Quote Originally Posted by hipmama View Post
I put in place a rule about no serious questions while going up hill last year when she started asking me about planetary alignment and gravitational pull while climbing a steep hill heading into a major intersection- she was most definitely not working hard enough!
And yes, it is the best investment ever for us as a mother daughter team. When she was younger we always did adventure weekends, a weekend in NYC, a weekend camping alone, etc. Last year I told her we were going to bike in tandem across NYS and we did and she now wants do to it every year. She has been studying field guides all year to make sure she can identify every bird, wild flower, and tree. So much better than spongebob!
Oh - that is wonderful! We have a bike tour each year run by our state cycling association (Cycle Queensland) which runs for 9days and travels from one obscure place to another! It is catered and they carry your bags and tents for you. We did it last year with DH (but he rode a lot faster and so we spent a lot of quality time with just the two of us).

It was such fun but the questions while climbing a particular mountain range were amusing (if she wasn't asking you of course). I think I got "So Mum... what's cerebral palsy and how does it happen and what does it do?" and "So Mum...why were those people petitioning for that dam not to get built and why does the dam have to be there and what will the petition do?"

I'm learning to shy away from anything that starts with "So Mum..."

And always when I'm just about scraping my lungs up off the ground straining up some monster hill!