I am for sure going to hop on next week though, no matter what.
It was back to work today.
I honestly could have used a couple more days off.
I was able to type two handed today so that was awesome!
My hand is still very weak and I don't have full mobility with my fingers plus I have the splint on but I do feel like I'm making progress.
Haylee texted to see if I could drive Freya to school - she didn't want to take the bus.
She was saying her belly hurt - I think she just didn't want to go to school.
So I asked her if something was bothering her at school - she said no.
I told her how important it is that she go to school, she did relent and say that she would go but made me promise to pick her up at the end of the day and let her come to my house.
I texted with Haylee just to make sure - if I make Freya a promise, I want to make sure I keep it.
I had planned on doing a run/walk on my lunch hour but first I thought I'd take care of renewing Mom's federal dental plan.
It was supposed to be easy, just log in and click on renew - Boom - done.
It ended up being a round about thing that took up my entire lunch hour.
It was so frustrating but at least I got it done.
I did pick Freya up after school and took her to my place.
She wanted to play with Theia but she couldn't come over today so she and I just hung out, I made her some noodles.
When Jason got home, he took her for a bike ride then Haylee wanted her home for 6 so Jason took her down there.
I made a kale salad for supper - I saw the recipe on Instagram.
I don't know what the actual amounts of things were, I just eyeballed it.
The ingredients list:
Kale
Cabbage
Green Onion
Serrano Peppers
Dry Roasted Peanuts
Thai Peanut Dressing
You chop the kale and cabbage up finely in a food processor then you add the chopped green onion and peppers.
I didn't have Serrano peppers and figured they might be a bit too spicy for me anyway so I subbed in red pepper.
I happed to have some snow peas so I chopped some up and added them and also added some finely chopped red onion.
I rough chopped some of the peanuts and added some whole ones too.
There was a recipe for the dressing but I just bought some Sesame Thai dressing and I did add a bit of sesame oil just to really punch up that flavor.
The salad was delicious - I think I could eat it for days.
I think some chicken and maybe even some chick peas might be a great addition.
After my supper, I had a nice long bath.
I can have my splint off in the bath and I will do exercises with my hand in there.
Then I spent the rest of the evening working on my blog - I've gotten a bit behind.
I did not take any pictures at all today.
I also did not get all my steps in but I made a good dent.
We woke up this morning to the doorbell ringing this morning at 8 am.
It ended up being Freya and Theia, out and about already.
It woke up Eden too but Jason got her a new bubba, changed her, snuggled her until she fell back to sleep and that girl slept in right until noon.
We let her because she had a couple of late nights and we figured she could use the sleep.
Jason entertained the girls and after my coffee, I got to work cleaning the house.
It took me a few hours but I got it done.
It would kind of sprinkle on and off throughout the day so Freya and her friends were back and forth playing inside and outside.
Not only was Theia over but two other little girls came over as well.
Jason fed them all and got them set up in the bedroom watching videos on the big screen.
They had my phone most of the day so I didn't get any pictures.
Eden lately has discovered the word 'skin walker' and is always running around going 'oh no, my saw skinwalker' so Jason went and got one of his Halloween characters out of the garage and knocked on the door with it to scare the girls.
I don't think it scared Eden all that much.
She was quite interested in it though.
She wanted to have a picture with it.
Jason started working on cleaning out his office.
He was taking down all the artwork and so I did some re-arranging so I could hang some of it up in our main spaces.
I think when you frame the art it just makes such a difference.
I really like having her artwork displayed around the house.
Jen, Tricia and Gilles came to visit for a couple hours.
Rob and Kody came over too.
We played trivia games on YouTube then we all ordered out supper.
My phone was dead by this point so no pictures of that either.
They left around 9:30 to head home, they are going to come back next weekend - I'm going to do a birthday dinner for Jason and Whitney.
I was pretty tuckered out so even though I'd wanted to take a bath and do some hand exercises, I instead hit the hay not long after everyone left.
I was falling asleep on the couch.
I wish I had a few more days off but the weekend will be here again before you know it.
