Walking in the cold wind / 寒風の吹く中を - My Actifit Report Card: November 23 2024

（日本語は後半にあります）

【English】

This afternoon, my elder son went to juku (cram school), my husband went to a briefing session on procedures for junior high school entrance examinations, and by mid-afternoon, only my second son and I were home.

My second son loves computers, and if I leave him alone, he will spend endless hours on the computer. He has been in and out of typing lessons, Splinterlands, and most recently the Metaverse platform.

Although I think that I should let him do what he likes..., I am still worried about his eyesight. So I decided to go and register my second son's recently purchased bicycle for bicycle registration for security with him. My husband bought it online and assembled it, but it was still a little big for our son, so it had been left indoors. The Internet store had sent us a bill of sale, but they told us that we had to go to a bicycle dealer where we could get the bicycle registration done.

My son was itching to try riding his bike, but the bike is an adult folding bike, so it is still a little big even with the saddle at its lowest position. However, even if we bought him a bicycle for children, he might not be able to ride it soon with his height. I feel a little sorry for him, but he will have to wait a little longer🙇‍♀️

With the wind whistling and blowing, we walked to the bicycle shop. The bicycle was slightly perverted at the handlebars, probably due to a mistake in the assembly process. I was going to ask the bicycle shop what to do to fix it, but the store clerk was unfriendly and made it difficult to ask 😅I completed the registration (660 yen) and went home pushing the bicycle with the perverted handlebars. My second son picked up a big leaf on the side of the road and looked happy. It was cold, but it was a good walk.

Juku, swimming school, bicycles, glasses... Raising children is expensive, isn't it? We have two sons, and the second largest monthly expense, after rent, is child-related expenses.

I got home and checked my step count and it was 4,000 steps; I want to reach 5,000 steps if I'm going to post on Actifit, so I'll walk to my part-time job after this!

【Japanese】

長男は塾、夫は午前・午後と中学校の出願手続き説明会で、昼過ぎは家に私と次男だけになりました。

次男はパソコンが好きで、放っておくと延々とPCに向かってしまいます。好きなことをやらせておけばいい… とは思いつつも、やはり視力が心配です。

そこで、最近買った次男の自転車の、防犯登録をしに行くことにしました。夫がネットで買って組み立てましたが、まだ次男には若干大きいため、室内に置きっぱなしになっていたものです。ショップからは販売証明書は送られてきていましたが、防犯登録は手続きが可能な自転車販売店でしてください、となっていました。

次男は早く乗りたくてウズウズしている様子でしたが、自転車は大人用の折りたたみなのでサドルを一番低くしてもまだ少し大きいのです。かといって、次男の身体の大きさでは子供用自転車を買ってもすぐ乗れなくなりそうだし。ちょっとかわいそうだけど、もう少し待ってね。。

風がビュウビュウ音を立てる中、自転車屋さんまで歩きました。自転車は組み立ての際に失敗したのか、ハンドルが少し曲がっていました。自転車屋さんで見てもらうつもりが、店員さんが無愛想で頼みづらい雰囲気だったので言い出せず😅防犯登録を済ませ（660円）、ハンドルが曲がったままの自転車を押して帰宅しました。次男は道端で大きな葉っぱを拾って嬉しそうでした。

それにしても、塾にスイミング、自転車に眼鏡… 子育てってお金かかりますね。うちは息子2人ですが、毎月の支出のうち家賃の次に大きいのが子ども関連費用です。

家に帰って歩数を確認するも、4,000歩。Actifitに投稿するなら5,000歩には到達しておきたいので、このあとのパートには歩いていくことにします！

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