Pink Sunset

 

Here's the pink sunset from tonight in our neighborhood.  Madison saw the coloring through the window and had to run out to take this picture.  She had her first Milestones test today, and it went well.  She felt pretty good about it, as it was for Social Studies.  The rest of the day wasn't much in regards to classwork, except for math, which has been fairly relentless.

We had taekwondo tonight, and Madison was sparring with some of her fellow black belts.  Many of them have testing coming up, but Madison actually doesn't, and isn't as concerned about impressing anyone.  She's just wanting to learn more and more, and as far as her form goes, she's getting more and more advanced with that.  It's amazing how deep that goes.  She's come quite a long distance.

Tonight's episode of "The Mighty Ducks" had all the feels, as six of the original Ducks returned for such a nostalgic episode.  Madison loves the movies - as do we - so it was neat seeing some of them come back for the show.  Afterwards, it was more "Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.," as we're heading towards that crazy stunning episode, and seeing all the clues that lead up to it.  Really great writing in retrospect.  Nobody saw it coming, and yet there were a few hints here and there that were so subtle.

I've been back on the treadmill now, back doing a half-hour a day on different tours of different places.  Today I walked from Disney's Hilton Head Resort to the beach house.  We've stayed there in the past, but just rode the shuttle bus the last time.  Tomorrow I'll walk the grounds again.  We'd love to stay there again some time, as it was just a nice, quiet place with lots of nice atmosphere.  The beach was nice too, of course.  

I checked my blood pressure afterwards, and it was wonderfully low.  I'm on all kinds of blood thinner and pills, of course.  But the exercise and moving around I think is helping me.  The goal is about 45 minutes of straight walking each day, and hopefully getting up to a much higher pace of walking too.

It was a good day today, one we closed out with prayer.  We read from Exodus, describing the Ark of the Covenant.  Madison recognized that right away.  There are a lot of instructions in this part of the Bible, but we're dutifully going through each verse.  We read from "Kingdom Keepers II" as well, and of course that story is moving along towards its conclusion.  It won't be long before we hit "Kingdom Keepers III," I guess!