gym curriculum in the second grade, and this has been the stuff of nightmares for the whole summer. With two weeks of vacation left, we had to take action. So on Tuesday, K and I hauled out the dusty bike from the basement, got it adjusted at the local bike repair shop, and found an empty basketball court. It took two hours before she could balance. By the fourth hour, she could coast along with only a few wobbles, and by the fifth hour, we high-fived and called it a day.<\/p>\n

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She’s been riding her bike every day since and loves it. Embarrassed by her Barbie helmet that M got her last year, but intrepid nonetheless. More than anything, I am so proud of her tenacity. She wouldn’t give up until she got the basics down. She fell over and over, and cried copiously, but she had that “look” in her eye that meant business. It reminded me of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, with one week to spare, we’ve accomplished a big, big goal. It feels awesome.<\/p>\n

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K: Mama, do you ever think about the number of stars in the sky?<\/p>\n

Me: Hmmm, yes. Sometimes. There are gazillions.<\/p>\n

K: Sheesh, Mommy, there aren’t gazillions of stars. The number is slightly less than that.<\/p>\n

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Have a wonderful weekend, all! I have some fun sewing to share with you next week, and we will be practicing bike-riding all weekend long…<\/p>\n

It takes great effort<\/em>
\nTo conquer those long-held fears<\/em>
\nWhen you do: cloud nine\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, my persistent, determined little girl!<\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! This has been a landmark week, friends. What you see above was, until Tuesday, K’s nemesis. M bought this vintage beauty of a bike from the 1960s off of Craigslist last year in the hopes of teaching his rather…athletically-resistant (except when it comes to swimming) daughter how to finally cycle without training wheels. It never happened. It probably doesn’t help that it weighs about two tons. Love that sparkly banana seat though… At K’s school, bike-riding is included as mandatory gym curriculum in the second grade, and this has been the stuff of nightmares for the whole summer. With two weeks of vacation left, we had to take action. So on Tuesday, K and I hauled out the dusty bike from the basement, got it adjusted at the local bike repair shop, and found an empty basketball court. It took two hours before she could balance. By the fourth hour, she could coast along with only a few wobbles, and by the fifth hour, we high-fived and called it a day. She’s been riding her bike every day since and loves it. Embarrassed by her Barbie helmet that M got her last year, but intrepid nonetheless. More than anything, I am so proud of her tenacity. She wouldn’t give up until she got the basics down. She fell over and over, and cried copiously, but she had that “look” in her eye that meant business. It reminded me of this post. Anyway, with one week to spare, we’ve accomplished a big, big goal. It feels awesome. ****************************************************************************** K: Mama, do you ever think about the number of stars in the sky? Me: Hmmm, yes. Sometimes. There are gazillions. K: Sheesh, Mommy, there aren’t gazillions of stars. The number is slightly less than that. ****************************************************************************** Have a wonderful weekend, all! I have some fun sewing to share with you next week, and we will be practicing bike-riding all weekend long… It takes great effort To conquer those long-held fears When you do: cloud nine\u00a0 Oh, my persistent, determined little girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}