I did not eat well again this week so I'm skipping weigh in tomorrow because I know it will depress me but now that the cast is off, I am going to start incorporating some running into my walks.
I did manage to get all my steps in although I do think my Fitbit is counting high.
Seems like it's often the weather we get for May long weekend.
The girls came over first thing this morning when they woke up and Jason took them all down to the park.
Pushing them on the swing.
I decided to head to the city to do a bit of shopping and spend the night with my sister.
I saw the same bear we saw yesterday in kind of the same area just on the opposite side of the road this time.
I saw some cute pictures I thought would be nice in the bathroom at Homesense.
Meerkats.
The penguins are cute.
I didn't end up getting any.
I did get some puzzles at the second hand store.
Then I was looking around for a splint - I wanted one with a metal insert on both sides or at least that had full support but I could only find ones with medium support - either a metal insert just on one side or none at all.
The splint the doctor put on me is big and bulky and uncomfortable.
I want something easier to take on and off.
I ordered one on Amazon but it will be a week before it gets here.
Jen ended up actually having one at her place that she lent me.
When I took the splint off that the doctor made my hand looked so funny - Jen just laughed and laughed.
The splint felt so much better.
I'm going to borrow hers until mine gets in.
Jason's latest fairy creation.
I love it.
She has a cute little face.
He made a little moss covered house too.
Tricia, Jen and I put together a 1000 piece puzzle at Jen's tonight.
It was an image of a bunch of teacups - I enjoyed it.
We had a good sleep in then when I did get up, I had some things I wanted to do, like painting the wall to the basement.
While I was at it, I decided to go ahead and paint the front door as well.
I saw a vlogger one time that painted a design on the edge of her door and I liked how whimsical it was so I figured I'd give it a try too.
Eden looking a little feral this morning - she loves the dress and refuses to take it off and will nit let me brush her hair.
She knows what she wants and doesn't want - I just love her confidence.
Jason was heading out for a run and Eden was going with him so she got ready.
He pushed her in the bike trailer.
This thing sure has gotten a lot of use since we bought it a few years back.
It's a day early but I wanted to go to Barrhead to see if I could get my cast off.
We figured Jason could drop me off at the hospital and then he would take the girls swimming.
Our first bear sighting of the season.
Jason got a bit better of a picture than I did.
I had Freya take a final picture of my cast.
Eden and I.
I'm so glad this is finally coming off!
The girl that did it today got me set up much better than the last time.
It's coming off.
It was looking pretty crusty but not as bad as last time.
My hand still looks pretty swollen.
The nurse helped me get it cleaned up and then the doctor came and put it in a splint.
He said I had to keep it in the splint at all times and just take the splint off to shower.
Now that I'm thinking about it, he didn't tell me how long I'd have to leave the splint on so I guess that means another trip to the doctor.
I could barely move my fingers and he said that was because the cast had been covering my knuckles and it should not have been, so to try to start moving them to get them back working like they should.
It was my quickest trip yet, I was in and out in 1.5 hours.
I figured Jason and the girls would still be swimming so I walked over to the pool to meet them.
I figured I'd watch them until they were done but they came walking out as I got there.
It was really quiet in the pool, no other kids for Freya to play with and since Jason had to stick with Eden, that wasn't much fun for Freya.
So after about an hour, they were done.
They wanted to go to the park nearby so we took them to play for a bit.
They had this cool two person swing.
I think Eden really liked that Freya could swing with her.
Can I buy an ice cream miss?
Papa chasing Eden.
Got her!
Freya has recently started wearing giant t-shirts - she says it's her new thing.
She's beautiful no matter what she wears.
Eden is a people person and when she saw these other kids get to the park, she wanted to be right over playing with them.
She has mad monkey bar skills.
Little climber.
After the park, we dropped them off at Rita's for a visit - Crystal and Zepplyn were there.
I thought Kim and Emily were there too but their flight got delayed so they won't be here until tomorrow.
Jason and I went and got some groceries before picking them back up.
Heading home.
The sky was looking beautiful.
Peace.
This is the pose Eden has started making for photos - must have picked it up from sissy.
She slept at Theia's again tonight and Eden stayed with us.
