“Boys, guess what?” I asked somewhat hesitantly as we started our morning drive to school. After none of them responded, I cleared my throat and said again, a bit louder, “Boys, guess what?”
“What, Mom?” one of my twins asked absentmindedly while he worked to solve the Rubik’s Cube he had brought along for the drive. Ignoring the obvious sound of disinterest in his words, I continued, “This morning, I finally finished the 5K distance I had been shooting for!”
“What’s a 5K?” the other twin asked from the seat beside me. I noticed he also had a Rubik’s Cube in his hands. I didn’t know he too had taken up working on this skill. I sighed, “You know that Couch-to-5K thing I’ve been working on since mid-July? I started from no running at all and worked toward the goal of running 3.1 miles, or a 5K, which I finally accomplished this morning.”
“Oh, right,” he muttered just as my third son chimed in from the backseat, clearly oblivious to the conversation topic, and said, “Mom, are you going to start the book?”
Frustrated, I pressed play on the requested audiobook, and we continued our drive. As the sounds of
