I told the girls I was going to run to the end of the street and back (words never before spoken).

Ellie quickly jumped in and asked if she could ride her scooter alongside my sprint. It sounded like a great plan to me as I knew there would be a tow back after I passed out and/or threw up.

So the next morning, Ellie who had experienced the great sprint of 2013 continued to ask Hanna, “Do you want to come on the scooter/run today? Mommy and I do it every day.” Keep in mind, the previous day was the first ever Mother-daughter scooter/run.

Hanna agreed because the alternative was to clean up rainbow loom bands hiding in shag carpet that may have already loomed themselves together into some amazing bracelets suitable for youtube videos if only we could find them all and figure out how they had fastened together using only our footsteps as weaving tools.

For the duration of the second Mother-daughter scooter/run, Ellie told Hanna how things were meant to go down.

Ellie: Oh Hanna, Mommy runs on the road (slowly) and we ride on the sidewalk but when the sidewalk ends, we scoot on the road and then get back on.

Hanna: Got it.

Ellie: Hanna, when Mommy gets too hot she takes off her sweatshirt.

Hanna: Yeah (So? assumed)

Ellie: Oh Hanna, this is the part where Mommy pulls her underwear out of her butt.

Okay she didn’t say that but the play-by-play was annoying everyone and Ellie couldn’t help but want to lead the way and inform someone of details they might not otherwise be privy to in a “I know more than you about scooter/running.”

Ellie: When we reach the end of the street, we touch this post Hanna.

This was actually an inaccuracy in her recollection of the previous day’s events because while we talked about touching a wall as a symbolic way of hitting the half way point, we never actually hit the wall because I was busy picking the underwear out of my butt and turned just shy of the wall.

Hanna and Ellie hit the wall and Ellie tripped over the sidewalk. “Oh, that’s okay, this is what happened before, you trip here and then we head back.”

Right.