November
It's November!!! I am so looking forward to what is in store for us these next couple of months, even though I can't tell the future - I just feel it's going to be great.
I was ready for November about the middle of October. Is it because my daughters have been playing Christmas music since September? (No!) Or maybe it's because the change in the weather and the colors of the leaves, have me enjoying the cycles of life.
For Halloween we walked the neighborhood for trick-or-treating with our youngest two, and some neighbor friends. Walking with friends made it even more fun this year. And the weather cooperated wonderfully. The stash wasn't as big as it has been in years past when we had 3, 4, 5 kids collecting, but there is still plenty of sugar and chocolate to go around. Little K dressed as a 50s girl, and was quite excited to get to wear make-up. The other sister went as her Dad (although he doesn't actually have a mustache). That's what she threw together in the last hours of the day before we headed outside.
The first weekend of November - the four of us joined my sister, and brother-in-law at an OSU girl's basketball game. What a thrill! There was one downside to it. We had to walk a bit to get from the car to the gym. And my leg hurt.
I went in to the doctor's office last Friday. The leg pain used to be intermittent and it got so that it was present daily. So, no more running, no more walking the dog. I went in for an x-ray this morning to see just what is going on - is it a stress fracture, or a muscle injury? I'm hoping for the results tomorrow. This decade in my life has not gone quite how I imagined it. My 40s ... my memory is going, my eyesight is going, my body isn't working the same. Can someone please return my brain to me?! I'm not complaining, so much as reeling from these changes of aging! No one told me it would be like this. Or maybe they did and I just didn't listen. The youngest child in a family often is that way .. so I've heard.
I was ready for November about the middle of October. Is it because my daughters have been playing Christmas music since September? (No!) Or maybe it's because the change in the weather and the colors of the leaves, have me enjoying the cycles of life.
For Halloween we walked the neighborhood for trick-or-treating with our youngest two, and some neighbor friends. Walking with friends made it even more fun this year. And the weather cooperated wonderfully. The stash wasn't as big as it has been in years past when we had 3, 4, 5 kids collecting, but there is still plenty of sugar and chocolate to go around. Little K dressed as a 50s girl, and was quite excited to get to wear make-up. The other sister went as her Dad (although he doesn't actually have a mustache). That's what she threw together in the last hours of the day before we headed outside.
The first weekend of November - the four of us joined my sister, and brother-in-law at an OSU girl's basketball game. What a thrill! There was one downside to it. We had to walk a bit to get from the car to the gym. And my leg hurt.
I went in to the doctor's office last Friday. The leg pain used to be intermittent and it got so that it was present daily. So, no more running, no more walking the dog. I went in for an x-ray this morning to see just what is going on - is it a stress fracture, or a muscle injury? I'm hoping for the results tomorrow. This decade in my life has not gone quite how I imagined it. My 40s ... my memory is going, my eyesight is going, my body isn't working the same. Can someone please return my brain to me?! I'm not complaining, so much as reeling from these changes of aging! No one told me it would be like this. Or maybe they did and I just didn't listen. The youngest child in a family often is that way .. so I've heard.
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