What is making us happy? Our future athlete...Davis

This is a combination of the last two weeks. Both accomplishments for Davis. Proud dad saw him run his first race. It was a 1 mile run around Nike. He started a little too hot, but came around and made a solid finish. It was to promote Marathon Kids to get kids to start running. He wants to run with daddy. I told him it's a start. The distances that I run sometimes are 13 times to the frozen yogurt shop and back. He said he will work on it.

Secondly, he achieved a level of Junior warrior black belt. Truthfully, I think the qualifications are a little loose for this black belt, but he's been doing it and we are proud. He's taking a break from TKD for the summer and taking swimming for two months. Definitely doing more in his 7 years than we did as kids. Wong 2.0 is going strong!

Finally, a bonus. The cousins came up to visit so we took the opportunity to take a group picture. As they don't see each other much, we are doing our best to keep them connected for when they are older. :) Here's the picture. Hope you are enjoying the heat.

What's making us happy? Young Capitalists

Two weekends ago, it was our neighborhood Garage Sale. We didn't sell any of our worldly possessions, but what we did was teach the kids about making a product, selling a product, and reaping the rewards of the sale.

Davis helped mom make the cookies and rice crispy treats. They helped color the signs. We encouraged them to say hello to everyone who came by and wave at all the cars that drove by. The friendlier that we were and made a connection, more cookies and treats were sold. Cause and Effect, in full effect. It does remind me of a story from H White about what his mother told him... "You let that be the last time you ever walk by somebody and not open up your mouth to speak, because even a dog can wag its tail when it passes you on the street." This was a totally different  and positive situation. After that, they waved and said hello more.

They made $21. More than enough for yogurt with all the fixings! They did good!

What makes you happy... "Ready player One..." and the joys of summer

Week 3.

I wasn't sure if I was going to have something happy to think about, but working out today, I heard Matt Damon's MIT commencement speech. It was funny and inspiring to them and me. He was describing that we may be a be a cosmic simulation and his response is "you need to do really interesting things, important things, inventive things, because this world has some real problems that this world needs you to solve." and "turn towards the problem and face it head on...". Inspiring.. If you needed a pep talk, like I did, take a look. "Ready Player One, Your game begins now". I am going to search for other commencement speeches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9nU5oKtFyo

The weekend was hot. Very hot. And what did Davis do? He spent 3 hours in the pool at a birthday party. He had a great time while I met his classmate's parents. Isn't that what life is about? Enjoying the simple things and making connections? If that's what this summer is like? I'm all in.

Hope you all are finding your things that are making you happy.