I am a mother
I am a yard duty
I am a Primary Teacher (Sunday School)
I am an Elementary School Aide
I am an oldest sister AND I am one of the oldest cousins on both my dad's side and my mom's side of the family
I could probably catch kids attempting dangerous stunts in my sleep and holler for them to STOP! (in fact I kind of do - see below*)
so why do I think this is SO COOL!
Parkour and Free Running
(might want to mute the sound on this one)
and do NOT try this at home,
unless you've had lots of supervised training
AND you have your parents' conscious permission
(not half asleep/distracted permission)
and I want to see a severely edited version of Prince of Persia on the BIG screen with LOUD stereo sound - take out ALL the slashing, stabbing, punching, violent bloody stuff and just leave the gorgeous scenery and the amazing stunts - there will probably only be 15 minutes left after that, but an amazing 15 minutes
*I babysat A LOT when I was a kid/teen/young adult. One time my aunt and uncle came home and their kids (about 5 years old, 3 years old, and 9 months old) were asleep in their beds and I was zonked out on their lazy boy chair with my books scattered around me. When they tried to wake me to take me home, I was a complete zombie and they could not wake me up. They were going to call Mom and tell her they'd just leave me there on the chair 'til morning (and most likely deciding to never hire me again because what good is a babysitter who'd sleep through an emergency) when their baby started to make some fussing sounds from down the hall. I stood up, detangled myself from the raised foot part of the lazy boy, walked around the corner, through the hall, opened the nursery door, stepped around the pulled out trundle bed their middle child was on, and stood by the crib, humming a lullaby and patting the baby's back for awhile until he went back to sleep, then I turned and came back out to the living room. I did all that in my sleep, my aunt and uncle watching bewildered.
I remember many times as a kid waking up in the middle of the night standing by my younger siblings' crib (whoever was the baby at the time) soothing the baby and I had slept walked there.
