This you should know about me, I would rather be outside than in. I Love the conversations about what ducks eat or why a horse bms, followed by every other animal. Most of all I love the songs, made up or real, sung to me while running. Sometimes even them just peacefully sleeping and me getting my thoughts straight. I love to jog for these reasons. There is a peace about jogging or running. We started out just going a mile or so but now we go about 8 mi some days. Our adventure in this stroller has been three years. My little monkeys were 3 and 2 when we first started out. Soon they will be 6 and 5. My monkeys have been asking for months to either walk or ride their bikes.
I just couldn't let go. Then this January my sweet hubby mentioned maybe I could give my stroller away to someone else. That statement actually confused me a little. I so couldn't think straight. What? Give my beloved thing away? Really? Wow. So a month later I thought well I am waiting until May to give it away. Until yesterday, when they got in and I thought I had a flat tire, only to realize, my monkeys are maxing out the weight limit. As we ran along they played so happily, throwing there weight around that it almost drove us off the side walk. I don't think I will get to May, yesterday was it. I tried to convince them to get in today, they begged to ride their bikes instead. I was trying to wait at least until the training wheels came off. Alas I allowed them to ride their bikes. You should have seen their beaming smiles, they are finally a big girl and a big boy, riding on the big road. I will never get them in to my beloved stroller again. I know it is a thing and its going to burn according to one of my friends, but I still love it. I am going to miss the random person saying did I see you and a stroller running? Wow. Even the butcher at Winn Dixie last night asked if he saw me earlier running up that hill with my two kids. I smiled and said yes. It is also what has kept me going, knowing that someone always sees me, so I shouldn't quit, silly I know. So good bye loved thing I hope you are as loved by your new home as you were loved at this one. I hope you may run down roads for 
at least another three years and be passed on to another momma looking for a breath of fresh air in her day. I would like to give a shout out to BOB STROLLERS, one of the best investments ever, who needs a gym membership when you have a BOB? I wish I could keep my little monkeys, little forever and they could stay in their stroller forever but they can not. My monkeys must grow which is just as sad as saying good bye to the stroller, but that is a whole other blog post. 
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