Pat's challenge should you choose to accept it...

Pat has set a goal for himself to be walking with the walker and no assistance from another person by Labor Day.  He would like to invite anyone else who would like to set their own personal goals to join him and use him as their pace setter (Mom - he wants you to join because he wants lots of candy bars).  Daniel, he would really like you to join him since you were his first pen pal, he might have said something about a target on your back, but I really didn't understand where he was going with it. 

To meet his goal, he will be working his tail off.  This looks like:
- Walking and not choosing to use the chair in the house for daily activities
- Not taking the easy road i.e. not letting someone do things for him that he can do himself
- Always getting up to try again

- Trying something new and challenging every day

• Mom - he says his goal is to learn to vaccum with the walker, so guess what our first hurdle will be :)
• Dad - he would like to learn to shoot your BB gun from a standing position so that he can kill some of those pesky birds for you
• Hershey - he would like to take you for a walk around Dad's property without you eating any of Dad's veg
• Melissa - he will learn to put his equipment (chair/walker) in the car and get it out again

To reward himself he will:
- Put a quarter into a savings jar to use on a celebratory trip to Big Jud's
- He will do a chore with his walker for someone to earn the quarter.  Melissa will donate the quarters if people will help find chores he can do.

To join his challenge is very simple.  Just make a goal for yourself and find a way to reward/motivate yourself.  If you mess up, figure out how/why you messed up and don't do it again the next time.  Easy right?

If you don't want to join Pat's challenge, you can still show your support by suggesting ways that he can do household chores with his walker or helping us find ways to get him more mobile.