Garage Sales

“Do everything without complaining or arguing.”  Philippians2:14

With Spring comes garage sales…definitely one of our favorite things about spring!  The kids save up their money throughout the year and when garage sales start popping up in the paper we make a plan, leave the house early, and spend the day shopping!  On Friday we spent the day hunting down good deals and just having a great time together.  Amongst the usual games, cookware, and clothing items that we picked up along the way our best find was a new bike for Jackson.  Now, there is a reason why this bike is so important.  For the past couple of months Jackson has been riding a purple princess bike.  For any of you with boys you know that this was a very humbling act for him. 

One day the girls took it upon themselves to teach Jackson how to ride his bike without training wheels.  He picked it up very quickly (I think it took a max of 30 minutes) and was soon speeding up and down the driveway.  It wasn’t long before his tire was flat and quite frankly needing to be replaced.  The only way that he could continue riding a bike was to ride his sisters purple princess bike.  He was definitely hesitant at first.  Especially knowing that he’d be riding it out on the road (in his mind every passing car would notice) with his cousins (all of whom are boys).  Needless to say he really didn’t complain about this, but rather did what he had to do.  Joe and I were very proud of him for this.

It’s the combination of times like these that develop who we are and who we are to become.